Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not rushing out to get more players , ’ said Gray , who had just rejected a bid of £175,000 for Willis from Motherwell . |
| 2 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 3 | On the day of the accident the pilot prepared the aircraft for flight from a field adjacent to his house . |
| 4 | As Figures 4–6 , above , show , the proportion of deliveries in this category ranged from 1% for items housed in the Main Building and the Annexe , to 3% for material from the Advocates ' Library . |
| 5 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
| 6 | While the Canadian business has been profitable , WH Smith believes the returns being obtained on £75m of sales from 200 outlets are not comparable with the returns that can be obtained in other markets and did not justify the future investment necessary to develop the chain . |
| 7 | If the order goes ahead we take the 2,000kg of B from stock ; there is no cash flow , the £3/kg being a sunk cost . |
| 8 | Buy a 150ml brown glass bottle of purified water containing 15ml of ethanol from your local dispensing chemist . |
| 9 | As well as allowing us to buy priority tickets and get away tickets , you get a quite nice yearbook ( 3.5 quids worth ) , 10% of goods from the shop and discounts from home games . |
| 10 | The appeal target for the last Games in Auckland in 1990 was also £250,000 and , significantly perhaps was not reached , £195,000 including sponsorship from McEwans of £100,000 being raised . |
| 11 | Price is £35 including p&p from : |
| 12 | In the St John Nepomuk Chapel are paintings and frescos by V. V. Reiner from about 1730 . |
| 13 | Another thing that is quite likely to happen is that neither of us trusts the other : we both play DEFECT for all ten rounds of the game , and the banker gains $100 in fines from each of us . |
| 14 | Admission is £2 for adults , £1.50 for children on the gate , or £1 in advance from local shops . |
| 15 | Reveals a backstage worker : ‘ Roadies swept up dozens of bottles and more than £15 in coins from the stage after his set . ’ |
| 16 | The mayor of Atlantic City , James L. Usry , 67 , with three council members and nine other people were arrested on July 27 on bribery and misconduct charges including accepting $6,000 in cash from an undercover informer to license boardwalk carts in summer . |
| 17 | The indictment arose from the allegation by federal prosecutors that he had accepted $100,000 in bribes from military contractors and lobbyists . |
| 18 | A discourse analyst may regularly work with extended extracts of conversational speech , for example , but he does not consider his data in isolation from the descriptions and insights provided by sentence-grammarians . |
| 19 | Private transfers from the airport to your hotel and vice versa are available for up to three Golden Choice customers at £364 per car from Pisa and £89 per car from Florence . |
| 20 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
| 21 | Profits before tax and asset disposals showed an increase of 26pc from £1.2m to £1.6m but the pre-tax figure dipped 34pc to £2.02m from £3.05m caused by a marked reduction in asset disposals . |
| 22 | The Statutory Advice Scheme ( the ‘ pink form ’ scheme ) was means-tested with the top limit for eligibility set very low , involved an initial payment of half-a-crown by the client and permitted the solicitor to claim £1 per half-hour from the Law Society up to a maximum of £3 . |
| 23 | In another case , Burrough 's Corporation ( Perkin 's ) Application [ 1974 ] , computer programs controlled the transmission of data to terminals from a central computer ( a communications system ) . |
| 24 | Comfort 41 rose-tinted lenses cost about £20 on order from most opticians — add £10 for prescription lenses . |
| 25 | Today 's pre-tax profits for the nine months to September 30 were up by 56% to £1.03bn from £657m in the same period last year . |
| 26 | Companies that set up their regional headquarters in Singapore are only taxed 10% on income from approved services , including trading in foreign exchange and offshore investments . |
| 27 | For the first nine months of the year taxable profits at the group , whose brands range from Persil to Flora , were ahead 10% to £1,459m from £1,331m . |
| 28 | For the first nine months of the year taxable profits at the group , whose brands range from Persil to Flora , were ahead 10% to £1,459m from £1,331m . |
| 29 | Bad debt losses jumped 40pc to £329.3m from £235.9m , including £285.0m on domestic mortgages . |
| 30 | Hole and colleagues report the incidence of cancer as well as mortality , and they compare rates observed in hypertensive patients with normative data on incidence from national figures and from a survey in Renfrew and Paisley . |