Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initial ‘ gut ’ reactions have varied from righteous indignation to cynical amusement , from vocal anger to silent embarrassment . |
| 2 | Decorative motifs in Sicily , however , were immensely varied from Byzantine lozenges to Norman billet , Roman acanthus and Greek key patterns . |
| 3 | The means of measuring response varied from attitudinal statements to degree of penile tumescence . |
| 4 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 5 | A small but destructive minority has turned from religious zeal to crime , or to insurrection against its own governments . |
| 6 | The XA/R Series Model 300 , introduced last October , and the Model 305 can be field upgraded from fault-tolerant uniprocessors to symmetric multi-processors in the same cabinet . |
| 7 | Norman Lamont , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , presented in the House of Commons on March 19 the budget for the financial year beginning April 5 , 1991 , in which the surprise announcement was made that a considerable portion of the burden of the community charge was to be transferred from individual charge-payers to central government , which would recoup most of the cost through an increase in value added tax . |
| 8 | A total of £41m will be transferred from central government to Scottish local authorities in 1993–4 with a further £20m towards implementing assessment and care management . |
| 9 | This restructuring has seen a redistribution of talents as well as a reduction in numbers and many people have transferred from central functions to the regions . |
| 10 | In December nineteen eighty seven she was transferred from intensive care to a main ward , but it was not until February nineteen eighty eight that she fully emerged from coma . |
| 11 | I understand that a further sum is now to be transferred from military aid to the promotion of the work that he suggests . |
| 12 | Effort must be transferred from military preparations to maintenance and improvement of our political and economic position . |
| 13 | Abu Hassan Omar was transferred from Foreign Affairs to Internal Trade and Domestic Affairs , filling the vacancy arising from the promotion of Sulaiman Daud to take charge of the Education Ministry . |
| 14 | Residents would be relocated from dying areas to those that still had life in them . |
| 15 | The Canadian Human Rights Commission released a report on Jan. 15 which concluded that the rights of a group of native Inuit had been violated when they were forcibly relocated from northern Quebec to the Arctic wilderness of Cornwallis and Ellesmere Islands . |
| 16 | To lengthen the crest , we used cyanoacrylate ‘ superglue ’ to attach crest shafts collected from other birds to existing crest feathers on models . |
| 17 | She merely wanted to be whisked from luxury hotel to draught-free concert hall in a big limousine , there to play to an attentive , elegant audience and be driven away again surrounded by encores and orchids . |
| 18 | In the course of the next three years over 5 million small farmers moved from individual farms to larger settlements , often including several hundred families . |
| 19 | Choi Ho Joong , who was moved from Foreign Minister to Unification Minister in charge of that dialogue , had been one of the architects of South Korea 's recent successes in establishing ties with many of the former communist allies of North Korea . |
| 20 | DEC 's massively parallel activities have been moved from corporate research to its mainstream computer operations and clustering , as in its recent agreement with Encore Computer Corp , is the current DEC watchword . |
| 21 | DEC 's MPP activities have been moved from corporate research to its mainstream computer operations and clustering , as in its recent deal with Encore , is the current watchword . |
| 22 | Can the government that has been assembled around Mr Beregovoy , the man who has moved from Leftist doctrines to a belief in a mixed economy and who keeps a tight rein on public spending , still be called socialist ? |
| 23 | In recent years most Latin American countries have moved from military dictatorships to democracy . |
| 24 | Bruges and Ghent had grown from modest beginnings to be flourishing centres of manufacture and trade ; and the wealth of London and England indeed were closely linked with them . |
| 25 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 26 | he had risen from humble beginnings to great wealth to become that legendary favourite of American politics , the poor farm boy who made good . |
| 27 | The two most influential men in Bruges , the castellan and the dean of St Donatian 's , ex officio chancellor of Flanders , were both members of a powerful new family , the Erembalds , which had risen from servile origins to prominence by the route of comital administrative service . |
| 28 | The traditional compost for gardeners made from sterilised top-soil to which grit , sand and fertilisers have been added . |
| 29 | In Ceylon it was discovered that mountain areas could produce fresh vegetables which could be conveyed from local stations to Colombo to provision passing ocean liners . |
| 30 | It envisaged the development of other commercial ranches ( albeit government-owned ) ; the provision of credit to a selection of pastoral cattle keepers ( for water supplies , improved grazing and other facilities ) ; a great improvement in the system by which cattle were transported from grazing areas to abattoirs ; and the re-equipment and expansion of the existing export meat-packing plant . |