Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacing the present legal aid system — which costs the Treasury about £410m a year — with a specific tax would protect public legal services from spending constraints which had prevented legal aid from being extended . |
| 2 | This would remove 90pc of all criminal legal aid from being assessed . |
| 3 | It is important , as I have said , that all practicable steps be taken to prevent violence from being encouraged across the frontier . |
| 4 | The substance inside is probably some form of resin to stop the rattle from being dented too easily . |
| 5 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 6 | Nor will he necessarily be able to prevent his share of the equity from being diluted even if he is offered pre-emptive rights ; he may not be able to afford to buy more shares but can not prevent the new issue being made unless he has voting control . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unhappy about losing 80 per cent of their profits on Virgin acts , but unwilling to surrender 10–20 per cent , most foreign companies accepted the switch from being licensees to being distributors . |
| 9 | My nightmare is trying to concentrate on a guest while really wondering at what point I can break off the conversation to same some dish or saucepan from being welded to the oven forever . |
| 10 | The Extraditables subsequently claimed that they had decided to spare her life but had been unable to prevent her murder from being carried out . |
| 11 | Following the safety line up to your guide boat seems to be the best possibility , but only if the line has not been cut on the sharp edges of the ice , or if the boat tender has not had to release the safety line to keep his boat from being capsized or dragged under the iceberg . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In both books , neither community were prepared to give the outsiders a chance , it 's their obvious ignorance and old ways which prevent their neighbourhood from being a complete one . |
| 14 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 15 | Different colours and patterns are mixed — without matching — and floral plates , rugs and prints prevent the overall effect from being too harshly geometric . |
| 16 | This gives rise to the possibility that such an investigation could be used by the union as a stalling facility to prevent the applicant from being assisted by the Commissioner . |
| 17 | They also made such one-off comedies as The Green Man ( 1957 ) , in which a vacuum cleaner salesman sets out to prevent a sour-faced captain of industry from being blown up . |
| 18 | How then could the British government act to save the nodule-mining industry from being stillborn ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This surplus is the effect of the radical alterity of the other , whether as ‘ face ’ or as death , which prevents the totality from being constituted as such . |
| 21 | But can he make a living from being a lookalike ? |
| 22 | At that stage I was up to my sticky-out ears in Shetland 's music scene , and still harbouring a yearning to make a living from being a boring-but-sometimes-funny singer-songwriter . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 25 | Any impairment of consciousness from being drowsy and lethargic to total unconsciousness . |
| 26 | And as well as the injury caused by hooking , they suffer distress from being hauled out of the water and handled . |
| 27 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 28 | Only the threat of revolution and the defeat of Germany prevented the plan from being put into action , but it was a plan that was to surface again under the Nazis . |
| 29 | The breadth of his studies helped keep his poetry from being parochial . |
| 30 | Writing in 1918 , but with a little more subtlety , J. Dover Wilson advised that the War had transformed work from being ‘ a meaningless drudgery ’ into something meaningful , because it brought about ‘ a common purpose ’ , which needed to be continued by encouraging workers to regard ‘ production ’ not as ‘ forced labour ’ , but as ‘ a social service ’ . |