Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] 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 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 5 | What questions do you want to know from customers about , what d' ya wan na know about them ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Suppose it wants to go from A to a point E that it can not see . |
| 10 | If someone wants to go from A to B , who else is competing to take that person there ? |
| 11 | Year-end profits are expected to slip from £23m to £20m , with an unchanged divi of 8.4p . |
| 12 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the North Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply from primary sources will decline from over 90% at present to around 20% in 2011 ( still requiring an absolute increase of over 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , the supply from secondary and recycled sources is expected to increase from 10% to over 70% during this period . |
| 13 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the North Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply from primary sources will decline from over 90% at present to around 20% in 2011 ( still requiring an absolute increase of over 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , the supply from secondary and recycled sources is expected to increase from 10% to over 70% during this period . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The product is expected to sell from $17,000 to $30,000 when available in June . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Found property : Police at Strand Road want to hear from owners of these items found recently in the city centre . |
| 18 | Last week for instance , we had somebody out on the motorway interviewing the site workers , but we also want to hear from people in the local communities , around Banbury , around Bicester , and found out what they feel about the motorway , because it 's going to have an enormous impact on the area . |
| 19 | I think some one has to walk from Nottingham to Dundee . |
| 20 | The songs are carefully arranged , played with the anonymous perfection we 've come to expect from people like the Floyd , and last about a quarter of an hour . |
| 21 | The Western European market for electronic chemicals is expected to grow from $1530m in 1990 to $2160m by 1995 , according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan . |
| 22 | Now he wants to hear from members of staff who think they may have the answer . |
| 23 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
| 24 | However , as it was found to be the lack of care which followed the loss of a parent , rather than the loss itself , which explained the child 's increased risk of depression in adulthood , the same vulnerability can be expected to result from lack of care in intact family homes ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | Stephen Tyler-Upfield wants to switch from conversions into building for the first-time buyers he believes are now increasing there . |
| 26 | With the break between the two concentrations , soon to be filled in by Milton Keynes and Northampton 's expansion , a virtually unbroken stretch of metropolitan areas promised to stretch from Sussex to North Lancashire . |
| 27 | The rigid view of the sexual division of labour previously contained within the system is being diluted , to be replaced by a scheme which assumes that women will both want and need to switch from home to paid work and back again , particularly as the special demands of dependants such as children and the elderly — for whom the system still assumes women are primarily responsible — come and go . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And colleagues , a couple of colleagues that , er , few of us appear to appreciate from time to time , and those are the signers who do a very important job for some delegates who are here this week . |
| 30 | The pre-tax figures were in line with City expectations , but estimated net assets , which had been expected to dip from 720p to nearer 700p a share , rose to 731p , following a partial valuation by directors . |