Example sentences of "from [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 32 | We emphasise that the service is managed by Motor Engineers and Assessors independent of the Insurance Company and no reports of these Safety Checks will be referred to your Insurance Company , so please do not refrain from availing of the service because of unfounded fears in this regard . |
| 33 | But bureaucratic and constitutional obstacles may prevent South African athletes from competing at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics , even if political objections are soon lifted . |
| 34 | In 1984 Kahane was elected to the Knesset as his party 's sole representative , but in October 1988 the Israeli Supreme Court upheld a decision taken by the central elections committee to ban Kach from competing in the forthcoming elections because of its " Nazi-like , un-democratic and racist " stance [ see p. 36947 ] . |
| 35 | The Kenyan Amateur Athletic Association barred Ngugi from competing in the national cross-country championships , which are used to select the team for the world championships in Spain on 28 March , at the weekend . |
| 36 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 37 | TEENAGER Matthew Bown is being hailed a hero for saving a toddler from drowning after the child plunged into a fast-flowing stream . |
| 38 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 39 | Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand . |
| 40 | ‘ But note that this is quite different from attributing to the Church in its established structures the dignity of being the Kingdom of Christ . |
| 41 | She was damp , she was sore from scrubbing with the shower mitt , her hair hung in rats ' tails . |
| 42 | Where 's Snoopy getting the money from to go to the Tiger 's Head tonight ? |
| 43 | The apparent lack of much volcanic activity over much of Mercurian history probably results from cooling of the outer mantle , because a planet with a large surface area to mass ratio should cool rather rapidly to fairly low temperatures . |
| 44 | The ambition was what Gains , in his autobiography , calls the ‘ impossible dream ’ ; the colour line effectively prohibited him from challenging for the world title , though he did beat George Godfrey for the black version of the championship in 1928 . |
| 45 | The Shamir administration refrained , however , from challenging for the time being the apparent PLO involvement with the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , nor did it decide to use this as grounds for withdrawing from the conference . |
| 46 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 47 | First , it must be established that sufficiently large future losses can be threatened so that , when discounted to a present value , they offset the gain from reneging in the current period . |
| 48 | ‘ You can see if there 's any disease from browning of the plant and you can see how well they 've been dried — they must n't be crusty round the edges . |
| 49 | Clients of licensed dealer Prior Harwin , for instance , welched on deals they had agreed on the telephone when the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) stopped the firm from trading at the end of 1986 . |
| 50 | Reacting against the economic nationalism of 1916 , Morel attacked ( in capital letters ! ) those who sought ‘ TO PREVENT THE BRITISH WORKING CLASSES FROM TRADING WITH THE GERMAN WORKING CLASSES WHEN THE WAR IS OVER . ’ |
| 51 | Harnessing our financial resources remains a major priority for us and despite another major capital expenditure programme , we expect to achieve a more balanced position from trading in the current year . |
| 52 | In fact , they are so contaminated with PCBs alone that , under Canadian law , their corpses must be treated as toxic waste to keep the poisonous chemical from returning to the environment . |
| 53 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 54 | While many British evacuees drifted back to the cities once the threat of an invasion had been lifted , refugee children were actively discouraged from returning to the urban life . |
| 55 | An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold . |
| 56 | In Oz David Widgery took time off from musing on the revolution to provide an obituary for Jack Kerouac , one of the people with whom the entire movement had started . |
| 57 | The steel furred to keep it from cracking in the cold , |
| 58 | These repairs were all done on the progressive system , one man and an apprentice seeing the job through , from stripping to the completed repair . |
| 59 | The proposals in the White Paper would prevent this from happening in the future . |
| 60 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |