Example sentences of "[vb past] from [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time anyone who did not belong to the Church of England was regarded with contempt and prevented from holding many official positions . |
| 2 | I was surprised by two conclusions that came from making such a list . |
| 3 | In their evidence to the Redcliffe-Maud Commission , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ( MHLG ) ( as it then was ) argued that it led neither to an improved speed nor to a better quality of development control : the advantages which flowed from delegating some of the work load to district councils were offset by the shortage of qualified planning staff in most district offices , by the limited range of problems which arose within any one area , by the difficulties caused by the natural inclination of district councils to take a ‘ narrow view ’ , and by the extra administrative complications that limited delegation usually entailed . |
| 4 | Just before the Calcutta Test Gooch admitted that it was only the actual cricket , and not the bit in between , that he enjoyed from touring these days . |
| 5 | As our inner-city work was mainly focused on very fine-grained differentiation , we have so far paid less attention to these more generalized markers in Belfast English , and in some cases we have not published the quantitative findings that arose from studying these . |
| 6 | ‘ He shrank from qualifying that more . |
| 7 | She was given a conditional discharge but banned from keeping any type of dog for 7 years . |
| 8 | It was remarkable that in the Archidamian War the Peloponnesians abstained from destroying those Attic olive trees which were regarded as sacred to Athena ( Androtion F 39 ) . |
| 9 | Iraq , Jordan , Mauritania , the PLO and Sudan abstained from endorsing this part of the communiqué . |
| 10 | Ann , the mother , as we have seen , refrained from sharing those galleries with her daughters or from sitting next to her husband in chapel on Sundays . |
| 11 | He refrained from taking any alcohol or drugs , but when he returned to Hollywood to commence filming , he began drinking again and was picked up by the police for drunken driving . |
| 12 | We smiled feebly and refrained from attempting any further communication with these introspective folk . |
| 13 | Some 300 of the original PUWP congress delegates also refrained from joining either grouping . |
| 14 | Although he refrained from endorsing any of his Democratic rivals , he sought to retract some of his recent attacks upon them , stating that " I have exercised political hyperbole on occasion and called them unelectable , but with each passing day it is clear to me that the only unelectable politician running for office is George Bush " . |
| 15 | I refrained from making any statement until I had the erm minutes which I received the er , agenda which I received the next day which contradict the abandonment , but if the idea was to sort of give this troublesome member from Bungay a heart attack , er it failed , cos I 'm still here and ticking , now I would like to go through once again the , the point regarding Bungay and I hope the committee will take it on board with . |
| 16 | So it refrained from inputting any of the orders it received since UnixWare 's debut until Monday November 2 . |
| 17 | It was unnaturally neat , and it carefully refrained from revealing any signs of individuality . |