Example sentences of "it from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More money should be spent , but where they [ Glasgow District Council ] get it from is a political matter . ’ |
| 2 | What I tried to teach people was that if we did n't increase the added value , but took more of it and put it in our pockets , the only place we could take it from was the glass marked reinvestment and that makes people unemployed quicker than anything — and permanently . |
| 3 | There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse . |
| 4 | These battery-operated devices fit tightly between the door or window and its frame , preventing it from being forced open . |
| 5 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 6 | Furthermore , although it may sincerely believe it is a new party , the very fact that it has often changed its mind should debar it from being taken seriously . |
| 7 | It may be a reason why the law should be altered by statute ; it does not prevent it from being law , or affect its operation , as long as no alteration in the law is made by statute . |
| 8 | The opera was La finta semplice , but growing opposition to the project within the musical establishment ultimately prevented it from being performed . |
| 9 | A man representing the Cape Town Censor Board arrived at the theatre bearing an order to stop it from being given because Chrimes , as the Scarlet Woman , was ‘ improperly dressed ’ . |
| 10 | I knew it from being a kid , but I did n't even know the name of it . ’ |
| 11 | It could bind to the viral RNA ( Figure 21 ) , preventing it from being copied into the double-stranded DNA which later integrates into the host chromosomes . |
| 12 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 13 | Your notebook should be small enough to fit in your bag or pocket and have covers which are firm enough to prevent it from being damaged easily . |
| 14 | There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious . |
| 15 | One might argue that this feature of hypertext will forever prevent it from being convertible into cohesive linear form . |
| 16 | It is this which has helped to prevent it from being completely submerged by later developments . |
| 17 | But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical . |
| 18 | The radical elite theorists emphasized that popular participation is perfectly feasible , but collusion between elite groups prevents it from being established . |
| 19 | They say that aside from getting a few noses out of joint at Microsoft Corp , enough people felt BillyGram was a silly name and would prevent it from being taken seriously . |
| 20 | We are concerned , firstly , to provide a justification for power being vested in the state ; and then , secondly , we seek to demonstrate that there are constraints upon the exercise of that power which prevent it from being used to infringe the liberty or equality of individuals . |
| 21 | As we have seen , the power vested in the state is justified by a system of democratic government ; and the assurance that the state 's power is subject to constraints which prevent it from being used arbitrarily is found in the adherence to the ideal of the Rule of Law . |
| 22 | I have argued that company law in its attempt to establish the legitimacy of corporate managerial power has been concerned also to show that the power conferred on managers is subject to controls which prevent it from being used arbitrarily . |
| 23 | We can conclude that so far the law 's quest to subject the power conferred on corporate managers to controls to prevent it from being exercised arbitrarily has not been successful . |
| 24 | Wall-mount your phone to save it from being kicked or left off the hook . |
| 25 | Soon the bodies began to pile up here , too , and yet again the Collector and his men had to put their shoulders to the carnal barricade to prevent it from being ejected into the hall ; and yet again , as if in a dream , the Collector found his face an inch from that of an amused sepoy and thought : " It surely ca n't be the same man ! " for from this corpse 's moustache there was also a scent of patchouli . |
| 26 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 27 | Still , that does n't stop it from being an accurate prophecy , does it ? ’ |
| 28 | It was uncomfortable , but the wood kept it from being cold . |
| 29 | If the changes in connectivity which form the memory are localized to a particular small set of cells and their connections within the brain , rather than being widely diffused , then removal of the set of cells should also remove the memory — or prevent it from being formed . |
| 30 | However , the fact that there is some restriction on the power of the company to deal with assets subject to a charge does not preclude it from being a floating charge . |