Example sentences of "[adv] from [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Treasury plans to transfer 20 officers away from trapping smugglers to collecting VAT are tying their hands . |
| 2 | The Government has shied away from forcing unions to discipline members who take part in unofficial action , and has put proposals to curb strikes in essential services on the back burner . |
| 3 | She was two weeks away from giving birth to their first child . |
| 4 | At Brussels , where America 's secretary of state , Warren Christopher , was on May 6th in urgent talks with NATO allies , the focus shifted abruptly once more from keeping peace to something starker . |
| 5 | But far from alerting people to the danger of environmental degradation , the theory was used to justify the kind of progress that increased the level of exploitation . |
| 6 | Mendel argues that the government 's policy of a high rate of indirect taxation and the high price of imported goods meant that industry , far from bringing benefit to the masses , actually contributed to their impoverishment . |
| 7 | In fact , government-owned companies , far from providing support to national revenues , became a major drain upon them as is apparent from the following summary from the government 's own Economic Survey of 1982 of the state of Tanzania 's state-owned textile mills : |
| 8 | Yet far from ensuring loyalty to the status quo , their elevated position made students receptive to radical ideas . |
| 9 | Yet far from ensuring loyalty to the status quo , their elevated position developed in them a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of tsarist society . |
| 10 | Coincidentally , is also involved in this field of pro-active software which , apart from directing documents to a particular in-tray , ‘ can identify overloads and even balance the load more effectively ’ . |
| 11 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |