Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 2 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 3 | The election of Sir Michael followed Namaliu 's decision to retire from politics in order to spend more time with his wife who was seriously ill . |
| 4 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 5 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 6 | ‘ proceed to a particular point ’ means e.g. to signal the driver to go from A to B or start a particular line of traffic etc . |
| 7 | The appointment was subject to the university statutes , which , inter alia , required the applicant to retire from office at the age of 67 . |
| 8 | Many others would not allow their animals to suffer from lack of feed or , in the case of cows , the cessation of milking . |
| 9 | He describes the neo-Darwinian approach taken by ethologists , concentrates on the behavioural ecology of Old World monkeys and apes in an attempt to extrapolate from animals to man , and examines the political objections to sociobiology . |
| 10 | This year Moss expects less than 20% of turnover to come from sales of framework technologies — he hopes end user products will make up 80% — and only 5% or 10% during 1994 . |
| 11 | In its early days , the ERM allowed weak currencies to devalue from time to time . |
| 12 | Yet the very need for academic subjects to escape from allegations of ‘ practical utility ’ may yet lead to irresistible pressure for change in the period of economic malaise which we currently confront . |
| 13 | The article says : ’ Mr. Major disagreed with the delegation 's gloomy forecast of when the recovery in construction would begin , saying he expected industry to emerge from recession in the middle of next year . ’ |
| 14 | They expect the year-end result to crash from £211m to about £160m to £170m . |
| 15 | Some of the facts and figures connected with the 500 metre-long structure are mind-boggling — 65,000 tonnes of steelwork , 220,000 tonnes of concrete [ enough to fill a queue of cement mixers stretching from London to Manchester ] , 1,800 miles of electrical and instrument cable and enough pipework to stretch from Sellafield to London . |
| 16 | Strip buildings of varying sizes are particularly prominent along the main frontages , some with additions to the rear , others with internal partitions , presumably providing the domestic and workshop accommodation for local craftsmen to judge from excavation in the suburbs . |
| 17 | In detail the proposal called on the Iraqi leadership " to announce without further delay Iraq 's intention to withdraw from Kuwait under a specific timetable and to begin an immediate , rapid and massive withdrawal " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Kevin Billington 's production , Quartermaine 's Terms comes over as a deceptively sedate and profoundly funny play that is a serious pleasure to watch from start to finish . |
| 20 | If you simply put up but people still have to use their cars to get from A to B you 're not actually improving the environment at all and it seems that adding added habits habits habits er it it seems to me that proposals that we have represented and which create improvement in a number of areas or reduce the cut in a number of areas will actually produce a much more balanced programme for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 21 | They are given a company car to get from A to B , and their main work starts when they get there is n't it ? |
| 22 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 23 | ‘ Our idea is not to change the nature of the force to move from peacekeeping to peacemaking , ’ said Jean-Bernard Merimee , the ambassador of France , whose forces have suffered the most casualties in the Balkans . |
| 24 | On June 26 the National Assembly approved the extension for six months from June 30 of the mandate for French , United Kingdom and US aircraft to operate from Incirlik near Adana and the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey . |
| 25 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 26 | The flow time t , is the time taken for the solution meniscus to pass from x to y in bulb E. |
| 27 | The Group , which intends to operate nationally , does not set an upper limit on the size of customer , but expects 80 per cent of its work to come from companies with a turnover of between £0.5M to £5M . |
| 28 | This year Moss expects less than 20% to come from sales of framework technologies and hopes end-user products will be 80% — and only 5% or 10% during 1994 . |
| 29 | Luo had served nearly two years of a five-year sentence on charges of trying to help Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming to escape from China after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square . |
| 30 | 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 . |