Example sentences of "that [verb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 2 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 3 | Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground . |
| 4 | There are a number of characteristics in these types of market that distinguish them from consumer markets . |
| 5 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 6 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 7 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a rockier feel to Mother Earth that separates us from a band like the Heavies , ’ comments founding member Bunny . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 10 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 11 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
| 12 | As a result the public interest is increasingly defined by expert professional administrators , and administrative decisions designed to promote the public interest are articulated in a language that screens them from effective parliamentary criticisms and public debate . |
| 13 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 14 | Yet once children were taken into care , and especially if this was by a compulsory route , parents frequently felt ignored and excluded , and there was evidence that they were often left to cope alone with the practical and psychological barriers that divided them from their children . |
| 15 | They should help small farmers , but not in a way that discourages them from getting larger or farming better : there must be no farming poverty trap . |
| 16 | Something happened that stopped me from going . |
| 17 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 18 | The resemblance could be particularly close if breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive in a new habitat , or one that shielded it from parasites or diseases . |
| 19 | The shriek that jerked me from sleep sounded like Lehrathghan harpy-bat . |
| 20 | Apologists wishing to stress the harmony between science and religion may gloss over those facets of Christianity as it was that distinguished it from Christianity as they now wish it to be . |
| 21 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 22 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 23 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 24 | Mezzadri , a Swiss coming back from a knee injury that dropped him from No 26 to 305 in the rankings in 1989 , overpowered Korda with a steady flow of crushing forehands and big serves . |
| 25 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 26 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 27 | Backed by the incessant thud of a drum machine , it 's only these electric rhythms that prevent them from tumbling into disorder . |
| 28 | Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class . |
| 29 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 30 | The adaptation work should help to overcome or remove any obstacles that prevent you from enjoying the use of your present facilities . |