Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different colours and patterns are mixed — without matching — and floral plates , rugs and prints prevent the overall effect from being too harshly geometric . |
| 2 | One thing about him struck Pumfrey as being unboyish : he seemed to be taking no pleasure from being so sensationally at the centre of things . |
| 3 | If total benefit ( utility ) derived from being in locality is denoted by and total benefit from being in is , then equilibrium occurs where |
| 4 | There is an obvious intention of preventing the Gospel from being freely proclaimed on television . |
| 5 | The New Critics did , of course , make room for ambiguity in their theory , but their stress on the organic coherence of the literary text prevented ambiguity from being genuinely open-ended . |
| 6 | This technique can be highly effective in selling , moving a buyer from being merely interested in the product to being convinced that it is the solution to his problem . |
| 7 | This does not stop the play from being brilliantly funny : but it is comedy that appeals to one 's taste for cruelty , a form of dramatic pugilism . ’ |
| 8 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 9 | ‘ It will also free taxpayers ’ money from being unnecessarily tied up in an asset which has the prospect of becoming more profitable under privatisation ’ . |
| 10 | ( To prevent the argument from being too cumbersome , there is some loose usage above . |
| 11 | It seems that several unique features — the lack of wholehearted support from other unions , the marked absence of internal unity , the militant leadership , the sheer length of the stoppage — prevented the constraints on violence which had proved so effective in the past from being fully operative . |
| 12 | There was indeed a reign of euphemism and of ostensible delicacy which prevented for instance the novel from being too explicit , bowdlerised Shakespeare 's plays , alluded to prostitution as the ‘ social evil ’ and gonorrhoea and syphilis as the ‘ social diseases ’ . |
| 13 | You now have to get , in er er , because there was a sort of erm gradation from being off ill , which was n't familiar , to being off long term sick which you ca n't have any experience of to erm early retirement on health grounds and you just ca n't have any experience of that either erm to being retired and it 's , i i it 's , it 's quite interesting |
| 14 | across the road from in n it ? |
| 15 | With the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Korean War and the release of the British documents it was evident that Britain had played a major role in the important decisions taken in the early stages of the war , and in particular the decision to change the aim of the operation from being merely to repel the aggressor north of the 38th parallel to that of achieving a unified Korea . |
| 16 | Add the raspberry vinegar , which will prevent the dressing from being too sweet . |
| 17 | What saves computing from being as big a social embarrassment as accountancy , tax inspecting and supporting Manchester United is the fact that it 's possible to make contact with other Leeds fans at home and abroad by means of the vast electronic networks which interconnect thousands of computers right round the world . |
| 18 | We are concerned that the exemption of ‘ unfinished data and documents ’ could be abused to prevent information from being properly disclosed . |
| 19 | It 's a deficiency that they have to go back to another culture , but we hope they 've got sufficient strength from being here to get through that . |
| 20 | He would gain strength from being back with his books , his bed and his little bits and pieces . |
| 21 | It may settle the other two down and prevent one individual from being continually picked on . |
| 22 | Virgin Group is expected to abandon its plan to run a train service in competition with British Rail ; the charges that would be imposed by British Rail would prevent the scheme from being commercially viable . |
| 23 | But apart from that , these women are having most enjoyment from being together as women . |
| 24 | ‘ This match is a long way from being over . ’ |
| 25 | These were a survival from his army days and , therefore , some way from being sexually provocative . |
| 26 | Apart from cases such as those we have been discussing , where the industries are nearly perfectly contestable , there are other , more traditional cases where the industry is a natural monopoly but a long way from being naturally contestable . |
| 27 | Well , it should be no problem at all but , on my Spectrum at least , the aluminium heatsink prevented the plug from being properly inserted . |
| 28 | The slick editing and second-hand New Wave tricks can not save the film from being too thin and too contrived , and rarely amusing or touching enough . |
| 29 | By custom , the legal profession is given a partial , if rather grudging , exemption from being readily intelligible in its written words . |
| 30 | Spring clips prevent the battery pack from being accidentally knocked out of the tool handle |