Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may want to change the format , say from Video 8 to VHS , so that it can be played back on your table-top VCR , or to convert the sound track from hi-fi to a linear edge track which can then be edited by audio dub . |
| 2 | Lord Hollick , the managing director currently embroiled in a boardroom battle at Mirror Group Newspapers , where he is a director , saw the broking business grow from £18.9 million against a background of declining interest rates and increased supply of government , corporate and US municipal bonds . |
| 3 | Taiwan has seen its reserves ( excluding gold ) climb from $12 billion at the end of 1990 to $12 billion in December 1992 — the biggest stash of any country in the world . |
| 4 | One-bedroom apartments cost from £319 each for a week for two sharing . |
| 5 | Salaries range from £10k–£18k dependent on qualifications , with relocation packages where applicable . |
| 6 | The theme of this year 's Festivities , which run from July 4th to 20th , is ‘ The Best in Britain ’ , but there will also be a Spanish evening , to help celebrate the new regular P&O ferry service from Portsmouth to Bilbao . |
| 7 | Estimates vary from £1.5 billion to £4 billion , depending on how popular the lottery is . |
| 8 | Prices vary from FFr 4,000–25,000 with a handful of works around the FFr100,000 mark . |
| 9 | This is extremely confusing if you upgrade from version 4.2 to version 4.5 and have to refer to two manuals with identical titles containing different information . |
| 10 | Wicklow from November 6th to 8th . |
| 11 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 12 | Right , now let's just say , P one P two , right , prices change from P one to P two in the short run , the change in quantities can be very small . |
| 13 | These manufactured crayons differ from lump sanguine in that they are based on special recipes , including China clay admixtures , to soften the natural properties of the colouring matter used . |
| 14 | When you have fohn [ warm wind ] and temperatures go from minus 20 to plus 10 you get a kind of surface soap which can be a problem . |
| 15 | Three patients died during hospital stay from causes unrelated to bleeding from Dieulafoy lesion . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , he has cut his full-year profits forecast from £235 million to £220 million . |
| 17 | Two further points arise from s. 110 of the Companies Act 1989 which relate to the breadth of the objects clause : |
| 18 | This system is used to reduce wages , increase company profits and totally undermine training and health and safety procedures for crews and provide hazards for all the countries around whose coast they sail with the death and environmental problems that follow from accidents such as occurred in the past week . |
| 19 | Regimes seeking the ideal torturer need candidates who are young , educated , with a track record of obedience to authority — to parents , teachers , priests — and who come from families sympathetic to the political aims of the state . |
| 20 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 21 | A good performance from Pot Snack meals helped profits from consumer foods rise from £27.8 million to £30.8 million . |
| 22 | To most of the regulars who troop from Down Royal in the north to Tipperary in the south , Charlie can do no wrong . |
| 23 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 24 | While Humanae Vitae began the detachment of large segments of the Catholic community , particularly more vocal segments , from the near unanimous and unquestioned following of papal authority characteristic of the pre-Vatican II era , it was left to John Paul and Cardinal Ratzinger , prefect from November 1981 of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , to harden that detachment into a consistent attitude of distrust as the pope seemed to distance himself more and more from many of the central values of the Council , and of the most apparently positive and welcomed developments of Catholicism in the subsequent years . |
| 25 | GRE , which is paying shareholders an unchanged total dividend of 7p per share , saw its investment income last year improve from £268 million to £296 million . |