Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Public Interest Immunity , signed by the Northern Ireland Secretary , Sir Patrick Mayhew , would prevent identification of the soldiers whose evidence would be restricted and be given from behind screens . |
| 2 | A Public Interest Immunity signed by the Northern Ireland Secretary , Sir Patrick Mayhew , would prevent identification of the soldiers , whose evidence would be restricted and be given from behind screens . |
| 3 | Under sail the yacht can be enjoyed from behind the wheel in the spacious cockpit , or when the weather gets nasty there is a second steering station with complete instrumentation and controls under the dodger . |
| 4 | This can not be done from behind a desk as it requires direct observation of the operation , sometimes for an extended period , to find out what is actually done on site as well as what should be done . |
| 5 | Power was to be exercised from behind a veil , as the wilder type of Indirect Ruler aspired to do . |
| 6 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |
| 7 | But he 's not alone , and Wright should look at every other striker in the land being kicked from behind every Saturday — they all have their problems , but do n't act like him . |
| 8 | Intermediate-level waste covers disposable parts of the plant 's insides , such as filters used to clean routine discharges into the air or sea , ‘ glove boxes ’ where materials are handled from behind glass by remote control , or the metal canisters which surround the uranium fuel . |