Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | During the same period the number of apprentices more than trebled from 80 to 250 as the town became a specialist craft centre offering a wide variety of trades . |
2 | Its purpose is to diagnose and remedy weaknesses rather than to exclude from further study the students who do not perform well . |
3 | Incredible to believe , although he had fallen unchecked for over 200 feet , onto solid rock below , the pilot was still alive , although dying from multiple injuries . |
4 | He now works a lay minister visiting patients in nursing homes in Barnard Castle and Darlington , although suffering from chronic spinal pains . |
5 | These realities , pressures and residual doubts probably add rather than detract from Soviet incentives to favour a pre-emptive , lightning offensive , carried out with a minimum of warning and consultation . |
6 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |
7 | Dickinson and colleagues reported that E coli from the faeces of colitics were markedly more adherent to HeLa cells in an in vitro assay than isolates from non-colitic control patients and showed that this adhesin was mannose resistant . |
8 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
9 | Although banned from any political correspondence he was allowed to explain his position on non-cooperation : ‘ While it could be a source of strength for our movement [ it ] could never really furnish an ideal . |
10 | Aoki ( 1984 p.l5 ) has shown that the ratio of investment in subsidiaries to total paid-in capital in all Japanese industry more than doubled from 1966–81 . |
11 | These factors help explain some of the reasons why the total number of ACET clients covered at any one time by our on call service in London has more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to over 150 by March 1991 ; and why the nature of the services required has become so much more sophisticated . |
12 | These factors help to explain why the total number of clients covered at any one time by our London 24 hour on-call service more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to 150 by March 1991 ; and why the provision of service has had to become so much more sophisticated . |
13 | This was less than the absolute growth in part-time male employment in services which more than doubled from 4000 to nearly 9000 . |
14 | This , the Government says , explains why those receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
15 | This , the Government says , explains why the number receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
16 | Between 1980 and 1985 interest payments by third world countries more than doubled from 9 to 20 per cent. , at the same time as average prices for their commodities fell by an average of more than 25 per cent . |
17 | The extension of this power in 1983 to cover elderly people in residential care and nursing homes led to the growth in the number of private home places , which more than doubled from 1979–84 , and was estimated to be continuing to rise ( Audit Commission , 1986 ) . |
18 | On the Tyne and Wear the daily rate for pitmen more than doubled from 1793 to 1815 , from around 2s ( 10p ) to 4 to 5s ( 20-25p ) , bringing a real improvement of 20 to 30 per cent . |
19 | If formed from viscous magma they are normally limited in lateral extent but where composed of basic rocks they may extend for thousands of square kilometres . |
20 | The qualitative variables were : sex , aetiology of cirrhosis ( alcholic or non-alcholic ) , activity of alcoholism ( active consumption at time zero , abstinence for at least one month or undetermined status ) , duration of liver disease from the initial diagnosis ( |
21 | The whole system is believed to be surrounded by streamers and shells of gas , and if seen from close range would be truly fascinating , though from its distance of 300 light-years it appears single in our telescopes . |
22 | Soft lights glowed on the mountains as if reflected from stained glass . |
23 | Similarly , if buying from another division it should be made to pay a fair price . |
24 | It was a strong baby , bedraggled and bloody , as if pulled from some ruin . |
25 | The smell of damp and rot seemed to waft from the doorway as if expelled from putrid lungs . |
26 | as if plunging from 160 feet with a bit of elastic tied to an ankle was n't frightening enough , the jumps took place in the dark [ hence no successful photography ! ] . |
27 | At the same time , mould a black top hat , bow tie and cane , and an orange fish if liked from some of the reserved fondant . |
28 | Apart from explorers and travellers , one of the first Englishmen to settle in Madeira was William Bolton , in 1695 , when he took advantage of the Act of Charles 11 which prohibited the export of goods grown or manufactured in Europe to the West Indies and American Colonies , unless shipped from British ports in British ships , with Madeira specifically excluded from its terms . |
29 | Phillip Hutton of Knock and Sammy Moore of Willowfield are included in the team for the first time , while dropped from last year are John Nutt ( Pickie ) , Bertie Nixon ( Willowfield ) , Roy McCune ( Ballymena ) and Stan Espie ( Willowfield ) . |
30 | Even in the university centres , perhaps only 50 per cent of cases are notified , while reporting from private practitioners is non-existent . |