Example sentences of "to it from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 2 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 3 | Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church . |
| 4 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 5 | When he returned to it from the telephone box outside , it was unoccupied . |
| 6 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
| 7 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 8 | The British Telecommunications Act 1981 established BT as a public corporation and transferred telecommunication functions to it from the Post Office . |
| 9 | Normal arrangements are for the purchaser to be entitled to the interest on the monies subsequently released to it from the retention accounts . |
| 10 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 11 | The countryside is so close you can walk to it from the city centre . |
| 12 | It was provided with a direct link to the London and North-Western 's Camden Station and so animals were driven direct to it from the trains . |
| 13 | Whether you 'd break into to it from the front , from the side , the back that sort of thing . |
| 14 | Lakatos assumed that any field of enquiry that does not share the main characteristics of physics is not science and is inferior to it from the point of view of rationality . |
| 15 | An agent residing on each client provides the machine with operating operating parameters delivered to it from the application residing on an administrator 's host system . |
| 16 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |