Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer 's money from fluctuations in interest rates , and ca n't be carried out for trading purposes . |
| 2 | Law centres employ full-time staff , including lawyers , and will handle a client 's case from beginning to end , including representation in court or at a tribunal . |
| 3 | Such a rule would prevent solicitors handling the client 's case from start to finish . |
| 4 | Mr Chuan 's progress from trading to banking to manufacturing is typical of the breed , says David Scott , the Bangkok representative of W.I. Carr , a stockbroker , and author of a study of Thailand 's nine top families . |
| 5 | erm anyone who has read the Portrait of the Artist will know the dizzying swings of feeling that chart Stephen 's progress from arrogance to abjectness , from despair to hope , from self-sufficiency , to the craving for comfort , or the voluptuousness of renunciation . |
| 6 | But it was really Ben 's story from beginning to end . |
| 7 | My torch failed , and I found my hands too cold to fix it , so just followed Charlie 's light from stance to stance . |
| 8 | Besides , there were my domestic duties to perform , such as getting updated on Salome 's condition from Lisabeth at Mission Control , and feeding Springsteen . |
| 9 | That said , Therapy ? 's move from minor to major has reaped well-deserved rewards . |
| 10 | He approached and ran the circuit detector over Quinn 's body from head to foot . |
| 11 | Other factors can alter the Earth 's climate from millennium to millennium and decade to decade , including slight changes in its orbit around the Sun , and the effects of greenhouse are superimposed on these other factors . |
| 12 | He bent over Luke , gripped his shirt with both hands and tore it apart , exposing Luke 's back from neck to waist . |
| 13 | This has obvious consequences for the use of the infinitive : since operative know evokes the following of the infinitive 's event from beginning to end through direct experience , there is no way to conceive know as existing before the beginning of the event perceived , and therefore no to before the infinitive . |
| 14 | To help a shy child , Richard Lansdown and Marjorie Walker , authors of Your Child 's Development from Birth to Adolescence ( Frances Lincoln , £16.95 ) , suggest you : |
| 15 | The official version of John Main 's transformation from watchman to tidesman was that this was a great favour to Main and would be a temporary appointment until he could again be reappointed to his duties as watchman at Inverkeithing . |
| 16 | I remember two summers ago crossing the Dales with a backpack and camping at Malham after a glorious hot day 's walking from Horton over Pen-y-ghent and Fountains Fell . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's fantastic when you think that a lot of people reckon this whole society 's evil from top to bottom , ’ says Jack . |
| 18 | The raids also mark a change in the FDA 's role from observer to enforcer . |
| 19 | The gradual expansion of the teacher 's role from presenter of information to carer was as accidental as it was logical . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal ( Upjohn , Ormerod and Willmer L.JJ. ) affirmed the decision in favour of the wife , holding the wife 's abstention from proceedings for rectification of the original deed sufficient consideration for the husband 's promise . |
| 21 | An obsessional tale of a great train 's journey from darkness to light , from sombre death to bursting life , is the best way in which the poem , ‘ The Express ’ , could be described . |
| 22 | The long aisles of trees threw Twoflower 's voice from side to side and eventually tossed it back to him , unheeded . |
| 23 | A large carafe of wine was on their table and Andrée filled up Flavia 's glass from time to time . |
| 24 | The slope of the line indicates how efficiently an organization implements an idea 's growth from origination through commercialization . |
| 25 | Conran 's transition from manufacturing to retailing was a gradual process . |
| 26 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
| 27 | Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin announced at official talks later on March 4 that Turkey would extend loans and would help with Uzbekistan 's conversion from Cyrillic to Roman script , and that Uzbek banknotes would be printed in Turkey . |
| 28 | Ellwood yanked the rod back for another blow and the barb tore a strip of meat out of Carey 's face from nose to eye . |
| 29 | The fight , in which one Sardinian had slit another 's throat from ear to ear without succeeding in killing him , had been the last straw and had resulted in an unprecedented outburst of anti-Sardinian feeling that involved not just the affected area but the whole city . |
| 30 | After only a few minutes ' discussion , Hill and Branson agreed a transfer of the Sex Pistols ' contract from EMI to Virgin , conditional , of course , on the agreement of the group 's manager , Malcolm McLaren . |