Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many others would not allow their animals to suffer from lack of feed or , in the case of cows , the cessation of milking . |
| 3 | In its early days , the ERM allowed weak currencies to devalue from time to time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 8 | BASIC and some versions of FORTRAN contain built-in functions to convert from degrees to radians . |
| 9 | You can use the up and down arrow keys to move from line to line . |
| 10 | The foundry supplied some 42 spans of varying sizes which enabled the natives to travel from Benares to Calcutta by through train . |
| 11 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 12 | CAN anyone explain why a mail-order figurine takes eight days to arrive from Marseilles in France , but when I order a similar item from Canterbury — just 15 miles up the A2 from here — they advise me to allow 28 days for delivery . |
| 13 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 14 | Even in the 1780s travel was difficult and on foot or by horse — it took at least four days to get from Edinburgh to London . |
| 15 | He postulated that at one time there had been an area of land in what is now the Atlantic Ocean allowing plants to move from Spain to Ireland . |
| 16 | The pawnshop also played an important role in enabling families to survive from week to week — setting their meagre possessions to work to provide some security . |
| 17 | For the H-bomb , carried in long-range bombers which took several hours to fly from base to target , was already outdated by the end of the Fifties . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ So far there have been no objections that I know of to either of our plans to fly from Liverpool to London 's City Airport , or Gatwick . ’ |
| 19 | The law recognizes , through various defence doctrines and through the instruction to prosecutorial authorities to refrain from prosecution in certain cases where formally a person is guilty , that disobedience to law is sometimes justified . |
| 20 | Andrew Mills and Brian Sturgess at Barclays de Zoete Wedd expect full-year profits to fall from £75m to £70m . |
| 21 | County NatWest is looking for profits to dip from £34m to £30m , though its brewing business is looking stronger . |
| 22 | Covered pedestrian access , with lifts and inclines but no stairs ( which for the disabled and those with luggage and or small children , can cause major problems ) would enable passengers to transfer from road to rail etc in comparative comfort . |
| 23 | Where a company is engaged in more than one kind of business , it is not unusual for significant differences to arise from year to year between the separate segments . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's never taken you six hours to get from Rosslare to here ! ’ he exclaimed in disbelief . |
| 25 | An Almond Bank link would thus enable cyclists to get from Edinburgh to the Forth Road Bridge on quiet roads or paths . |
| 26 | An Almond Bank link would thus enable cyclists to get from Edinburgh to the Forth Road Bridge on quiet roads or paths . |
| 27 | Local authorities appointed volunteers to go from door to door to see who had room and who did n't ; those on the receiving end had no choice in the matter . |
| 28 | In most cases , the Americans have the advantage of ready access to water , which is collected from rivers , lakes and reservoirs and pumped through pipes to emerge from cannon on the slopes . |
| 29 | A NEW service which is expected to encourage more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 30 | A NEW service which is A expected to encourage A more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |