Example sentences of "are [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 2 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 3 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 4 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
| 5 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 6 | Presumably the remaining 20% are formed from combinations of these four classifications : |
| 7 | Colloids are distinguished from suspensions by the size of the dispersed particles . |
| 8 | Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour . |
| 9 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 10 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 11 | Sadly , Arthur Hellyer is also no longer with us , he died last week at the age of 90 ; two of his titles are to appear from Hamlyn in March : The Hellyer Pocket Guide ( £4.99 ) and The Hellyer Gardening Encyclopedia ( £14.99 , 0 600 57645 0 ) . |
| 12 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 13 | Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time . |
| 14 | Flakes of a fatty substance are excreted from glands between the joints on the underside of the worker bee 's abdomen . |
| 15 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 16 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 17 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
| 18 | The three departments , however , do use official statistics in the detailed studies which are done from time to time on a one-off basis . |
| 19 | Red-necked Grebes have been recorded in every month from August to May , but most are seen from October to February . |
| 20 | The king and his brother are seen from time to time , if infrequently — and appear lively and in good health . |
| 21 | Killer whales and pilot whales belong to the group known as ‘ toothed whales ’ ( and are related to the dolphins ) and both are seen from time to time around Shetland . |
| 22 | Yet they are saved from sentimentality by the wry humour of both text and pictures . |
| 23 | It is important that the world 's under exploited plants are saved from extinction as if the plants were utilised properly they could help reduce occurrences of famine as the varieties of plants are suitable to many different climates . |
| 24 | The retirement age in Japan is often as low as 50 years , so Japanese old people are turned from producers into consumers long before their time . |
| 25 | Bedrooms are airconditioned from June to September . |
| 26 | Consider a translate instruction in which ( a ) The source and destination strings are scanned from right to left ; ( b ) Each entry in the translation table contains both a value to be inserted in the destination string , and the address of a new translation table for the next source character . |
| 27 | We are mesmerised by the mystery of young women 's bodies , trying to unlock their secrets with words that are whispered from desk to desk . |
| 28 | Small amounts of contaminants are transferred from mother to foetus , but much greater quantities are passed to the suckling young through her milk . |
| 29 | Some compartments in the model could be subdivided : for example , radionuclides are transferred from animals to people by drinking milk or by eating the animal meat , and while the consumption of milk is a fast pathway , that of meat is slower . |
| 30 | The cards are marked in such a way that stitches are transferred from right to left on some rows and from left to right on other rows , so avoiding a bias . |