Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's mother-of-three Pamela Stephenson , the woman who has made the interesting switch from being outrageous to outraged ; graduating from wicked impersonations of Margaret Thatcher to delivering petitions to the leaderene 's own doorstep . |
| 2 | For some time , Olschewski has also been trying to change the image of the German subsidiary from being a hardware manufacturer to a service provider . |
| 3 | Another possibility , at that time very speculative , was to see whether allopurinol would prevent uric acid from being formed from xanthine in man . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | This image-conscious city got some relief from being the place where Kennedy was killed as a result of ‘ Dallas ’ , a television series glorifying the pluck and greed of the oil patch . |
| 6 | Kano State Radio is the mouthpiece of the government of Governor Abubakar Rimi , which is a very different thing from being a PRP radio station ; indeed , the PRP , led by the late Aminu Kano , had the doubtful distinction of being without any mass media outlet at all during most of the period between the 1979 and 1983 elections . |
| 7 | A mine truck was always known as a waggon — horse drawn carts were referred to as carts , so Sarah was obviously in the mine — quite a different thing from being at , or on , the mine . |
| 8 | These were a survival from his army days and , therefore , some way from being sexually provocative . |
| 9 | This will drive most of the air out of the growing medium and prevent clouds of bubbles and associated debris from being released into the pool . |
| 10 | If total benefit ( utility ) derived from being in locality is denoted by and total benefit from being in is , then equilibrium occurs where |
| 11 | Different colours and patterns are mixed — without matching — and floral plates , rugs and prints prevent the overall effect from being too harshly geometric . |
| 12 | How then could the British government act to save the nodule-mining industry from being stillborn ? |
| 13 | What saves an ordinary cat from being over-mauled is the fact that sooner or later it struggles and scratches . |
| 14 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 15 | Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry |
| 16 | Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they 're wearing rugby shorts at the time . |
| 17 | A local farmer had installed a grain-drier in the immediate locality which may have prevented any such manifestation from being heard . |
| 18 | Taking their lead from Marx 's classic account ( 1926 ) of the regime of Louis Bonaparte , writers ( e.g. Miliband 1984 ; Ferner 1983 ) have argued that stalemate between classes or fractions of classes gives the state abnormal freedom of action , loosening the impact of the usual structural constraints and enabling it to prevent the interests of civil society from being expressed . |
| 19 | These measures have not , of course , stopped information other than official information from being made public . |
| 20 | Conservationists are trying to prevent the lone remaining bird from being trapped , whilst the last Spix 's macaw has paired up with a blue-winged macaw , a different bird altogether . |
| 21 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 22 | By comparison , an individual 's view of effectiveness is more concerned with personal success in his role and personal satisfaction from being a member of a team . |
| 23 | In addition , all new publications are designed for creation on the system — a subtle distinction from being designed on the system . |
| 24 | Now the identity of the further blocks was known , and it was evident that sulphonamides prevented folic acid from being put together . |
| 25 | The latter told of a hack TV gag writer ( Jason Robards Jr ) trying to prevent his precocious twelve-year-old nephew from being taken away from him by a Child Welfare Officer ( William Daniels ) . |
| 26 | There is a proviso to the definition which excepts a licence granted to premises which have been rebuilt after destruction in the same form as the previous licence from being a new licence . |
| 27 | Under French rule broadcasting had no pretensions to autonomy and so made a fairly smooth transition from being an arm of French colonialism to being an arm of the new African governments . |
| 28 | Malaria can be controlled by attacking the parasite ( with drugs or — theoretically — with vaccines ) ; by controlling the vectors ( mosquitoes ) that carry it ; or by protecting the human host from being bitten . |
| 29 | The economic situation in Zambia then and since has prevented any such ambitious project from being carried out . |
| 30 | Besides having a good time at garden parties , Folly Fellowship members have pledged to fight to preserve ’ lovely and unloved buildings of little purpose from being destroyed . |