Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb base] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid . |
| 2 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 3 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 4 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 5 | Because it is open to the sea , the lake becomes salty now and again , but the salt is flushed out by the rivers that feed it from the African mainland . |
| 6 | Bell Atlantic Corp is asking the US Department of Justice to waive restrictions that prevent it from providing video programming services — it wants to provide the services across the US without regard to local access transport area boundaries of its local territory . |
| 7 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |