Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | His determination to impress Joan , to win her , made him even more tongue-tied ; his usual conversational gambit was to shift from foot to foot and laugh a great deal . |
| 3 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 4 | The Black Prince was to march from Bordeaux into the north-central areas of the country ; Henry , duke of Lancaster , planned to attack from Normandy ; while Edward III himself was also to come from the north . |
| 5 | At the same time , one introduces the idea of thermal energy , heat , and in many situations the requirement is in fact is to start from energy in one form , such as heat from burning oil , to satisfy a requirement for energy in another form , in other words mechanical energy — the turning of a shaft — so somewhere there has to be a device which converts the heat energy into mechanical energy . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |