Example sentences of "from being [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided as follows : ( 1 ) This section shall not affect any liability incurred by any partner by reason of his having notice of a breach of trust ; and ( 2 ) Nothing in this section shall prevent trust money from being followed and recovered from the firm if still in its possession or under its control . |
| 2 | On beaches , vulnerable plover chicks , not yet able to fly , crouch low and motionless , the colour of their down so close to that of the pebbles around them that their major hazard comes , not from being seen and eaten , but from not being seen and trodden on . |
| 3 | A man representing the Cape Town Censor Board arrived at the theatre bearing an order to stop it from being given because Chrimes , as the Scarlet Woman , was ‘ improperly dressed ’ . |
| 4 | Apart from being tousled and run-down , he seemed normally competent . |
| 5 | Who will join them in the Second Division is still a long way from being decided but GS Stirling enhanced their prospects of survival by beating Inverleith 2-0 . |
| 6 | One way round this is to tie a tiny hook to the hair and to bend inwards slightly the hook point — enough to prevent fish from being hooked but not enough to make hooking bait too difficult . |
| 7 | Protective measures included staying indoors during the passage of the radiation cloud ; the removal of the outer leaves and washing of vegetables , and the washing and peeling of fresh fruit ; the ban by Western European countries on the importation of fresh food from areas of Eastern Europe within 1000 km of Chernobyl ; the restriction in consumption of fresh milk and free-range eggs ; the removal of cattle and sheep from open pasture or a ban on their sale ( for example , 2.5 million sheep in parts of north Wales were prohibited temporarily from being moved or slaughtered ; Kerr et al. , 1989 ) ; the taking of prophylactic potassium iodide tablets to saturate the thyroid with iodine so as to minimize the amount of radioactive iodine being taken in ( this measure was adopted most extensively in Poland ) ; the advice not to drink fresh rainwater ; and the warning to the public about possible contamination during outdoor activity . |
| 8 | The animals have little choice about being donors , and the plastic prevents the transplant from being recognised and rejected . |
| 9 | These latter included screens behind which they could be hidden ; heavy socks and mocassins to prevent feet from being recognised if seen below the screen ; and a ‘ Donald Duck squawk box ’ instrument which distorted an individual 's voice so that it could not be recognised . |
| 10 | Will the Leader of the House explain why the Government voted against the EC directive on maternity leave which would have given women a minimum of 16 weeks of maternity leave and protection from being sacked because they are pregnant ? |
| 11 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 12 | A duration of 0 inhibits the facility from being run while a duration exceeding the repeat time or a repeat time of 0 is taken to be continuous running . |
| 13 | But this does not prevent the threat from being felt as very real , with all the consequent aggressive reactions . |
| 14 | Anthony , 48 , leaped into action to save Questa from being savaged as they walked down a street near his home in York . |
| 15 | As Macdonald points out , some subjects change from being viewed as ‘ masculine ’ to being viewed as ‘ feminine ’ , and vice versa ; she argues that this is partly the result of ‘ pressures exerted on the school and universities by the changing pattern of employment of men and women in the labour force ’ . |
| 16 | In the first year it is estimated that the new law saved 200 children from being killed or seriously injured . |
| 17 | Wall-mount your phone to save it from being kicked or left off the hook . |
| 18 | A well-known Yorkshire bogey-beast is Awd Coggie , who haunts woods and orchards , protecting the fruit and nuts from being damaged or stolen . |
| 19 | You 're sweating and nervous and you know you 're out on a limb here , you 're in the process of taking some terrible risks and the luck , the flow that comes from being justified and in tune and not taking too much for granted , not being contemptuous or disrespectful of fate ; all that 's in danger here because you 're pushing the envelope , you 're maybe relying on one or two too many things going perfectly . |
| 20 | Derek refused and they again threatened him that it was the only way to save his sister from being interned and himself from being charged with murder and gunrunning . |
| 21 | However , this combination of the two signals does have one drawback ; it prevents pictures and sound from being erased and re-recorded separately during editing . |
| 22 | Do n't wait for it Appleton if you want to save your insipid self from being punctured or badly handled all you can Do for the Better of our ESTEEMED BURMA is GET OUT ! |
| 23 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 24 | Even so , Basque autonomy was still a long way from being achieved when , during 1933 , the left 's grip on power started to loosen . |
| 25 | He argues that , even though fluctuations around a country 's equilibrium growth path are likely to be damped , random disturbances will be continually occurring to stop the equilibrium path from being achieved and to maintain the cyclical variations in a fairly regular pattern . |
| 26 | As a result , the wider human habitat , far from being humanised and ennobled by man 's agricultural activities , becomes standardised to dreariness or even degraded to ugliness ’ . |
| 27 | The established system conceived of marriage as an act of incorporation which maintained social status ; it kept the family name from being lost and the family property from being distributed . |
| 28 | Completeness in this context means having most of both proximal and distal ends together with the shaft ; breakage at the epiphyses is not counted , and damage to the greater trochanter of the femur or to part of the distal articulation of the humerus does not disqualify bones from being classified as complete . |
| 29 | Your Transport Policy Committee presumably has some thoughts on rail privatisation which are prevented from being published until the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has published its own evidence . |
| 30 | The technique is a long way from being proved but it 's given hope to thousands |