Example sentences of "it from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The virtue of the Prince must be ‘ secured , like Ulysses , to the mast of the law , in order to save it from the seductive voices of flattery and vanity ’ . |
| 32 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 33 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 34 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 35 | This evolutionary driving force was dubbed ‘ kin selection ’ , to distinguish it from the additional ( and inevitable ) shaping of an individual 's own reproductive efforts by natural selection . |
| 36 | You can get it from the frozen . |
| 37 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 38 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
| 39 | When reading a new book , approach it from the outside ( Title , introductions , index , skim reading , etc. ) to the inside ( main chapter and paragraph ideas etc . ) . |
| 40 | But it is not right for a member of the teaching staff to so present that disciplinary framework that the student is unable to view it from the outside or is discouraged from officering an alternative perspective from another discipline . |
| 41 | So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion . |
| 42 | But this was because it was one-sided , they used to lock it from the outside and there was a catch on the inside as they could put in . |
| 43 | And they 've clouted it from the outside going in . |
| 44 | She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer . |
| 45 | Given that about 7 million tonnes of surplus straw is produced each year , much of it from the cereal-growing area of East Anglia in my constituency , does my hon. Friend agree that it is an important source of energy ? |
| 46 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |
| 47 | The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation . |
| 48 | Mr Hitchens said : ‘ We did not get it from the Labour party . ’ |
| 49 | In 1557 the Tiber changed its course and Ostia Antica ( as it is termed to differentiate it from the modern Lido town ) is now a few kilometres inland and not on the riverside any more . |
| 50 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 51 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 52 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 53 | The ratio is said to be a matter of ‘ commercial prudence ’ and is said to be ‘ non-mandatory ’ to distinguish it from the possible alternative , namely , that the ratio be written into banking law . |
| 54 | Indeed , some estimates have suggested that if the Exchequer received all the tax due to it from the black economy , the basic rate of income tax might be cut by 10 per cent . |
| 55 | You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’ |
| 56 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 57 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 58 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 59 | The reason is that these colleges agreed to be pilots for a new form of subject assessment described as ‘ intensive ’ to distinguish it from the usual sampling method by which visits take place . |
| 60 | The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State . |