Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |
| 3 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
| 6 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
| 7 | The number of visitors is increasing from year to year but at the peak of the holiday season this is causing more congestion and overuse of the landscape . |
| 8 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 9 | Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind . |
| 10 | Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account . |
| 11 | It was the day for the sale of sheep , and we saw many little lots under the guardianship of shepherds and collie dogs ; eager buyers were going from group to group , judging their respective merits — now taking a hold of a sheep to feel his weight , and noting the quality of his fleece . |
| 12 | Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive . |
| 13 | Gary Player insisted that Ballesteros was suffering from paralysis by analysis , that he was no longer sure of his fundamentals . |
| 14 | But the tracer was weaving from side to side . |
| 15 | While the beam was going from right to left , the target moved forward . |
| 16 | At the end of the lesson , Katharine was beaming from ear to ear . |
| 17 | The Crawfords were living from week to week , and soon the Rolls-Royce had to go . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century the Gunton Park was essentially a dairy herd and here the emphasis on a good milk yield at 4 per cent butterfat continued into the 1930s and 1940s , when the rest of the breeders were changing from dairy to dual-purpose types . |
| 19 | Palatine is going from strength to strength as an independent . |
| 20 | Finally , the Rampton/Swann statistics themselves provide evidence that the educational achievements of Afro-Caribbean children and young people are increasing from year to year at a higher rate than those of other groups . |
| 21 | When people are fleeing from fear of imprisonment , torture or death , they will use any means available to reach a safe country . |
| 22 | A new temperance movement is spreading from state to state , to the alarm of brewers and distillers , and of some in government . |
| 23 | Shock attack : An 80year-old woman is recovering from shock after coming face to face with a burglar who stole jewellery from her Wirral home in Spencer Avenue , Rock Ferry . |
| 24 | Professionally , Crawford 's career was going from strength to strength , and his association with film director Richard Lester continued with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 25 | Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly . |
| 26 | As these events were unfolding we were finding that our Partnership 's lifestyle magazines were going from strength to strength . |
| 27 | Mr Crangle was grinning from ear to ear . |
| 28 | Mr Crangle was rushing from place to place checking the details of his plan . |
| 29 | These men were walking from work-house to work-house . |
| 30 | And in the secret garden , where the roses were at their best , and the butterflies were flying from flower to flower in the summer sunshine , they told Colin 's father their story . |