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Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Suppose it wants to go from A to a point E that it can not see .
2	If someone wants to go from A to B , who else is competing to take that person there ?
3	I think some one has to walk from Nottingham to Dundee .
4	Now he wants to hear from members of staff who think they may have the answer .
5	Stephen Tyler-Upfield wants to switch from conversions into building for the first-time buyers he believes are now increasing there .
6	The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel .
7	Love has to move from idea to reality , and that is always God 's way — the way of incarnation .
8	If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative .
9	She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot .
10	On his ‘ China voyage ’ he plans to spend from May to October sailing the 4,500 miles up the coast of East Asia and riding what the Japanese call the kuroshio ( the black current ) to North America .
11	All business tends to suffer from periods of under-capitalisation which stifle investment and expansion plans .
12	An up Marylebone express prepares to depart from Victoria in 1951 hauled by A3 4–6–2 No. 60059 ‘ Tracery ’ — a regular loco on the GC lines both in the 30 's and 50's .
13	Our desire for food tends to vary from day to day .
14	Trade turnover with other countries , such as Colombia , Bolivia , Peru and Uruguay , still tends to fluctuate from year to year , lacking a coherent pattern of expansion .
15	Schnitke 's language seems to lunge from outburst to tranquil apology for his own excesses — simple , melodic threads he untangles from demonic cackle and sheer noise .
16	The circulation was a new record and four hundred and eighty five thousand , nine hundred by year end and it just seems to go from strength to strength .
17	‘ German research , ’ they added , ’ appears to suffer from lack of co-ordination … insufficient information is being paid to biological experimentation … ’
18	Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs .
19	The removal of the south Fife coalfield from a Lothian region based on Edinburgh has been criticised on similar political grounds to the slicing of Glamorgan into three counties : it appears to derive from considerations of Conservative Party advantage .
20	Its position seems to vary from case to case .
21	Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute .
22	But council policy seems to vary from authority to authority .
23	To change the government 's the policy if that 's what one calls it , it seems to change from year to year .
24	An alternative to dates is to use a term like Romantic , even if its meaning seems to alter from writer to writer .
25	Regardless of this , AIB Bank plc management is persisting , as it tries to wrest from staff in the UK the salary increases and allowances to which they are entitled .
26	The extensive range of Wedgwood jewellery has been complemented by the addition of fine bone china cameos and the collectability of Coalport figurines continues to go from strength to strength .
27	The argument begins to move from economics to politics .
28	Developed by the Transitions Research Corporation of Connecticut ( owned by Joe Engelberger ) , these refrigerator-sized robots find their way around with the aid of computerised floor maps , and can even , with the help of radio transmitters , use lifts to move from floor to floor .