Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [noun sg] [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 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 6 | Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; |
| 7 | The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Imperial Engineers School has grown , the Colleges of Magic have thrived , and the army has marched from victory to victory . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The resource cost of producing BC of the good has fallen from BCHE to BCFE , a saving of EFH . |
| 12 | It has differed from science in that the solution has also been the problem . |
| 13 | The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it . |
| 14 | Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s . |
| 15 | The rate of acquisition of these various classes of assets has varied from year to year but with the exception of overseas securities holdings , which have tended to rise as a proportion of the total since 1980 , there are no significant trends . |
| 16 | The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment . |
| 17 | The operation of the communities of interest has varied from seeking to preserve neighbourhood cohesion or status quo ( Fineview and Charles Street Kirkbride ) to pursuing the interests of an exclusive and unrepresentative group within the neighbourhood ( such as Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny and increasingly Manchester ) . |
| 18 | The designation of zones has certainly encouraged development , but this has varied from region to region . |
| 19 | ‘ Clearly , their major difficulty is finance — the rouble has dropped from parity with the dollar three years ago to 1200 to the $ now . |
| 20 | The only really significant inroad into the dominance of English in recent years has come from Spanish in the southern states of the US . |
| 21 | The growth has come from privatisation of services provided in the public sectors , particularly healthcare and education and from catering for the public . |
| 22 | Much of it has come from work with animals , for here it is possible to arrange particular experiences at particular ages and subsequently test for their effect on the behaviour of mature animals . |
| 23 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 24 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 25 | The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board . |
| 26 | But subsequent protests by local farmers , whose land has suffered from drought in recent years , prompted it to reverse the decision . |
| 27 | Agassi , who is scheduled to launch his Wimbledon defence on Monday week , has suffered from tendonitis of the right wrist since he was last in action at Barcelona in April . |
| 28 | My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . |
| 29 | An example of a clause providing for the payment of a participating dividend is : The Company shall after making all necessary provisions for payment of the Preference Dividend ( including any Arrears ) and the redemption of the Preference Shares but in priority to payment of any dividend to the holders of Ordinary Shares , pay to the holders of the Preferred Ordinary Shares as from ( and inclusive of ) the accounting period ending … , subject to payment in full of the Preferred Dividend ( including any Arrears of the same ) pay to the holders of Preferred Ordinary Shares a cumulative cash dividend ( " the Participating Dividend " ) of a sum ( net of any advance corporation tax payable by the Company ) equal to … % of the Profit After Tax for each accounting period of the Company ; the Participating Dividend shall be deemed to accrue from day to day throughout each accounting period and shall become payable and be paid not later than four months immediately following the end of the accounting period to which it relates . |
| 30 | Just-in-time management philosophy has moved from manufacturing to the university library sector . |