Example sentences of "it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What , ’ said Diderot , ‘ you did it from instinct without knowing what you were doing ! |
| 2 | Part of the reasoning behind the move was the search for an effective policy to contain the violence within Ireland and prevent it from spreading to Britain . |
| 3 | They also expressed reservations over the concept of minority rights : ‘ Britain , for example , does not allow polygamy even though certain of its citizens accept it from their religious convictions ’ ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 : 18 ) . |
| 4 | To keep it from flowing away from you and yet to keep it going . |
| 5 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 6 | Because I see it from the outside ? |
| 7 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 8 | The Bertagni fresh pasta from Fine Italian Foods comes in controlled atmosphere packaging which , the company says , retains the texture of the pasta and prevents it from sticking together . |
| 9 | If you really want to help someone , I think you have to make an effort to suffer with them — to see it from their point of view — and then to do something . ’ |
| 10 | Allow timber containers to absorb some moisture outside first , so they do n't draw it from the fruit and cause it to shrivel . |
| 11 | Sow it from August to November at the rate of 1oz/sq yd . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 13 | A few seconds later as the aircraft gains more speed , it will need more forward movement to prevent it from unsticking with the tail-wheel or skid touching the ground , and climbing away too steeply . |
| 14 | Shapland and Hobbs ( 1989 ) consider many low status activities are effectively invisible , while Chatterton and Rogers ( 1989 ) acknowledge many cultural inhibitors , ranging from a lack of trust between the ranks to a ‘ number of deeply rooted myths about the existing police systems which protected it from criticism and disguised its deficiencies ’ . |
| 15 | The office was empty when Jay got in , and she slid her dream onto her desk with a work folder to hide it from Francis 's camp curiosity . |
| 16 | But then I realised you had joined the queue of dolour — I take it from your sparkling eyes that Lucy 's dropped her drawers and flung herself into sapphic bliss ? ’ |
| 17 | Alternatively , hold a heavy medicine ball in both hands , bend your elbows and thrust it from you . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack . |
| 19 | There is just enough décor and furniture to prevent it from looking empty , but space and simplicity are the most powerful impressions made on the visitor — what Leonard called in a different context ‘ the voluptuousness of austerity . ’ |
| 20 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 21 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 22 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
| 23 | ‘ This perfect life of yours , you really just grab grab grab it from others . |
| 24 | Calculations were taken from the original bear to produce drawings , reducing it from three to two dimensions . |
| 25 | Or is it from romantic poetry or music , such as the Massine-Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique or Balanchine 's Double Concerto based on music by Bach ? |
| 26 | Before this the slowmoving dancers in their wide spreading tutus and veiled arms have hidden it from view . |
| 27 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 28 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 29 | This is where the ‘ wake-up-a-poet-or-a-madman ’ legend is properly located — it was Mrs Hemans , I think , who transposed it from Maen Du'r Arddu to Llyn Cau . |
| 30 | These battery-operated devices fit tightly between the door or window and its frame , preventing it from being forced open . |