Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |
| 2 | In addition , it is supplemented from time to time by statements of practice or policy issued by the Panel . |
| 3 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 4 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 5 | By 1974 , however , following the collapse in the property market , land was hawked from door to door by builders , estate agents , banks , speculators and private individuals . |
| 6 | Culture , in the sense of " patterns of learned behaviour transmitted from generation to generation by learning rather than by genetic endowment " , is a characteristic of many other species besides man . |
| 7 | Malaria is primarily a disease of the blood , and is transmitted from person to person by the bite of females of certain species of anopheline mosquitoes . |
| 8 | In some systems one crane serves more than one aisle and in this case is moved from aisle to aisle by an automatic transfer system . |
| 9 | As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms . |
| 10 | Michael was saved from choking to death by David , who reached inside his mouth to move his tongue . |
| 11 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 12 | This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data . |
| 13 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 14 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 15 | It was some time before he realized that the entire Sakata factory was lit from end to end by bright , dazzling light . |
| 16 | Below the tower , clouds swirl across a grey moonscape lit from moment to moment by volcanic fires . |
| 17 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 18 | Full-time undergraduate , postgraduate , diploma and certificate students are required to pay , prior to enrolment , a composite annual fee as prescribed from time to time by the Council of the University . |
| 19 | Subject to the payment of a fee prescribed from time to time by statutory instrument , any person is entitled to inspect and to obtain copies of ‘ any records kept by the registrar for the purposes of the Companies Acts ’ ; no distinction is drawn between the rights of members and inspection by other persons . |
| 20 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 21 | The life of this normally gentle giant of a man was also punctuated from time to time by acts of sudden , often inexplicable , violence , usually associated with an over-generous intake of alcohol . |
| 22 | Let's think about the unsuccessful hospitals and , possibly more to the point , the unsuccessful ventures undertaken from time to time by otherwise efficient units . |
| 23 | The draftsman should either designate in the lease the place where the advertisement may be maintained , or grant the tenant a right to maintain an advertisement in such place as may be designated from time to time by the landlord or his surveyor . |
| 24 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 25 | Pamella is ‘ beautiful ’ , ‘ polished and well-gowned ’ , ‘ stunning ’ , ‘ stylish and fashionable ’ , ‘ clothed from head to toe by Yves Saint Laurent ’ , with ‘ absurdly innocent eyes ’ , her face ‘ a placid mask of Eastern innocence ’ . |
| 26 | Just as the coastal cities were subjected throughout the centuries to incursions from the interior by the forces of whichever power held sway beyond the mountains — Byzantines , Hungarians , Serbs and Turks — so the tranquillity of the Mediterranean climate is brutally violated from time to time by the icy blasts of the bura . |
| 27 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 28 | My friend was followed from seat to seat by a dirty old man during He-Man and the Masters of the Universe . |
| 29 | My interest in China was increased from time to time by my acquaintance with a Cantonese who operated a shoe repair shop on the High Street . |
| 30 | have been a full-time teacher for at least two years in college , polytechnic or university teaching students following a course leading to the HCIMA professional examination or such other qualifications as are defined from time to time by the council |