Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The best measure of average grain size , the mean is computed from sizes of particles spread through a range of percentile values .
2 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 .
3 So a degree of scepticism is required from practitioners towards their own forms of thought , with their associated practices and values .
4 The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team .
5 Lava is formed from magma by cooling and the loss of gas .
6 KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job .
7 Conventional cell : The conventional cell is made from wafers of monocrystalline silicon , the semiconductor material used in microchips .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’
10 Few children interpreted the question as a physicist might , involving the way light is scattered from objects into our eyes .
11 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 .
12 The figure is adapted from Maue at al. , 1990 ( 8 ) .
13 A few yards west is the dry entrance to the caves , which novices like myself can safely probe until confronted by difficulties ; daylight is admitted from manholes in the surface clints .
14 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 .
15 Those words apply , no doubt , to suspensions which are inflicted by way of punishment : as for instance when a member of the Bar is suspended from practice for six months , or when a solicitor is suspended from practice .
16 When he has mastered this type of movement kneeling , more advanced work might involve sitting on his heels and then shifting his weight towards his hemiplegic side to practise controlling his arm and the side of his trunk while some of his bodyweight is transmitted from side to side .
17 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 .
18 The lower rate of SSP is to increase from £45.30 to £46.95 a week with the lower earnings threshold ( below which SSP is not payable ) increasing from £54 to £56 a week .
19 The scheme may well now be complete , but revision is recommended from time to time and thought must be given as to how this might be achieved .
20 Notice that this is an example of the first method I mentioned of concentrating substances on one side of a membrane : oxygen is withdrawn from solution by being bound to a haemoglobin molecule which is far too large to pass out across the lung membrane .
21 My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) .
22 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 .
23 The limit in respect of visitors ' personal effects is increased from £100 to £250 .
24 DRS/NX version 7 for iAPX-86 is priced from $500 to $1,600 .
25 In descent rock features may look quite different , distances are hard to judge and much of the terrain is hidden from view by intervening convexities .
26 In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ .
27 Selling is the most common method by which ownership is transferred from person to person .
28 There is a danger of closed-belief systems emerging in the social sciences , but this can apply to the way in which a thinker is excluded from debates about human society as well as to the strict adherence to one thinker , or type of thinker , alone , as a safe source of authority .
29 THE interest rate for Save & Prosper credit card holders with Robert Fleming who pay an annual fee is being cut from 1.69% to 1.65% a mont from December 1 , but the annual fee is upped from £8 to £10 from Janaury 1 .
30 Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings .
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