Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 2 | These seem to come from two kinds of sources ; either the Theatre Games of Viola Spolin ( 1963 ) or an extension of the widening of activities in drama lessons introduced by Brian Way . |
| 3 | 1906 is probably best remembered for the great earthquake in San Francisco , which resulted in fire and general destruction of the city ; also the Simplon tunnel through the Alps was completed , allowing railway traffic to pass from one side of that range of mountains , to the other . |
| 4 | The ninety acres of entrancing if formalized beauty of the park , crossed by paths so convenient that they might have been purposefully designed to lead from one centre of power to another , must , he thought , have heard more secrets than any other part of London . |
| 5 | There is room inside the wall for horsemen and infantry to march from one end of the town to the other … |
| 6 | Every object in these paintings is separated from those surrounding it by layers of tactile , visible space which enable the spectator 's eye to reach from one part of the canvas to another , from one object to another , by a series of clearly defined pictorial passages . |
| 7 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 8 | But even as she went over all this she continued to hurry from one section of the store to another , searching , her heart thumping . |
| 9 | A right hand response to a left field presentation ( indirect or crossed reaction ) , however , would mean that the hemisphere initiating the manual response is not the hemisphere receiving the stimulus and therefore some finite interval of time is required for a nervous impulse to cross from one half of the brain to the other in order to generate a response . |
| 10 | Even if they had political or ideological grounds for doing so , the heat and publicity of the contest , the expectations of fellow-tribesmen and of the opposing side , and the subsequent social sanctions , would indeed have made it difficult to cross from one end of the pitch to the other in the middle of the ballot . |
| 11 | The user must be able to predict from one part of the semantic net what is likely to be in another , analogous part of the semantic net . |
| 12 | If the fish is to be saved , the abstraction will have to be cut back significantly , at a time when the state is only beginning to emerge from seven years of drought . |
| 13 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 14 | This was originally discovered in birds , where seed-eaters were seen to switch from one type of seed to another from time to time , regardless of the nutritional similarity of the seeds . |
| 15 | It was by no means uncommon for teachers to switch from one type of grouping to another as the activities of individuals and groups of children changed . |
| 16 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 17 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 18 | Even in gallery , he wrote , it will disturb no one , merely make it a little more difficult to get from one side of the room to the other . |
| 19 | There was nothing unique in this ; it was n't uncommon in the lanes to find oneself stuck behind a slow-moving tractor with a twelve-year-old in the cab , using public highways to get from one piece of a farm to another . |
| 20 | They 've stepped down here to get from one piece of pavement to another , yet they look like they spent their whole lives underground . |
| 21 | Witness Poland , which has been the first to recover from three years of relentless slump . |
| 22 | The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) . |
| 23 | East Anglian RMT spokesman Peter King said BR employees were prepared to move from one part of the country to another to avoid compulsory redundancies . |
| 24 | The inhabitants , therefore , may have to move from one part of the nest to another to find the most comfortable conditions . |
| 25 | Of the ‘ Town Arms ’ it was complained by the police that , ‘ No respectable person was seen to enter from one end of the week to the other ’ . |
| 26 | However , according to calculations produced by the policy Studies Institutes and noted in The Economist ( 12 March 1988 ) ‘ the overall impact of the reforms will simply be to redistribute from one group of the very poor to another ’ . |
| 27 | No one could identify the problem — indeed , the symptoms varied considerably and seemed to travel from one part of her body to another . |