Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [be] [adj] " 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 | These form today 's big stick : their owners hope that , by possessing the ability to kill tens of millions of people and destroy the fabric of modern industrial society , they will prevent an enemy from being stupid enough to risk all by waging all-out war . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How then could the British government act to save the nodule-mining industry from being stillborn ? |
| 5 | Any impairment of consciousness from being drowsy and lethargic to total unconsciousness . |
| 6 | The breadth of his studies helped keep his poetry from being parochial . |
| 7 | The client server software architecture from was revolutionary . |
| 8 | Nothing in section 13 is to prevent an act from being actionable in tort on a ground specified in section 13(1) where ( a ) the contract interfered with in respect of which the action is brought is not a contract of employment and ( b ) there has been secondary action which does not satisfy the requirements of section 17 . |
| 9 | He helped to keep atomism from being prominent in French syllabuses ; but in Britain , atomic theory and the models with balls and wires which expressed it ( then called ‘ glyptic formulae ’ ) became an important part of elementary science , whatever the doubts of the eminent . |
| 10 | ‘ I would like the public to have a crusade against crime and change their attitude from being forgiving of crime to being considerate of the victim , ’ he said . |
| 11 | They prevent most of the underclass from being able to free themselves from welfare dependency . |
| 12 | A source close to the Clinton campaign said the idea is to bring the Bush rumours into the open ‘ to counter what 's already happened , then get this all out there , out of the way , enough to prevent the campaign from being preoccupied with these questions , then to prevent the Republicans , who are very good at it , from taking this low road ’ . |
| 13 | He widened the faculty from being Anglican to being for all denominations . |
| 14 | Yet suspecting that a disease is linked to diet is a far cry from being able to identify the item of diet that has toxic or pathogenic properties . |
| 15 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 16 | They imply also that the organization is prepared to make more mistakes , but to carry the consequences in view of the greater benefits to the organization as a whole from being action-oriented . |
| 17 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a change from being stuck in Abingdon ! |
| 19 | Both judges of the Divisional Court , Cave and Wills JJ. , considered that the mere existence of the power to cut off the water supply without any threat to exercise that power did not prevent the payment from being voluntary . |
| 20 | She always knows me Auntie Jean because me Auntie Jean what favourite from being young |
| 21 | Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they 're wearing rugby shorts at the time . |
| 22 | I have cited these passages in order to illustrate the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and the important , if obvious , fact that the owner 's consent to transfer the property prevents the offender from being guilty of larceny , although the consent was obtained by fraud and , in the words of Megaw L.J . |
| 23 | Thus the ‘ immigrants ’ and the ‘ refugees ’ together transformed the British urban environment from being monolingual and monocultural to being multilingual and multicultural . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | … assertiveness skills help to focus the emphasis of the request on the specific problem , and prevent the asserted comment from being aggressive or intensely personal . |
| 26 | Giant Tortoises have suffered in the past from being conveyable fresh meat parcels for sailors . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's OK , I can deal with it ; I 'm all for a good fight , especially with you as my opponent — it keeps life from being dull . |
| 28 | As it is , they create a culture that compensates for life at work ; a myth system that draws its sustenance from being separate from the culture of management . |
| 29 | Last September the company changed its status from being able to handle client money to only offering advice on personal finance products . |
| 30 | Do you think that there was a changeover from being practical , I mean can you remember seeing that transition from the very practical shade to the , to , to the light fitting becoming something decorative ? |