Example sentences of "[n mass] [v-ing] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa .
2 Forty vintage aircraft flying from London to Australia !
3 Ly Tong , a former South Vietnamese air force pilot who had lived in the USA since the end of the Vietnam War , hijacked an aircraft flying from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City on Sept. 4 .
4 An eagle looking down from above implies a threat whereas a heron flying from A to B suggests a more peaceable purpose .
5 Mr Sells said data emerging from hospitals in Madras was offering an alternative where it was impractical and too expensive to treat large numbers of patients on dialysis machines .
6 The exception is Old Sarum , Old Salisbury , reoccupied for a time by folk fleeing from Wilton in the Danish raids of the opening of the eleventh century — and it survived to be the site of a cathedral and a Norman castle .
7 In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s .
8 It transpired that Hannah was well capable of coping with this sudden celebrity status , displaying a curiously ingenuous confidence as in later months she met people ranging from royalty to hard-nosed journalists , and completely disarmed them all .
9 We see many people going from Brighton to London every day and erm one might ask whether that 's entirely necessary .
10 It 's a voucher with a three day mini-cruise for two people sharing from Harwich to Hamburg or Harwich to Esbjerg to be used weekdays , valid until the twentieth of December and it 's worth a hundred and sixty quid .
11 This is a voucher worth a hundred and sixty pounds with for a three day mini-cruise for two people sharing from Harwich to Hamburg or Harwich to Esbjerg to be used weekdays , until the twentieth of December .
12 The study , which includes flame retardants , antioxidants , heat stabilisers , light stabilisers , colorants and blowing agents , forecasts an 18 per cent growth over the five year period with sales rising from $1200m in 1991 to $1300m in 1996 .
13 The presence or absence of a disability culture and the numbers of disabled people involved , frequency of performances and general social recognition for disability arts can provide important insights into the progress of disabled people moving from passivity to an active role in their own affairs .
14 At the moment , the number of people suffering from flu in Scotland is nowhere near those levels , but one or two football managers may well be feeling ‘ as sick as a parrot ’ because they did not think to have their highly-priced investments vaccinated before the winter began .
15 The borough 's numerous municipal housing estates and legacy of dockland neighbourhoods house people suffering from levels of deprivation and unemployment as severe as anywhere in the United Kingdom .
16 People did n't use to do that twenty thirty forty years ago so erm child sex abuse is very much on the agenda , both of professionals and also on the agenda of people suffering from sort of distress for which they are receiving professional help because um that 's one of the things which um I think more nowadays than before you find people encouraged to look for .
17 Respondents estimated an uncharged fixed cost per audit of £200 arising from compliance with audit regulation , and a variable cost of £100 per £100,000 of company turnover ( lower than the £175 estimated last year ) .
18 THE Health and Safety Executive in East Anglia says that the number of people falling from heights at work is a ‘ cause for concern . ’
19 Taking a perfect performance as the comprehension of hearing people working from memory of an audio-recorded message , deaf people 's performance after interpretation was , on average , around 60 per cent .
20 The group is run by its members with a full time executive officer drawing on the resources of a total 1,150 staff stretching from Exeter to Edinburgh .
21 Its figures unveiled last week showed a leap of 33% to £36.5m with nearly £8m stemming from interest on its £155m cash pile .
22 Telomeric DNAs have been isolated from numerous evolutionary distant species ranging from yeast to human .
23 We made the decision to go despite the lack of an organized UK presence — we are on-air with a new series running from January to March 1991 and we wanted to make contacts before then , rather than wait for MIP-TV to come around in April .
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