Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 2 | Experts continue to disagree about how to extrapolate from one to the other , although it is generally accepted that even the smallest dose carries a health risk . |
| 3 | ‘ And so , ’ I continue , ‘ the suntan becomes fashionable and it 's no longer as necessary as it was — taking Robinson Crusoe by way of example — to hide from it under a parasol in order to conserve that fairness of skin threatened by the desert island climate . |
| 4 | This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency . |
| 5 | Since the insect and the scorpion are 30 genetic units distant from one another , it takes only 30 generations to evolve from one to the other if you never take a wrong turning ; if , that is , you know exactly what genetic formula you are heading towards , and how to steer towards it . |
| 6 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 7 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 8 | By and large most cognitive processes are a mixture of the two and in fact it depends on the context that you 're operating them in , we tend to be able to split from one to the other . |
| 9 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 10 | In fact , such was the response to our initial soundings that we now wish to broaden the discussions to include a much larger audience and would therefore be keen to hear from anyone with a view to express or , an interest in this area . |
| 11 | Cultins Road is due for demolition and New Edinburgh Ltd would like to hear from anyone with a three pound hammer and a strong arm who may be interested in the job . |
| 12 | The police would like to hear from anyone at the dance who may have seen the incident . |
| 13 | POLICE would like to hear from anyone in the Birch Road area of Headley Down at 9.45 p.m. on Saturday when a brick was thrown through the ground floor kitchen window of a house causing £30 worth of damage . |
| 14 | I would love to hear from anyone in the same situation . |
| 15 | They said it appeared the death was not suspicious but they would like to hear from anyone in the area between 7am and 8am yesterday . |
| 16 | We 'd like to hear from you with the results of how you got on and how this book may have helped you decide what you want to do . |
| 17 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
| 18 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 19 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 20 | The FBI is trying to slide from one to the other , by stealth . |
| 21 | For instance , in a dry country , animals and plants work to maintain the fluid content of their cells , work against a natural tendency for water to flow from them into the dry outside world . |
| 22 | The contract includes agreement not only about what new skills and knowledge need to be learned but also about why they are needed , how they will be applied and what is expected to result from them within the school or office . |
| 23 | By the way erm for non-metro districts they can choose whether they can have election by thirds or not , and you do occasionally get r you do occasionally you can get , get very occasional examples of a , of a dis of a district council opting to switch from one to the other . |
| 24 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 25 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 26 | You know and getting to them , I know how to get from one to the other without going , you know ? |
| 27 | It is relatively easy to move from one to the other . |
| 28 | Doreen 's eyes continued to dart from one to the other ; then she made an attempt to put Lucy in her place by reminding her that she was merely a member of the staff . |
| 29 | In a situation where it is required to perform some task , the reaction time can be seen to include the following : ( a ) the time taken by the stimulus to activate the sense organ and for impulses to travel from it to the brain , ( b ) the central processes concerned with the identification of the signal and the response to it , and ( c ) the time required to energise the muscles and produce the correct response . |
| 30 | This passage haunted Eliot who was to quote from it in the original title of Poems , 1920 , as well as in Ash-Wednesday . |