Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 2 | Secondly , as the weights are derived from analysis of individuals there is a serious problem of applying them at the level of wards or districts where the information is readily available only in aggregate . |
| 3 | The knowledge that words are read from left to right , and from the top of the page to the bottom . |
| 4 | Western blot analysis using anti-serum against expressed proteins detected each corresponding subunit of HeLa TFIIF ( Fig. 1B , 1C ) providing immunological evidence that the recombinant proteins are derived from expression of cDNAs for each subunit of TFIIF . |
| 5 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 6 | Kadet sympathizers were swept from office in the zemstvo elections of 1906 , and even the more moderate Octobrist party , dedicated to cautious co-operation with the government on the basis of the Fundamental Laws , found growing difficulty in resisting the rightward shift of rank-and-file noblemen . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , the Essex lads are out in force , no problem , but I 'm sure the hooligans who did the post offices were working from south of the river . |
| 8 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 9 | Even innocent parties were excluded from court until 1887 . |
| 10 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 11 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 12 | The data were obtained from Department of Education and Science statistics for education in the United Kingdom ( 1984 ) that included data on the distribution of full-time teachers in maintained secondary schools at the time of my study as shown in Table 6.1 . |
| 13 | The very term ‘ lunatic ’ , which was widely used in this discourse , implies a lay psychological theory : the term denotes people whose thinking is disrupted from logicality by personality or stupidity . |
| 14 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 15 | Lava is formed from magma by cooling and the loss of gas . |
| 16 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |
| 17 | Much of the methodology described in this chapter is derived from work in Dr Martin H Johnson 's laboratory , Department of Anatomy , Cambridge , during the past 10 years and I should like to express my gratitude to all members of the laboratory past and present for their contribution to it . |
| 18 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 19 | the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time . |
| 20 | At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation . |
| 21 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 22 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 23 | In the face of the administration 's intense opposition , it cut $900 million from the amount requested by Bush , allocating $3,500 million for SDI , and also insisting that the emphasis of the programme was altered from research into space-based interceptors ( the " brilliant pebbles " concept ) to ground-based rockets and lasers . |
| 24 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 25 | Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice . |
| 26 | WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol . |
| 27 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 28 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 29 | Elections for the republican assemblies held there during April-May 1990 [ see pp. 37381-82 ] resulted in the communists being ousted from power by opposition parties , although a direct presidential election in Slovenia was won by the candidate of the Party of Democratic Renewal ( LCS — the renamed Slovene League of Communists — see p. 37381 ) . |
| 30 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |