Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 2 | Michael , their younger brother , had promised to come from London at Easter but Luke , the eldest , still would not come . |
| 3 | Learning to parascend from water-skis at fifty-nine ? |
| 4 | Many young people who carry on the habit on their own , after first experimenting with friends , are trying to escape from unhappiness at home , perhaps because their parents are quarrelling . |
| 5 | He had actually planned to resign from Parliament at the 1983 election and had to revise his intentions rather swiftly . |
| 6 | Director No. 62668 ‘ Jutland ’ enters Victoria with a local train from Nottingham probably around the time these engines were given a brief return to service from storage at Staveley in 1961 . |
| 7 | Those leaving the Cabinet , besides Thatcher , were Cecil Parkinson , who indicated that he intended to retire from Parliament at the next general election , and Lord Belstead who was appointed to a non-Cabinet post . |
| 8 | The appointment was subject to the university statutes , which , inter alia , required the applicant to retire from office at the age of 67 . |
| 9 | Mr Whitechurch described it : ‘ The first train that I went over was the very latest type of West Coast Joint Stock corridor , designed to run from Euston at 11.30 am to Edinburgh and Glasgow , returning from Edinburgh at 11.35 . |
| 10 | If the capsule is assumed to start from rest at the moment that the light flash is emitted , then the capsule will have attained a velocity relative to the Earth when the light reaches the roof . |
| 11 | TO ARRIVE from London at Chesterfield station in Derbyshire — avoiding the gents ' toilet , where I have slipped up before — and then , after admiring the celebrated crooked spire , to find myself , within a few minutes , in the rugged landscape of the Peak , is an exhilarating experience . |
| 12 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Mr Ray Harding , the New York attorney formerly representing Yugoslavia and now Croatia , expressed his firm conviction that Sotheby 's attempt to withdraw from proceedings at the stage is premature and should not be allowed until the pre-trial discovery process has been completed . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I know how my grandparents felt when they heard that Derek was to hang from journalists at their door . ’ |
| 14 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 15 | Employee attitudes are likely to range from excitement at the prospect of living and working in a foreign country to dread of having to adapt to a different climate , culture and life style . |