Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his veto message to Congress Bush reiterated his opposition to abortion and stated that the veto was " important in order to prevent taxpayer funds from being used for research that many Americans find morally repugnant " , but also because of the bill 's " potential for promoting and legitimatizing abortion " . |
| 2 | The curve is derived in the four-quadrant diagram shown in Fig. 4.11 where graph ( i ) shows the demand for labour function and graph ( iii ) shows the unemployment function ; graph ( ii ) depicts a 45 ° line which enables us to switch the demand for labour axis from being vertical in graph ( i ) to being horizontal in graph ( iii ) . |
| 3 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 4 | Anticipation of the decision transformed the Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro stock markets from being the world 's worst performers in 1990 to currently the best . |
| 5 | Police and ambulances turned up to see what was going on , but six bouncers could n't prevent the metal entrance shutters from being wrecked , while inside Michaela was getting a barrage of abuse . |
| 6 | Part of the impetus behind these voluntary decisions also comes coincidentally from the Ministry of Labour who argue that rationalization requires a change in ‘ the concept of labour cost from being a fixed to a variable one ’ ( Hamada 1980 p.400 ) . |
| 7 | In RENFE , centralized bargaining could not prevent national agreements , and even statutory provisions , on hours of work and overtime maxima from being regularly flouted . |
| 8 | When we responded that there were many tavern-league baseball players , yet baseball is covered as a sport , just as the average rugby player should n't stop deserving , serious rugby athletes from being covered , he snapped back : ‘ Are we having this conversation so you can pitch rugby or so you can get my answers to your questions ? ’ |
| 9 | If it is only our climate which would prevent an expanded leisure industry from being successful , we should surely look at ways of doing something about it . |
| 10 | He revealed : ‘ I 've dreamt of this moment right from being a boy-racer at the age of nine . |
| 11 | It has the advantage that current drawn by the arms of the bridge is supplied by the source and so loading of the ratio windings and possible consequential disturbance of the potential difference ratio from is avoided . |
| 12 | Apricot glaze is used for securing icing and marzipan to basic cakes , and is useful as a barrier to prevent cake crumbs from being mixed up with the icing . |
| 13 | A 1978 law already protected members of the security forces from being investigated for human rights abuses , and the then President , Augusto Pinochet , had stated in late 1989 as regards human rights that " the day one of my men is touched , the state of law is over " . |
| 14 | Yet it is doubtful whether this argument outweighs the benefits a teacher gains from being able to concentrate his interests . |
| 15 | Not unless I get a few phone calls from been here today . |
| 16 | In order to prevent the art market from being flooded , the rest will be donated to institutions , such as hospitals , who do not themselves have a separate budget specifically geared to the acquisition of works of art . |
| 17 | The British art trade would , however , like some serious fighting to be done to prevent its leading position in the world art market from being eroded by proposed EC provisions . |
| 18 | ONE MAN was arrested and scuffles broke out yesterday as protesters battled to save a line of beech trees from being felled . |
| 19 | He also tried to prevent the new grammar schools from being reserved for the sons of the gentry . |
| 20 | Chapter 5 considers other aspects of the store ; protection of store areas from being inadvertently overwritten , the use of particular store locations for special purposes , means by which the store 's apparent capacity and speed can be increased , and the use of associative and cyclic stores . |
| 21 | Thereafter each student passes before the Chancellor , who says ‘ I admit you ’ and at that moment the student changes from being a graduand ( one who has satisfied all the requirements for a degree ) to a graduate ( one who has been admitted to the degree and is entitled to the privileges thereof including use of the designatory letters , e.g. BA , MSc or PhD ) . |
| 22 | On May 18th the commissioners of Dade County , the metropolitan district of Miami , unanimously repealed an ordinance that prevented government money from being spent on promoting the use of other languages . |
| 23 | OSI/DTP embraces atomicity — preventing transaction operations from being split ; concurrency — which keeps all transactions together when passed across the network and monitor manager — which controls the transactions . |
| 24 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 25 | If when the main code is read in it becomes scrambled , this will prevent the right checksum value from being obtained , even if only one binary digit has been affected . |
| 26 | Each link is either excitatory or inhibitory , and , again inhibition is decisive : a single inhibitory input is sufficient to prevent a word detector from being activated , no matter how many excitatory inputs it receives . |
| 27 | Mr Morris says that the firefighters prompt action saved the rest of the farm buildings from being destroyed . |
| 28 | The motion changes from being steady to unsteady , as discussed below . |
| 29 | Stripped of the elaborate language of general equilibrium theory , what this criticism usually boils down to is a very simple question : if there is general excess supply in the labour market , what forces prevent the real wage rate from being adjusted downwards ? |
| 30 | In particular , they pointed to two barriers which might exist to prevent the full employment equilibrium from being reached : lock of investment and the liquidity trap . |