Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 2 | Secondly , as the weights are derived from analysis of individuals there is a serious problem of applying them at the level of wards or districts where the information is readily available only in aggregate . |
| 3 | The knowledge that words are read from left to right , and from the top of the page to the bottom . |
| 4 | Western blot analysis using anti-serum against expressed proteins detected each corresponding subunit of HeLa TFIIF ( Fig. 1B , 1C ) providing immunological evidence that the recombinant proteins are derived from expression of cDNAs for each subunit of TFIIF . |
| 5 | WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol . |
| 6 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 7 | Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account . |
| 8 | It is important that the world 's under exploited plants are saved from extinction as if the plants were utilised properly they could help reduce occurrences of famine as the varieties of plants are suitable to many different climates . |
| 9 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 10 | In lime-soda-softening , small amounts of the metals are removed from solution with the calcium and magnesium , and , with prior aeration , large amounts can be dealt with by this process . |
| 11 | Consider a translate instruction in which ( a ) The source and destination strings are scanned from right to left ; ( b ) Each entry in the translation table contains both a value to be inserted in the destination string , and the address of a new translation table for the next source character . |
| 12 | Star commands and their associated qualifiers are converted from lower-case to upper-case if necessary . |
| 13 | These general principles are derived from experience by induction . |
| 14 | In the autoshaping procedure , pigeons are confronted from time to time with presentations of an illuminated disc ( a response key ) signalling the delivery of food . |
| 15 | These figures are derived from Census of Population figures and produce a different total work force from Census of Employment figures . |
| 16 | where pension contributions or charitable gifts are deducted from pay for tax purposes , and keep a separate record of the amount of gross pay used for NI purposes . |
| 17 | Well I , I would n't disagree with it , but I , but I , the description is perfectly plain to ensure that effective arrangements are established from liaison between the various departments of the County Council and the appropriate organizations such as the emergency services . |
| 18 | Apart from the wide range of orientation techniques used , the fact that orientation techniques are switched from year to year within individual libraries , and the fact that maybe several different techniques might be employed in any single library in any one year , is further illustration of uncertainty in this important area of user education . |
| 19 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 20 | Materials are covered from graphite to felt-tips , to pastels — the latter not really suitable for sketchbooks , probably , but ideal for preparation for oils . |
| 21 | A family run wine bar where hot and cold meals are served from noon to 7 pm . |
| 22 | Thus numeric operands are held in sign-and-magnitude form , with the sign on the right , since operands are processed from right to left . |
| 23 | Since instructions are processed from left to right on this computer ( unlike data which is processed from right to left ) , the characters of an instruction are picked up until a word mark is reached ( indicating the beginning of the next instruction ) ; the instruction is then executed . |
| 24 | Interestingly , though , most of the audition selections are chosen from work of the last twenty years ; most young students will go for contemporary work . |
| 25 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 26 | Many lone mothers are excluded from employment by lack of jobs , lack of child care , and negative attitudes towards working mothers , and few lone mothers receive regular maintenance . |
| 27 | However , constituency boundaries are changed from time to time . |
| 28 | Many children are taken from school after about five years because of economic or family problems . |
| 29 | If emission standards are derived from consideration of air quality standards this makes the emission standards strategy really part of an air quality management strategy . |
| 30 | If emission standards are derived from consideration of the best available control technology and from economic considerations , this strategy is entirely independent of the air quality management strategy . |