Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 3 | Lava is formed from magma by cooling and the loss of gas . |
| 4 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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this is an example of the first method I mentioned of concentrating substances on one side of a membrane : oxygen is withdrawn from solution by being bound to a haemoglobin molecule which is far too large to pass out across the lung membrane . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Selling is the most common method by which ownership is transferred from person to person . |
| 19 | A. Plasmids used in this experiment : a ) expression vector with oct-2 cDNA ; b ) expression vector with N-Oct 3 cDNA ( identical with plasmid IV , Fig. 3B ) ; c ) expression vector with N-Oct 5 cDNAs ( identical with plasmid V , Fig. 3B ) , d ) β-globin test gene plasmid with the octamer site ( symbolized by 8 ) in 5 bp distance to the TATA-box ( symbolized by T ) and downstream located SV 40 enhancer ; e ) the same plasmid but the octamer site is mutated from ATGCAAAT to CTGAACAT ; f ) truncated β-globin reference gene ; g ) radioactive antisense RNA probe spanning positions -37 to +179 of plasmids d and e . |
| 20 | He designed the Palazzo del Tè , Mantua , in 1525 , and decorated it with frescos ; in the Sala de' Giganti the room is painted from floor to ceiling , so that the spectator feels overwhelmed by the rocks and thunderbolts hurled down by the rebellious Titans . |
| 21 | Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself . |
| 22 | The old type of gravity filter is rarely found nowadays , and most works use pressure filters containing beds of graded sand , coarse at the bottom and fine at the top , through which the water is pumped from top to bottom . |
| 23 | The ad hoc collection of topics is saved from nonentity by the stature of the contributors ; especially Daniel C. Dennett , who both contributes the interesting paper ‘ Making sense of ourselves ’ and whose important ideas on intentionality are well described and discussed by Stephen Stich , and by Paul and Patricia Churchland and Colin McGinn . |
| 24 | A ball is thrown from player to player and the person in the middle must try to intercept it . |
| 25 | By increasing the capital stock until its maximum output is Q 2 society can gain the area of the triangle ABE , which reflects the excess of marginal benefit over marginal cost when output is increased from Q to Q 2 . |
| 26 | Palatine is going from strength to strength as an independent . |
| 27 | Mathematical knowledge is transmitted from teacher to pupil ; telling , showing and explaining are the order of the day . |
| 28 | In reality , the theory of wealth ‘ trickling down ’ does not work and the farce of a ‘ representative ’ rather than a delegated democracy means that a high price is extracted from society for the ‘ freedom ’ on offer , since social cohesion and environmental safeguards are no necessary part of the legislative framework which allows capital to keep on growing . |
| 29 | A feature of the stimuli is that the widths of the stripes within each pattern are random and that the arrangement of stripes is changed from trial to trial . |
| 30 | Both , but this one next door Bev is pushed from pillar to post |