Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William 's accession to the English throne marked a return to the attitude of hostility to France , and for almost all of the following 125 years England was either at war with France or preparing for war with France or recovering from war with France . |
| 2 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 3 | The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side . |
| 4 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 5 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 6 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 7 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 8 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |
| 9 | It needs neither the approbation of ace tuner Alpina nor the motivation of an M-power badge to crack 140mph — 141–3mph on the Millbrook bowl is around 10mph faster than the old 325i could manage — or sprint from rest to 60mph in a sizzling 7.3secs . |
| 10 | McLeish was reasonably satisfied that Angela Morgan was not lying unidentified in any morgue , nor in any hospital , unconscious or suffering from loss of memory . |
| 11 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 12 | Or go from pub to pubs |
| 13 | Complaints on the left side or go from left to right |
| 14 | Complaints are characteristically on the left side or go from left to right . |
| 15 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 16 | The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones . |
| 17 | ‘ Form FLR A ’ means the form FLR A set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 18 | ‘ Form FLR B ’ means the form FLR B set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 19 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 20 | You will be sad or distressed from time to time , as the care staff who are quoted in the section on care for the dying have said . |
| 21 | Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved . |
| 22 | To be specific , do Jewish and Arabic readers have comic strips that read from right to left , as their script does ? |
| 23 | By running a marginal operation that staggered from week to week , he was unable to put together a long-term plan for success . |
| 24 | This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year . |
| 25 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 26 | Was it a political Great Fear , a contagion that spread from city to city , village to village ? |
| 27 | There are both negative and positive implications in having the test that vary from individual to individual . |
| 28 | Again , no formal theory of attention is developed and indeed it is unclear that some mechanism other than that involved in abstraction is necessary — the distinctive features of an object or event are likely to be the invariants and the irrelevant aspects those that vary from presentation to presentation . |
| 29 | The directors are probably used to the supernatural events that happen from time to time ; the very fact that the building has connections with the railways has possibly something to do with the old railwayman but in what context I do not know . |
| 30 | It was just one of those odd coincidences that happened from time to time . |