Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun] [num] [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 | Estimates vary from £1.5 billion to £4 billion , depending on how popular the lottery is . |
| 5 | Prices vary from FFr 4,000–25,000 with a handful of works around the FFr100,000 mark . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , he has cut his full-year profits forecast from £235 million to £220 million . |
| 10 | Two further points arise from s. 110 of the Companies Act 1989 which relate to the breadth of the objects clause : |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | A good performance from Pot Snack meals helped profits from consumer foods rise from £27.8 million to £30.8 million . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |