Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] them from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 2 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 3 | The essence of the prosecution case would have been the use by the respondent of excessive force towards two members of the family of the Murphy brothers in the course of removing them from the vicinity of a police van into which the brothers were being placed . |
| 4 | This strategy is capable of converting them from the least profitable product group to the most profitable — for a time . |
| 5 | Increasingly they felt German education to be a way of excluding them from the experience of industrial and urban life , from the totality of modernisation . |
| 6 | Then the ‘ suspects ’ are presented to the user who decides upon removing them from the analysis . |
| 7 | So tightly can Loricariids sucker themselves with their flattened mouths that their mouths would actually be torn by attempts at removing them from the logs . |
| 8 | The godly had some success in severing their connection with the church by banishing them from the churchyard , but the old festal calendar survived and the activities associated with it — mumming at New Year , dancing at Candlemas , football and other games at Shrovetide , and maypole dancing on Mayday — were relocated in and around the village ale-house . |
| 9 | Restrictions on short selling particular shares can be circumvented by excluding them from the arbitrage portfolio , and the small number of transactions required both lowers transactions costs and increases the speed of the arbitrage transaction . |
| 10 | In either case files can be pulled off the PC or Macintosh simply by selecting them from the user interface . |
| 11 | Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser . |
| 12 | In the United States , Australia and other parts of the world , deposits are secondary and are mined with much less disturbance by digging them from the sites to which natural processes have moved them . |
| 13 | The Scottish Institute has made an urgent plea to Government to reduce the legislative burdens on small businesses by freeing them from the obligation of a statutory audit , and making it easier for them to disincorporate . |