Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At Esgair Moel Woollen Mill all the processes of woollen manufacture are carried out from fleece to flannel
2 Jaffe believes that the spread of the disease may be connected with new preparations of factor VIII concentrate — the blood-clotting agent given to haemophiliacs — which are made up from blood from large numbers of donors , rather than one individual .
3 Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug .
4 TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation .
5 The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son .
6 From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less .
7 Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him .
8 Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia .
9 This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son .
10 Many should have been laid off from work as a consequence of the government 's deflationary policies .
11 The increasing range of new and improved telecommunications services can have potentially profound effects on future travel and home-based employment opportunities , because certain types of jobs do not need face-to-face contact and may be carried out from home by the linking of the telephone to home computers or the use of other teleconferencing , text-handling or information-retrieval systems .
12 First you will be picked up from home in a luxury stretch limo courtesy of Elegance Limousines of Waterloo .
13 You will be picked up from school by Marjorie or me or your mother or all three of us from now on. ,
14 In other words , a complete picture of the structure of competition must be built up from consideration of the location and form of the whole chain of activities that go together to make up a business .
15 Profiles of local customers could be built up from information from Training Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) , local press and radio , Chambers of Commerce , libraries , colleges , local advertising , and research agencies .
16 But even if they were to be drawn up from scratch with the express aim of reducing the level of severity in sentencing , there would still be a danger that discretion might simply be displaced to an earlier point in the system , such as the prosecutorial decision .
17 Take the kid to the big stores and they 'd be rigged out from top to bottom — all stamped PACA .
18 Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time .
19 Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again .
20 We hope the branches and members w w will believe those reports because they will be the truth , and not some of the more highly coloured statements which I 'm sure will be put around from time to time .
21 Food should be put out from autumn to the end of winter , but not in spring and summer .
22 But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’
23 Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird .
24 It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper .
25 The shape-specific polymers continued to be passed on from potency to potency even after none of the original solute was left in the solution .
26 Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town .
27 In this imagery the liberal democratic state is run exclusively by elected governing elites and/or the bureaucracy , but both groups are cut off from control by broader social movements , political parties , or socially privileged groups ( see Figure 4.1 ) .
28 Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity .
29 The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times .
30 As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries .
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