Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 2 | On Paul 's first day he arranged four appointments for our consultants with prospective clients , and has since gone from strength to strength . |
| 3 | Well I also was er , er , a producer then in the B B C and so he and I had some cheerful encounters at that time , since when he has obviously gone from strength to strength . |
| 4 | Not only is the extent of deforestation variable but the reasons why it is occurring also vary from region to region . |
| 5 | It has also benefited from protection by the Mexican government of its calving and winter grounds in Baja California . |
| 6 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 7 | As a result of this rule , and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns , the motor industry 's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth . |
| 8 | And the finger 's stood there and she 's had to stand there shaking from head to foot |
| 9 | Hanoverian Whiggery also became more divorced from association with the cause of Dissent . |
| 10 | It is hoped to issue further sets from time to time . |
| 11 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 12 | Groups of different markets ( as well as different firms in the same market ) are sufficiently interrelated also to benefit from location in London ( for example futures markets to cover eurobond exposure , or the different currency sectors of the eurobond market ) . |
| 13 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 14 | Speed also faded from view in the second half , as did Macallister . |
| 15 | Investigative journalism usually implies intensive and detailed study revealing the ‘ dark under-belly ’ of a subject already in the public domain or dragging a subject which has remained conveniently hidden from view into the public domain . |
| 16 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 17 | And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire , a feeling I 'm sure we 've all experienced from time to time . |
| 18 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 19 | Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ . |
| 20 | However , in the fifteen to twenty-four age group , many of whom had probably benefited from education since 1975 , the figures were 7.7 and 24.7 per cent respectively . |
| 21 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 22 | The Marquis of Rockingham at Wentworth Hall in Yorkshire was successful in producing flowers of Cereus compressus , the beautiful American torch thistle , which James Gordon had triumphantly raised from seed at Mile End ( See opp . ) . |
| 23 | But his great ambition was to discover the remains of the famous Temple of Artemis ( or Diana ) at Ephesus , south of Smyrna , which had completely disappeared from sight in the middle ages . |
| 24 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 25 | Charles Taylor , a former government employee who was charged in 1984 with theft of government funds [ see p. 32898 ] and had subsequently escaped from custody in the USA , claimed that a previously unknown group led by him , the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , was responsible for the rebellion . |
| 26 | Mrs Watson had never suffered from depression before and a pathologist confirmed she had no signs of natural disease . |
| 27 | The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time . |
| 28 | The violence in Belgium , India , Yugoslavia and the problems in Canada have all resulted from fear of domination by one group within the federation ( Walloons , Hindus , Serbs , English speaking Canadians , respectively ) . |
| 29 | In the Fifties the things you bought to throw away ranged from Kleenex to baking tins , from razors with only one blade ( supplied by vending machine ) to watches not worth repairing . |
| 30 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |