Example sentences of "have [vb pp] from [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many inquiries the ’ 199 ? ’ hotline has received from small businesses in Essex . |
| 2 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 3 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 4 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 5 | Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four . |
| 6 | Per capita consumption of whale meat has dropped from 2 kilograms in 1960 to 0–63 kg in 1978 . |
| 7 | For instance , the playing time per hour at Wimbledon has dropped from 7.18 minutes in the 1970's to 3.55 minutes , whereas at the US Open , which used to be played on grass , it has actually gone up slightly from 8.14 minutes to 8.18 minutes . |
| 8 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 9 | Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers . |
| 10 | Wimpey revealed that its building programme has slumped from 10,000 houses in 1986 to just 2,800 in the first half of this year . |
| 11 | The bulk import business has grown from 45,000 tonnes in 1989 to 243,000 tonnes in 1992 with animal feed , milling wheat and malting barley being the main commodities . |
| 12 | Metal Office Equipment Limited , which has operated from rented premises for about ten years , is looking to develop land at Chiswick Avenue , Mildenhall . |
| 13 | While life expectancy has risen from 46 years in 1961 to 59 years in 1977 , 20% of the infant population still die before reaching the age of five . |
| 14 | It , it came or it or it would be one of the depressions that the town has suffered from many times during the last fifty or sixty years . |
| 15 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 16 | The tribe has suffered from repeated massacres by prospectors and settlers and their land has been opened up by the construction of the Carajás railway . |
| 17 | Can the government that has been assembled around Mr Beregovoy , the man who has moved from Leftist doctrines to a belief in a mixed economy and who keeps a tight rein on public spending , still be called socialist ? |
| 18 | Her bust has reduced from 39½ inches to 35 inches ( a loss of 4½ inches ) , her waist from 35 inches to 28 inches ( 7 inches ) her hips from 43 inches to 37½ inches ( 5½ inches ) and her widest part ( around the lower hips and thighs ) had reduced by 7 inches from 45 inches to 38 inches . |
| 19 | * The British Agrochemicals Association claims that the use of chemicals in agriculture has declined from 33,000 tons per weight of active ingredient in 1983 to 24,000 tons in 1990 . |
| 20 | Pragmatism has also played a part here and when convenient the DST has been willing to do deals with other countries trading off information it has obtained from opposing factions in the Middle East . |
| 21 | The development of these compounds has arisen from many studies of the structure and function of biological membranes . |
| 22 | Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 24 | And there had been no damage to any arteries , the small amount of blood there was had come from minor cuts from the broken bottle . |
| 25 | The emergence of speech might then have developed from neural systems for motor control already lateralised to the left half of the brain . |
| 26 | It was as if the fight with Herman had had the effect she would have expected from eight hours on a contoured mattress and a course of Doc Threadneedle 's pick-me-up shots . |
| 27 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 28 | Elsewhere , much of the smooth plains material could have come from large impacts on the so far unseen hemisphere . |
| 29 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 30 | They will have disengaged from many activities in the community long before then . |