Example sentences of "of [pron] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blame for this fiasco is being laid at the door of everyone from teachers to examiners . |
| 2 | Erm , mainly out of perversity , I do admit , because I must be the only social scientist of my generation who 's read all of them from cover to cover . |
| 3 | Kidneys are usually obtained from dead people and many of them from victims of road accidents . |
| 4 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 5 | It is a real link , not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ relationship . |
| 6 | WML is a real link not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ . |
| 7 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 8 | The order consists of everything from baths to bathroom tiles . |
| 9 | Hunting is the favourite pastime ; at the start of the season , high schools close as whole families go off in pursuit of everything from squirrels to wild boar . |
| 10 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 11 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 12 | The audience can pick up the dramatic thread running through the cadenza and make sense of it from beginning to end . ’ |
| 13 | There has been much criticism of the government 's housing policy , much of it from organisations outside parliament . |
| 14 | Central government may assign a local authority a large guideline figure for capital expenditure but also assume it will finance a lot of it from sales of council houses , for example , and hence give a small credit approval . |
| 15 | The routine of the annexe on Friday after school was disturbed by Mr Crumwallis making ineffectual invasions of it from time to time . |
| 16 | They need to be rooted out of themselves from time to time . |
| 17 | Would you like to , to explain what from strength to strength means or whether I 've got my figures wrong erm a and , and perhaps give an idea of what from strength to strength will mean in coming years ? |
| 18 | Essentially it is atomic billiards ; a beam of atoms fired at the surface of anything from glass to an industrial catalyst dislodges ions from the specimen 's top one or two atom layers for analysis by mass spectrometry . |
| 19 | Much of it is a matter of planning and approach , and most of us from time to time talk with colleagues and seek advice from older and perhaps wiser hands . |