Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 2 | There are no real features — a low relief gangway here , a slashed crack there , a stiffening of angle at two thirds height seize the imagination of the guide-writer more than that of the viewing climber , who will want to go from bottom to top by the smoothest and straightest way . |
| 3 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 4 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 5 | Benefits realised varied from site to site , but ranged from a doubling of throughput per week at a cost more than halved , through to a headcount reduction of one third . |
| 6 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 7 | What questions do you want to know from customers about , what d' ya wan na know about them ? |
| 8 | Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; |
| 9 | The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " . |
| 10 | Manufacturers ' rate of return on capital has jumped from 2% to 10% . |
| 11 | As a result , Asia 's share in world output has jumped from 7% to 18% . |
| 12 | So you can imagine the sort of conversations we 're gon na have when Ray and Cynthia are talking about the distances between things and I 'm going to be saying you know if I want to go from Piccadilly to Tech house , it can take me at least half an hour . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from industrialists on Government intervention in the strategic direction and investment in companies . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from industrialists about the importance of reducing Government burdens on business . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from businesses in the north-west concerning the effects of the recession in industry . |
| 16 | The money Sara has received from newspapers as a result of libel actions has helped to pay for that care . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received from farmers about compensation for the effects of low flying on livestock . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many representations he has received from patients about NHS trusts ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 19 | All MBDC meetings are sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings . |
| 20 | All MBDC meetings were sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings . |
| 21 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 22 | Shares in the quoted radio stocks in 1988 outperformed the market by 100 per cent , and since March 1987 , the sector 's market value has soared from £33m to over £400m . |
| 23 | The Imperial Engineers School has grown , the Colleges of Magic have thrived , and the army has marched from victory to victory . |
| 24 | On that basis , the male is programmed to go from nightclub to nightclub and bed to bed , scattering his seed about the place to produce as many new disco-dancing Lotharios as possible . |
| 25 | The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 . |
| 26 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 27 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 28 | The resource cost of producing BC of the good has fallen from BCHE to BCFE , a saving of EFH . |
| 29 | At the same time per capita income rose from S$1,330 to S$22,867 in 1991 , and unemployment has fallen from 11% to less than 2% . |
| 30 | Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now . |