Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [adj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parties may sometimes want the transfer to be effective from a date before the completion date , particularly if there is likely to be a long delay while consents are sought . |
| 2 | The Piaroa daily express to one another their right to private choice and their right to be free from domination over a wide range of matters , such as residence , work , self development , and even marriage . |
| 3 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 4 | Guilt is a sign of our refusal to love ourselves , a symbol of our desire to be separate from All That Is . |
| 5 | It is generally recognised at Community level that it is both inequitable and contrary to the objectives of a single market for certain firms in the Community to be immune from the commercial benefits and burdens of being taken over or to be able artificially to create methods to defend themselves from takeovers , while firms from other member states remain vulnerable . |
| 6 | An individual 's personality is the sum total of those traits which define his or her individuality , and which cause one person to be different from another . |
| 7 | In its Working Paper No. 22 , the Canadian Law Reform Commission stated that one of its objectives was to ‘ direct attention away from rape as a sexual offence and towards the right of every person to be free from physical assault . ’ |
| 8 | The archers loosed blind in the darkness , but could do so only once without imperilling their friends , for after the shock of meeting it was stark hand to hand work without any daylight art about it , first a hacking and swinging ahead at any flesh that moved , then body to body fumbling where everyone panted out words in his own tongue to be safe from his comrades , and even swords were of little use . |
| 9 | The case is one more illustration of the extreme technicality of the law relating to the sentencing of juveniles , and the need to simplify the provisions governing the relationship between two forms of detention which are likely at least in this type of case to be indistinguishable from each other in their implementation . |
| 10 | In such cases the draftsman should provide for the costs of periodic maintenance and inspection to be recoverable from the tenants , for they may not always fall within a provision to pay the cost of repairs . |
| 11 | Rather like Mussolini 's ‘ improvement , of the approach to Saint Peter 's in the 1930s , the Conducator wanted the full glory of the building to be evident from a distance . |
| 12 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
| 13 | He wore a bow tie , a corduroy jacket , and suede shoes and appeared to Millet to be well-distanced from any workshop floor . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a new partner , ’ he announced proudly , ‘ who sold his own tavern near the Barbican and moved across the river to be free from the prying of certain coroners ! ’ |
| 15 | You expect reality to be different from imaginings . ‘ |
| 16 | The Policyholder 's Doctor may indicate how long he expects his patient to be absent from work but normally every claim will have to be looked at individually and an appropriate estimate advised to I.S. As benefits are paid at four-weekly intervals , at least four weeks benefit must be estimated . |
| 17 | In 1561 he received a royal dispensation to be absent from his Durham prebend to finalize a map of England ‘ both fairer and more perfect and truer than it hath been hitherto ’ . |
| 18 | We may also note that it is possible for the word instantiating the subordinate element to be otiose from the point of view of the speaker or hearer or both ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 19 | He expected the full year contribution to be unchanged from £143m . |
| 20 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 21 | Mr Major and Mr Kinnock have said they will attend the summit , and Downing Street officials were consulting the history books yesterday to see whether there are any precedents for the Prime Minister to be absent from the traditional spot on a stand in Horseguards Parade with foreign dignitaries . |
| 22 | They should also be sufficiently distant from the continental rise and slope to be safe from ‘ slumping ’ . |