Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 2 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 3 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 4 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 5 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 6 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 7 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 8 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 9 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 10 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 11 | The aim to clear applications within six weeks was achieved from August to December 1990 but the backlog then rose to eight weeks as applications increased . |
| 12 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 13 | Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment . |
| 14 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 15 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 16 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 17 | At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction . |
| 18 | It would appear that , separately from the files referred to in the correspondence in December 1990 , a substantial quantity of further files were moved from London to [ a Middle East state ] . |
| 19 | Under the Conservatives the top rates were slashed from 83pc to 40pc which handed top earning executives some mighty large salary increases without them even having to ask . |
| 20 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 21 | Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence . |
| 22 | The children were taken from Orkney to mainland Scotland under Place of Safety orders . |
| 23 | The city developed chiefly after 1040 , when the residence of the kings was transferred from Gniezno to Cracow , and stone buildings began to replace the wooden ones . |
| 24 | Ten Canadian river otters were shipped from Canada to the UK , due to unsuitable crates only two survived . |
| 25 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 26 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 27 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 28 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |