Example sentences of "from [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intersleek works by preventing water-borne organisms from sticking to steel and concrete surfaces . |
| 2 | ‘ There are 15,000 UN troops in Bosnia who have managed to save 400,000 civilians from starving to death . |
| 3 | Over time familiarity speeds the process from forming to performing . |
| 4 | He said Labour , Conservative and Lib Dems have refused to share a debate with Dr Clarke but he warned the BNP would not be prevented from going to election meetings in the town . |
| 5 | He knew whether or not he would benefit from going to church . |
| 6 | Regulating what adolescents knew about sex , and preventing them from going to bed with their girlfriends or boyfriends , had become difficult . |
| 7 | Although the jurisdiction to stay a pending prosecution is undoubted , it is equally beyond doubt that the discretion to prevent a prosecution from going to trial should be very sparingly exercised . |
| 8 | If Hilary Robarts thinks she has been libelled and seeks redress I ca n't prevent her from going to law . ’ |
| 9 | It was quite different from going to school in London . |
| 10 | The solution to this problem was helped by N. G. Heatley , a young biochemist also from Hopkins 's laboratory in Cambridge , who had been prevented by the outbreak of war from going to work in the Carlsberg laboratories in Copenhagen . |
| 11 | The context will prevent this ambiguity from leading to confusion . |
| 12 | REJECTED the lease of 12 miles of the W.H.R trackbed from Dines to Rhyd-ddu . |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is regrettable that the same unions that stopped the sick from getting to hospital in 1978 and 1979 are showing the same callous disregard — or at least their leaderships are doing so — for the needs of patients ? |
| 14 | After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour and struck their yards in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea . |
| 15 | TREE surgeon Robin Teasdill , 34 , stopped himself from bleeding to death by holding the main artery of his leg together for 15 minutes . |
| 16 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 17 | We saw that the chief consequence of the change from foraging to hunting was the restitution of the primal father in the totem-animal which was worshipped , and also in the totemic taboos in which his moral authority lived on . |