Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period the number of book issues sampled from library authorities has grown from 3m to 10.6m . |
| 2 | But intake of other green vegetables has increased from 0.19oz to 0.50oz per week . |
| 3 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 4 | Pupils are losing out as the cost of arson attacks on schools has doubled from £60m to £120m . |
| 5 | The number with saving goals has risen from 66% to 79% . |
| 6 | But it was only when tourists and journalists began to return from Bucharest in the mid-later 1980s with photographs of the demolitions and stories about their effects on the local people that any organized criticism of the regime got under way in Western Europe . |
| 7 | Eight patients were ‘ reformed ’ drinkers having abstained from alcohol for a duration ranging from two months to several years and five of this group had biopsy proven cirrhosis . |
| 8 | She did n't seem to be concentrating on the performance because her eyes kept moving from side to side , although she sat very still . |
| 9 | His eyes had gone from sapphire to a blue so dark it was almost black . |
| 10 | The extensive range of Wedgwood jewellery has been complemented by the addition of fine bone china cameos and the collectability of Coalport figurines continues to go from strength to strength . |
| 11 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 12 | Should twelve months have expired from date of service , without judgment having been entered by the plaintiff on an admission , the action is struck out and can not be revived . |
| 13 | Hence equation ( 8.2 ) defines a price determined real wage ( PRW ) which employers seek to defend from erosion in the face of money-wage demands by insiders in order to protect their real profitability . |
| 14 | The number of youngsters sniffing varies from place to place and at different times . |
| 15 | The proportion of births jointly registered by both parents has increased from 46% in 1971 to 71% in 1989 . |
| 16 | With the break between the two concentrations , soon to be filled in by Milton Keynes and Northampton 's expansion , a virtually unbroken stretch of metropolitan areas promised to stretch from Sussex to North Lancashire . |
| 17 | Following Roman 's resignation ( or the handing in of his mandate , as he put it ) on Sept. 26 , and conciliation discussions between Iliescu and miners ' leader Miron Cosma , the miners began to withdraw from Bucharest on Sept. 27 . |
| 18 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 19 | Bedpans had gone from earthenware to papier-mâché , bottles had progressed from glass to plastic , but there was the same kindly welcome , much the same decor except that the photo of George VI had been replaced by a poster on the etiquette of urinating . |
| 20 | By early February it was clear that the skilled engineers had retreated from demands for peace negotiations into a narrowly sectional defence of their exemption from conscription . |
| 21 | The US gear filtering into Britain has been joined by Australian , European and Japanese workwear , of which the most notable brands have come from Australia via a group of Notting Hill-based boys calling themselves PIL . |
| 22 | His parents have travelled from Worcester to the hospital in Bristol . |
| 23 | Unfortunately demand vastly outweighs supply and the response thousands of parents have had from stores around the country as is : ‘ Thunderbirds are gone . ’ |
| 24 | The parasites have transferred from cattle into reservoirs and thence through the tap . |
| 25 | It is the number of operations needed to move from x to y if no tile got in the way of any other . |
| 26 | The only really significant inroad into the dominance of English in recent years has come from Spanish in the southern states of the US . |
| 27 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 28 | In a year when all other parts of the charitable sector have been hit by the drop in disposable income , environmental charities have gone from strength to strength . |
| 29 | Christians need to reflect from time to time on their faith , knowing that it is easy to be distracted from their calling to be disciples . |
| 30 | In the month since the decision had been taken that she would come to school here , her feelings had turned from foreboding to anticipation . |