Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catechesis differs from evangelisation in that catechesis assumes that a faith commitment has been made by the participants . |
| 2 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 3 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 4 | The election of Sir Michael followed Namaliu 's decision to retire from politics in order to spend more time with his wife who was seriously ill . |
| 5 | The RSPB , as part of its ‘ Campaign for the Countryside ’ , has recently called for two and a half million acres of farmland to be taken out of production and converted to wildlife habitats , a process to be paid for by money diverted from CAP into conservation . |
| 6 | Frequently generals thought it best if they were outmanoeuvred to in effect accept an honourable surrender er and er bargains of this kind occurred from time to time between largely mercenary armies . |
| 7 | If you work regularly for one agency you may want to have your position and experience reviewed from time to time , so that future work you undertake can be constructive and part of bona fide career development . |
| 8 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 9 | Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid . |
| 10 | Of course , the response varied from council to council . |
| 11 | The PC magazine market needs a reasonably priced down to earth mag so I hope your circulation goes from strength to strength but on present showing there 's a lot to do to get it right , Andrew H. |
| 12 | This discretion has attracted much criticism and means licensing practice differs from area to area . |
| 13 | There 's Echo There 's Echo goes from strength to strength to the extent that one of its competitors , the main competitor , Tribune del Expansione was obliged to merge with Lacoude Francais I mentioned earlier that Ensure was re-launched and er it achieved a circulation of a hundred and five thousand . |
| 14 | We have already discussed the leverage deriving from control over expertise . |
| 15 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 16 | Watery nasal discharge and obstruction goes from left to right nostril . |
| 17 | The appointment was subject to the university statutes , which , inter alia , required the applicant to retire from office at the age of 67 . |
| 18 | Powell 's scholarship ranged from work on the letters M–N , Q–R , Si–St , and U–V , for the Oxford English Dictionary , an edition of the translation by Nicholas Love of Bonaventura 's Meditationes Vitae Christi of c .1410 , studies of the Adventurer of John Hawkesworth [ q.v. ] , the bibliography of Samuel Johnson , Thomas Percy , Thomas Pennant , and Robert Southwell [ qq.v. ] , contributions to the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature , vol. ii ( 1940 ) and the Yale edition of Johnson ( 1963 ) , to a collaboration with John Munro on ‘ The London Shakespeare ’ ( 1958 ) . |
| 19 | At the conclusion of the ceremony , shouts of congratulation rose from earth to heaven and the sound of kettle drums of joy rent the skies . |
| 20 | The bomber dropped from formation with smoke pouring from it and disappeared slowly out to sea . |
| 21 | Certainly some of the tension came from implementation of a restructuring programme . |
| 22 | Later that month the British Pacific Fleet 's ( BPF ) main strike force sailed from Trincomalee for Sydney , which was to be the main Fleet base for Pacific operations . |
| 23 | Hardly aware of the chill she paced restlessly along the bank , seeing for the first time the way the dew crisped to frost along each blade of grass until the parkland veered from dark to grey to an ephemeral diamond enchantment . |
| 24 | It is worth noting , however , that just as the teaching force moved from co-operation to conflict , so did many of the local authorities . |
| 25 | the degree of tones in a photograph ranging from highlight to shadow . |
| 26 | Every year , on average , the last speaker of yet another Australian language dies and a unique intellectual instrument passes from use as a living language , at best recorded in the barest outline . |
| 27 | The market is increasingly price competitive and , as fixed price contracts generally apply with no opportunity to vary labour costs from year to year , particularly risky . |
| 28 | You can easily carry your BOND Sweater Machine from room to room or even take it on holiday with you . |
| 29 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 30 | Richards , who has just completed his first year as the Welsh Rugby Union development officer for Mid-Wales , wants to see the representative side going from strength to strength . |