Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1955 the new British Conservative premier , Anthony Eden , took the lead in salvaging something from the wreck of EDC . |
| 2 | The lesson of that election was that only an alliance of all those who stood to the right of the Socialists could succeed in easing them from power . |
| 3 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 4 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 5 | Our young men were quick-tempered , and i have had great trouble in keeping them from doing rash things . |
| 6 | Her mother said : ‘ The trouble we had in keeping it from you , Jessica . |
| 7 | Operators who have their tachograph charts analysed by an outside agency need to be careful about exactly what it is they are buying and whether it meets their requirements in protecting them from breaches of the law by their employees and agents . |
| 8 | They are responsible for the complete replication of the extreme ends of chromosomal molecules and contribute to chromosome stability in protecting them from exonucleolytic degradation and end to end fusion events ( 2 ) . |
| 9 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 10 | Society has an interest in protecting itself from activities which threaten to undermine the harmony within it . |
| 11 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 12 | To my acute embarrassment , the children seemed far more interested in meeting someone from television . |
| 13 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
| 14 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 15 | This is one of the main reasons why it is now considered to be such an important protective factor in saving us from diseases of the bowel , like cancer . |
| 16 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 17 | Dávila , however , was a bully , a cruel and insecure man whose constant attacks on the Indians succeeded in turning them from ‘ sheep ’ , as Balboa called them , into ‘ fierce lyons ’ . |
| 18 | It was never in dispute that her action in removing them from Australia was unlawful in the context of article 3 of the Convention . |
| 19 | They assist their parents in feeding their new younger brothers and sisters and in defending them from predators such as snakes . |
| 20 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 21 | ‘ Let me not tire of thanking you , ’ he wrote , ‘ for your mercy in rescuing me from all my wicked ways . ’ |
| 22 | If the advantages of the relative detachment of non-executives are to be maximised , there is merit in distancing them from non-contractual issues involving directly managed units . |
| 23 | There was speculation that in distancing himself from the Khmers Rouges , Sihanouk was acting with the approval of the Chinese government . |
| 24 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 25 | He had assisted in lifting her from the floor of Willi Zimmermann 's living room when she was blindly unconscious . |
| 26 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 27 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |
| 28 | In relation to our " design-and-society " problem , design , in rending itself from the social fabric and attempting to construct itself as an independent discipline — and having constructed its own pantheon of values and principles with only tangential relation to the social — becomes , quite literally , socially unintelligible . |
| 29 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 30 | In freeing themselves from this burden they may need to make their escape into another language or culture , even by establishing geographical distance over thousands of miles of ocean . |