Example sentences of "have [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier . |
| 2 | Add the two factors together , and the average mortgage payments of a first-time buyer have fallen from 30% of earnings in 1990 to 12% today — the lowest for more than 20 years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 3 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 4 | From what I have gathered from talking to other business people they have also seen an increase in business . |
| 5 | Operating profits of the Imperial cigarettes to Butterley bricks giant have soared from £955m to £1.07bn for the year to September 1992 , and this year should be just as buoyant . |
| 6 | As there is no nationally agreed procedure for disciplinary matters , procedures have differed from LEA to LEA . |
| 7 | The sum lent by Macrae is not known and reports have varied from £5,000 to £15,000 . |
| 8 | As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time . |
| 9 | Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate . |
| 10 | DIOCESAN accounts show that investments have dropped from £4,327,000 at March 31 , 1989 , to £1,851,000 at March 31st this year . |
| 11 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 12 | Since Intrum first offered its shares to investors two years ago the Stock Market has slumped while Intrum 's shares have risen from 81p to 87p . |
| 13 | Suffolk County Council has long been over-stretched on the conservation side , and comparable houses have suffered from lack of expert advice . |
| 14 | In the past , studies of Chinese management have suffered from problems of access to the inner workings of organisations and enterprises . |
| 15 | We have moved from consensus to conflict in politics : have we moved in that direction , too , as regards our constitutional order , taking that to mean the broad principles underlying the way government is organised and power exercised ? |
| 16 | Additionally , there have been those employers who have moved from site to site , merely to enjoy the subsidies that come from siting ‘ new ’ jobs in areas of high unemployment , and have left as soon as the period of the subsidy has come to an end . |
| 17 | Hence we have moved from modernism in content to modernism in form . |
| 18 | Cash is up from £16m to £24m , and net assets have grown from £145m to £169m . |
| 19 | Since 1987 , the group 's dividends per share have grown from 4.6p to 11.85p in 1992 — a 158% increase . |
| 20 | In addition , in some systems which have operated from time to time in the UK and elsewhere , there is a procedure whereby people are asked attitude questions about the product before the show and after it , and given the opportunity to select the test product ( from a list ) as a prize or gift . |
| 21 | The parasites have transferred from cattle into reservoirs and thence through the tap . |
| 22 | I have thought from time to time that I would like to write and let you know how much those lessons meant to me — and now I am ! |
| 23 | On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances . |
| 24 | The killers of Brazilian rain forest activist Chico Mendes have escaped from prison in Rio Branco . |
| 25 | The proportion of holidays of four nights and above between October and April has grown from 14% in 1976 to 22% last year , while August holidays have slipped from 24% to 20% and July from 25% to 18% . |
| 26 | The Lancashire team , housed only half a dozen miles from Old Trafford , have slipped from grace after months of political unheaval following their last-gasp failure to beat Barnet to an automatic place in the Football League two years ago . |
| 27 | Each night , for 10 week nights , BBC 2 will show a five-minute programme in which a celebrity ( previous years ' have ranged from Sting to Ted Heath ) describes the condition of a prisoner-of-conscience . |
| 28 | But those who can take a joke have ranged from children to adults - something that the Uderzo-Goscinny team had never anticipated . |
| 29 | Clinicians could perhaps reduce the transmission of anxiety to disabled or ill children by more positive reassurance and support to their parents , and by helping parents whose children have recovered from complications at birth to realise that they are no longer in any danger and can be treated like other children . |
| 30 | The interpretations given in this paper have benefited from discussions with colleagues in the Texaco Exploration Department , especially T. E. Dibb and P. F. Riches . |