Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [to-vb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Chief Superintendent Ken Mackay , in charge of the operation , said police had been aware of the large number of City supporters planning to arrive from Friday . |
2 | My interest in whether they were making much progress towards the glorious flavours beginning to arrive from Australia , New Zealand and Southern America was only somewhat tempered by a certain nervousness on behalf of my liver and my head . |
3 | High tide , with the water welling round the piers of the bridge , and the buildings on the banks seeming to grow from water , was nice , but low tide , as on this morning , had a sort of beauty of its own . |
4 | Drift-netters wishing to move from fishing grounds in the Tasman to those in the South Pacific would not be allowed to pass through New Zealand waters without risking confiscation of their vessels and a substantial fine . |
5 | According to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago . |
6 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
7 | However , overloading of certain services remains a major problem , and reports have been received of passengers having to stand from Birmingham to Aberystwyth ! |
8 | The machines have a new architecture , including a 1Gb/sec memory bus and up to eight 256Mb/sec HP Precision Bus I/O channels , which means that users hoping to upgrade from HP 's previously high-end 870 systems will face a box-swap . |
9 | In April the government confirmed an intensified campaign against PFLP guerrillas and the arrest of Islamic Jihad members [ see p. 37752 ] ; in May serious unrest in Palestinian camps followed the Rishon Le Zion massacre near Tel Aviv [ see p. 37443 ] ; in July the Jordanian army killed four PFLP guerrillas attempting to infiltrate from Syria ; in November Baker Al-Khawaldeh , a leading official of the militant Islamic Liberation Party , was arrested by security police . |