Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now make another table of what you expect from your house , and award points from one to ten in the same way : |
| 2 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 3 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 4 | Designs ranged from one to six . |
| 5 | Well , Adolph , it certainly was a real pleasure to hear from you after all these years . |
| 6 | Words flowed from him in effervescent abundance , ranging from lengthy essays , autobiographical fragments and provocative tirades to witty or angry letters to magazines or newspapers . |
| 7 | I have given back to the Reich the provinces stolen from us in 1919 . |
| 8 | Mobility increased too , as ownership of cars increased from one per ten people in 1960 to one per 3.2 at the end of 1987 , or 0.85 per household . |
| 9 | Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . |
| 10 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 11 | This tells us two things : there is a conception of what amounts to trust wording ; but there is a willingness to depart from it in certain circumstances . |
| 12 | A log jam at Barashevo , as if this forgotten end of the world was a metropolis of movement and then he looked again at the huddle of prisoners separated from him by two lines of uniformed guards . |
| 13 | Our philosophy differs from theirs on this point . |
| 14 | Table 6.4 shows the expected percentage of overflow records when records are randomized to buckets containing from one to 600 records . |
| 15 | Any debris dislodged from them by hydraulic action sinks to the depths and can not be used by the waves to attack the cliffs . |
| 16 | A variation on the ring topology is the ‘ star ’ topology , where either the file server or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation . |
| 17 | A star topology is where the file server ( or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box ) sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation |
| 18 | The number of vehicles recorded at a junction ranged from none to 105 , mean 10.4 . |
| 19 | So , for example , in the national survey of retirement conducted in 1977 , between the age groups of 50–9 and 60–73 , the proportion of women in junior and intermediate non-manual socio-economic groups fell from nearly half to nearly one-third , while the proportion in the unskilled group rose from one in ten to nearly one in four ( S. Parker , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | In the mainly rural Wessex region , prosecutions increased from one to 28 . |
| 21 | Isobel ran from one to another , touching the gleaming coachwork , the glittering chrome . |
| 22 | Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards . |
| 23 | What products pass from one to another and why ? |
| 24 | The picture which emerges from this kind of work highlights collective action and collective advantage , but often says little about whether all the individuals involved in this enterprise benefited from it in equal measure . |
| 25 | But a report on nine of the 80 homes has uncovered a ratio varying from one in 20 to one in 38 . |
| 26 | If you have more space , you could create a series of pools with the water falling from one to another until it reaches the lowest in a continual cycle . |
| 27 | During the 1980s the participation of 18-year-olds in higher education doubled from one in eight of the population to one in four . |
| 28 | Those people of prehistory differed from us in one important respect : they did not possess the huge databank of past discoveries which we do . |
| 29 | The restaurant awnings bulged with water as diners dodged from one to another . |
| 30 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |