Example sentences of "been [vb pp] from the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a rough railway that had been built from the plant to an almost worked-out pit . |
| 2 | Part of this , namely FGNM , is part of the lost tariff revenue which has been transferred from the government to domestic consumers , therefore a net welfare benefit equal to the areas RFM & SGN is gained . |
| 3 | Having entered Royal Navy slang in this way the word could quite reasonably have been transferred from the specimen to the specimen collector , and , its origin forgotten , its vowels might equally reasonably have undergone a sea change making boffin out of buffon . |
| 4 | From this it follows that a degree of decision-making power about how society 's resources should be used has been transferred from the market to the enterprise . |
| 5 | They had been moved from the prison to Avicennes hospital in June after a serious deterioration in their condition . |
| 6 | Despite their size , or perhaps because of it , many saguaros have been stolen from the desert to be sold , at huge prices , to ornament smart Californian gardens . |
| 7 | For a few moments , I wondered if the sand and shingle had been brought from the coast to be used as a road surface , then I doubted my sanity in thinking that anyone would bring sand to the Sahara . |
| 8 | Carefully and with love the nest full of eggs and the dozy hen sitting on them had been removed from the wild to a neat little coop in civilization and safety , every convenience for the hatching mother attended to with particular care . |
| 9 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 10 | In this example the subject has been changed from the assignment to the student . |