Example sentences of "[verb] from [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These mechanisms can not simply be lifted from one society ( and thus from one language via literal translation ) to another . |
| 2 | It was announced on March 31 that subsidies were to be lifted from 16 consumer commodities , i.e. all except for semolina , flour , milk and bread . |
| 3 | Her left pupil is horribly dilated and blood trickles from one nostril and her hair . |
| 4 | One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats . |
| 5 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 6 | Scotland 's national coach has been disadvantaged only in the sense that so many of his squad come from one club , Rangers , who have had to withdraw six players because of injury . |
| 7 | John is convinced that most of the houses ghostly happenings are come from one place ; the so-called Bishop 's bedroom . |
| 8 | The package also has improved ability to construct hypertext links , so that readers can jump from one part of a document to a linked part with a simple click . |
| 9 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 10 | Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications . |
| 11 | Our working interest production rose from 85,000 boepd to 184,000 boepd , chiefly as a result of the additional production from the Ultramar acquisition . |
| 12 | The Forestry Commission have laid out walks and trails with viewpoints and there are guided tours organised from two information centres . |
| 13 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 14 | An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between . |
| 15 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 16 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 17 | As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit . |
| 18 | The DNA molecule uncoils from one end , the opposite strands separate , the bonds between opposite bases break , and the free nucleotides find their opposite nucleotide on each strand . |
| 19 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |
| 20 | The profile of the street remains unchanged , but parking takes the form of stretches of right-angle and alongside parking , alternating from one side of the road to the other every 50 metres or so . |
| 21 | The area around Perry Barr Wharf has several industrial areas , alternating from one side of the canal to the other . |
| 22 | If the warren and burrow systems are first cleared in the autumn , subsequent work in the area on other systems is likely to lead to rabbits evicted from one set of burrows going to ground elsewhere . |
| 23 | The degree of success varied from one head to another . |
| 24 | The price varied from one shilling ( five new pence ) to one shilling and sixpence a pound postage extra . |
| 25 | The speed at which an awareness of national fashions in architecture grew varied from one area to another . |
| 26 | As Tables 10–13 , below , show , most of the factors mentioned were common to all exhibitions , although the degree to which a particular factor contributed to an exhibition 's success varied from one exhibition to another . |
| 27 | Their controlled study showed that the social withdrawal and poverty of speech of chronic patients varied from one hospital to another according to the severity of ward restrictiveness , absence of personal belongings , and the length of time that patients were left to do nothing . |
| 28 | book , then it 's gon na get forgo , forgotten from one day to the next . |
| 29 | As peoples shift from one part of the globe to another , from one self to another , in various states of exile , dispossession and displacement , the dominant feature of the late-twentieth century has to be the search for place . |
| 30 | As they shift from one adult to another , teachers say it is the video which keeps them under control — a new binge of blood and guts each time they are shuttled past the rental shop . |