Example sentences of "[noun prp] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this capacity , he attended meetings around the country to organize opposition to American attempts to remove Aoun from office in favour of a new Syrian-backed president , and later that month conferred in New York with Dr Muhamad Mugraby , Aoun 's envoy to the United Nations , and the consul general for Lebanon , Victor Bitar . |
| 2 | ‘ Are ye leaving so soon , Master English Clerk ? ’ she asked suggestively , her eyes boldly studying Corbett from head to toe . |
| 3 | He no longer drives a two-tone Rolls , no longer smokes or drinks , and he 's changed the colours of his Victorian house in Primrose Hill from black to white . |
| 4 | He 'd come to our house in Delaporte from time to time . |
| 5 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 6 | The B.C. Electric Co. sponsored a broadcast series of symphony concerts making use of famous conductors who visited Vancouver from time to time . |
| 7 | Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage . |
| 8 | There is plenty of documentary evidence that brass objects were imported into Benin from Europe by sea and no one doubts that this was the main source of the metal from the 16th century onwards . |
| 9 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State may not increase the NNDR from year to year by more than the increase in the Retail Price Index . |
| 11 | The measures already taken in preceding weeks towards economic liberalization had led to unrest and strikes , which spread in February from journalists to mill and construction workers and doctors , and to oil workers . |
| 12 | From Scotrail outlining the present position of services from Curriehill station and the introduction of new electric services on 11th May from Kirknewton to Waverley . |
| 13 | From Scotrail outlining the present position of services from Curriehill station and the introduction of new electric services on 11th May from Kirknewton to Waverley . |
| 14 | The group had been under surveillance since arriving in Valencia from Cyprus by sea in September . |
| 15 | Some alien imports are quickly acclimatised into artistic traditions that last for decades or centuries , and nobody bothers if most of Shakespeare 's sources were continental , if porcelain came to England from China by way of Saxony , or if almost all the literary kinds the English tradition has excelled in , excepting only the detective story , have been borrowed from abroad . |
| 16 | The rest are mainly either inter-urban routes like Portsmouth-Bristol , quite busy branch lines like the Cornish branches or the South Wales branches ; or they are former main lines from which InterCity has progressively withdrawn — like the Settle & Carlisle , the former Glasgow & South Western Glasgow route , Newport-Crewe , the trans-Pennine lines and some cross-country routes crossing England from east to west . |
| 17 | The Rover ambled across England from east to west . |
| 18 | If any body governed Athens from day to day , it was the council of 500 , which met on about 300 days in the year , and which had , among other duties , the task of preparing the agenda for meetings of the assembly . |
| 19 | It is also the meeting of the cultured city dweller , who led Odysseus from undergrowth to city palace , with the savage Cyclops who wished to eat the hero in a cave . |
| 20 | ‘ We hear from Denmark from time to time , ’ Eochaid said . |
| 21 | On Lan 's other side Tam shot an accusing look at Kim from time to time as if to make unmistakably clear to his father that he had done everything possible to dissuade Kim from his folly . |
| 22 | But social worker Jenny Barker wishes she had held out against pressure to promote her four-year-old daughter Ruth from nursery to reception . |
| 23 | Only Rodrigo now stood between them and prevented the whole of Moslem Spain from reverting to independent Moorish rule . |
| 24 | It leaves the moves of Neil Pointon and Steve Redmond from City to Boundary Park to be completed later this week . |
| 25 | Rhythmic impetus was surprisingly low , given the presence of Tom Bancroft on drums and Josefino Cupido on percussion , but that improved notably after the interval on two extended ( if often rather directionless ) pieces which juxtaposed to good effect the four-horn front-line of John Longbotham on alto and Russell Cowieson on tenor saxophone , Robert Henderson on trumpet , and John Kenny on trombone , with Lindsay Cooper switching from bass to tuba , and Wells from keyboard to bass guitar . |
| 26 | The visitors , seeking their ninth win in ten League games , are likely to switch McGrath from centre-back to midfield to combat McMahon 's aggressive runs . |
| 27 | Figure 10.7 Residuals from line in figure 10.6 |
| 28 | Sweeping liberalization of foreign exchange dealings were introduced on May 21 , 1990 , elevating Thailand from compliance with Article XIV to compliance with Article VIII of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) Agreement . |
| 29 | H.S. Ferns , A Reading from Left to Right : One Mans Political History ( 1983 ) |
| 30 | The official Bulgarian news agency BTA reported on Feb. 20 that the Shumen district court had sentenced Yusuf Mutlu from Istanbul and Belchin Perunov from Shumen to prison terms of 12 and 10 years respectively for passing state secrets to Turkey . |