Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The excess has been altered from 2% of the building value of 1% where accidental damage cover is included to a fixed sum of £1,000 each and every claim .
2 The following year 's prediction has been slashed from £314m to £270m .
3 The cost of a 25MHz 486SX has been slashed from £1,240 to £990 ; a 386SX from £845 to £710. 50MHz and 66MHz 486DX machines have also been introduced to the range , and the warranty on all computers now extends to three years instead of one .
4 High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat .
5 He added that in Sweden salmonella had been eradicated from poultry by vaccination but cases of food poisoning were still increasing .
6 Applications for next year 's Fellowships are invited from people aged eighteen to thirty .
7 THE cost limit on Commons written replies has been raised from £400 to £450 , Stephen Dorrell , the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , announced in a Commons written reply last night .
8 In all , some £24 billion had been raised from sales by the end of 1988 .
9 In the UK , that means a 25MHz AV 4300 server with 1Mb RAM and 332Mb has been reduced from £12,500 to £9,000 , the same price as the AV 4100 entry-level system , still available but in effect now obsolete .
10 A London to Edinburgh Saver , for example , has been reduced from £59 to £53 .
11 The software products arm improved sales by 2.3% to £38.8m , or the remaining 9.5% of turnover , but research and development spend in this area has been reduced from £14m in 1991 to £13.2m in 1992 as a result of the agreement with IBM .
12 Terry Flanagan 's price has been reduced from £60,000 to £25,000 , Kevin Meadows is now on offer at £8,000 and Ian Sanderson at £20,000 .
13 The standard rate of tax has been reduced from 33p to 25p in the pound .
14 ( The shipping fares from Southampton to Singapore , which catered to a higher class of trade , had merely been reduced from £110 in the 1850s to £68 in the 1880s .
15 Frozen chicken thighs are reduced from £2.68 to £1.98 for 3lb and Kiwi fruit are 9p instead of 15p each .
16 Navy gaberdine trousers are reduced from £139 to £79 and grey flannel shirt-dresses from £159 to £99 .
17 Royalties yet to be received from sales of The Shamen 's limited-edition FACE EP , which has sold out , will go towards paying off our own legal bills .
18 At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 .
19 Work out the measurements of five more rectangles which can be made from 64cm of string and put your answers in the table shown below .
20 However they confirmed my suspicion that the system could n't be upgraded from 2Mb to 4Mb and , more importantly , the external port could n't be configured as Com1 .
21 The organism can be transmitted from fowl to fowl in the egg of Heterakis and in earthworms containing hatched larvae of the worm .
22 Eclipse and immature drakes can be told from duck by bill .
23 One indication of the importance of state pensions in increasing the financial security and independence of the bulk of the British population can be drawn from statistics of wealth distribution in England and Wales collected for the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth .
24 Up to high G any note in the instrument 's compass can be produced from ppp to fff with ease and certainty .
25 The savings limit will be raised from £3,000 to £6,000 with scaled deductions between these figures .
26 UP to £100,000 for homeless people could be raised from sales of a compilation album featuring pop giants Phil Collins and Annie Lennox .
27 But much can be inferred from statistics of births in any year to women who already have 0 , 1 , 2 , etc. children ( figure 4.13 ) .
28 And , with immediate effect , the minimum sum under the Government 's Gift Aid scheme which also allows individuals and companies to reclaim some income tax on charitable donations will be reduced from £400 to £250 .
29 The basic rate of income tax was to be reduced from 29p to 27p in the punt , and the upper 52 per cent tax rate was to be abolished , leaving a single higher rate of 48 per cent .
30 The little insert in the middle of the article , which I take it is not down to Sir Nicholas , is even more misleading because it suggests that the income eligibility limit on civil cases would be reduced from £3,060 to £2,293 .
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