Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off .
2 Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order .
3 Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived .
4 SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel .
5 Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London .
6 TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday .
7 Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized .
8 The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits .
9 Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years .
10 Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland .
11 For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers .
12 Corporate overheads in the first half were cut from $8m to $7.7m , and total operating income rose from $13.3m to £16.2m .
13 To attract more businesses , the maximum fees for company registration were cut from £50,000 to £5,000 and a 10 p.c. rebate on employers ' national insurance contributions was introduced .
14 The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such .
15 Losses per share were cut from 137.01p to 83.1p , but there is again no dividend and the shares dipped 0.5p to 7p. — PA
16 Like the captured enemy patrol , Grant and Larsen were dressed from head to foot in dark clothing , only in their case it was less military in style .
17 A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus .
18 Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment .
19 Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses .
20 The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m .
21 Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral .
22 ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village .
23 At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction .
24 It would appear that , separately from the files referred to in the correspondence in December 1990 , a substantial quantity of further files were moved from London to [ a Middle East state ] .
25 Over more than 60 years , an estimated 150,000 children including some from Merseyside were shipped from Britain to distant parts of the Empire .
26 Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope .
27 Under the Conservatives the top rates were slashed from 83pc to 40pc which handed top earning executives some mighty large salary increases without them even having to ask .
28 Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany .
29 Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps .
30 Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence .
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