Example sentences of "from [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from seeing a midweek game as a hindrance immediately before a big FA Cup tie , Kettle insisted : ‘ We are getting too far behind Morecambe , who have played six games more than us , and I thought it was important to play it . ’ |
| 2 | For this reason I am not averse from seeing a sharpening of sentencing policy within the present law . |
| 3 | Bearing this in mind can help to bring cantata performances to life , for it liberates one from seeing a cantata as a mere succession of recitatives and airs . |
| 4 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 5 | It was further revealed that after their arrest the Clarkes had been prevented from seeing a lawyer for two days . |
| 6 | He is primarily task-orientated , and gains satisfaction from seeing a task performed . |
| 7 | Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down . |
| 8 | Seven out of the forty women specifically mention the pleasure they obtain from seeing a line full of clean clothes ; some explain it is because they anticipate the silent admiration of neighbours at this visible ( though shortlived ) achievement . |
| 9 | One such situation is a sale under which the purchaser pays nominal consideration but assumes significant liabilities ; ( b ) imposing a time limit beyond which , except in cases of fraud and dishonesty , the purchaser is time-barred from bringing a claim ( see clause 14.1 of the standard sale agreementAppendix III ) . |
| 10 | His most bitter disappointment came when the music entrepreneur Phil Spector pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written called The Last Movie ( it was eventually produced in 1970 ) about Hollywood 's exploitation and destruction of South American Indians . |
| 11 | For instance , it would be unlawful for the home secretary to require broadcasters to refrain from including a notice drawing attention to the ban . |
| 12 | At least there was nothing to prevent me from enjoying a fantasy or two , now and then , while waiting . |
| 13 | For 5 years , deafness has prevented Ray Isles from using a telephone . |
| 14 | Like many local authorities , the minutes of the meetings of Croydon Council and its sub-committees are accessible to Councillors and Officers in electronic from using a text retrieval system . |
| 15 | In addition , however , this type of text tends to favour a high level of lexical repetition , and so the Arabic noun for ‘ parties ’ , which is marked for duality , is repeated even in instances where no ambiguity would arise from using a pronoun or pronominal suffix . |
| 16 | The special isolation of a naval captain means that an author looking for a confidant for his hero as an essential device of character-drawing is debarred from using a member of the ship 's company . |
| 17 | This practice was divorced from using a potty and may also indicate the reason for the difference in attitude . |
| 18 | Such an ‘ abuse ’ was exemplified by the courts in Wheeler v. Leicester City Council where the City Council ( which had adopted an anti-apartheid policy ) banned the Leicester Rugby club from using a Council recreation ground because three members of the club had joined an English touring side to South Africa . |
| 19 | It has been observed that some people switching from using a typewriter to a personal computer can gain up to half a stone a year because they no longer have to get up to consult filing cabinets ; and the same effects can be observed when people use remote-control television , extension phones , lifts and dishwashers . |
| 20 | Hence from using a dictionary one could determine that hot dog bears little relation to canines . |
| 21 | State provision of toll goods is justified on efficiency grounds if exclusion is relatively costly to enforce or too little of the good is consumed because people are excluded from using a good which is non-rivalrous in consumption . |
| 22 | If your knee is still unstable ( ask your specialist , GP or physiotherapist ) then you may benefit from using a Lenox-Hill brace but remember : |
| 23 | Evidence that the cost of a solicitor 's advice ( together with fear about cost ) and the relative inaccessibility of many offices combined to deter large sections of the community from using a solicitor led to speculation about the degree of ‘ unmet legal need ’ which exists . |
| 24 | In Lament , quite apart from using a melee of ancient East/West instruments and sounds , and these in tiny shreds and smudges , he creates instrumental theatre , manipulating the stillness by confounding our expectations . |
| 25 | Only acrobatics from teenage keeper Declan Devine prevented Smith from completing a hat-trick before the break . |
| 26 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 27 | The bewildering lack of certainty and clarity in the law which these cases illustrate is clearly undesirable for victims and may deter some from pursuing a complaint . |
| 28 | John McFall , Labour 's Scottish rural affairs spokesman , said : ‘ Ministers were not prepared to give a pledge that there would be no further measures of this kind which ban fishermen from pursuing a centuries long tradition . |
| 29 | The Commission on Oct. 13 barred a French industrial consortium led by the steel manufacturer Pechiney from accepting a state offer of cut-price electricity . |
| 30 | But it does , you are not precluded from allowing a youngster to write on a report . |