Example sentences of "from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As ever , rank-and-file Party members and local trades union officials provided the core of the listening web which was supposed to embrace all citizens of Romania from cradle to grave . |
| 32 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 33 | They should also inform shoppers as to the product 's environmental friendliness from cradle to grave — evaluated according to standardized criteria . |
| 34 | Attracted , presumably , by the bright whites and reds , it flits deftly from shirt to shirt , with no intention of going anywhere . |
| 35 | In Chapter 9 , we saw how expertise in research is different from expertise in teaching . |
| 36 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 37 | The rapid increase in the number of firms engaging in more than one type of investment business and the blurring of demarcation lines ( for example , between brokers and jobbers ) have made it more important than ever that investors are adequately protected against abuses arising from conflicts of interest within investment businesses . |
| 38 | Investor protection legislation overlaps with both prudential and structural regulation in that the investor is in theory protected from financial institutions becoming insolvent through excessive risk-taking and protected from conflicts of interest by separation of types of business , but also extends much further into the manner in which investment business is carried out — the size of commissions , advertising regulations , cold calling etc . |
| 39 | While it was generally agreed that these broad aims were appropriate , there were considerable difficulties in their detailed implementation , often arising from conflicts over land use . |
| 40 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 41 | FROM ENTITLEMENT TO OBLIGATION |
| 42 | In particular , the shifts from entitlement to discretion , exemplified by the Social Fund , and the exclusion of certain groups from the benefits system , notably 16- and 17-year olds . |
| 43 | The paragraphs being added to the database became part of a new book on hypertext entitled Hypertext : from Text to Expertext . |
| 44 | The same themes were reechoed in the second decade of the sixteenth century , when the government again began to take an interest in restraining enclosure , and attempted , sometimes successfully , to restore land from pasture to tillage . |
| 45 | Migrating from pasture to pasture with their herds of horses , cattle and other animals , they lived in a type of portable home ( ger ) consisting of a circular framework covered with felt ( which the Russians incorrectly called yuna ) . |
| 46 | However , on the last day , the Light Railway Transport League hired car No. 1 and 70 members made the journey from Highgate in North London , through the Kingsway subway , out onto the Embankment and via route 18 to Croydon and Purley . |
| 47 | But the research in the USSR had produced strong bursts of neutrons from reactions between deuterium nuclei . |
| 48 | Apart from skills in accounting , mathematics and communications , employers stressed the need for knowledge and skills in the use of computers and business software . |
| 49 | Thus , it is claimed , the economic and political environment is absolved from responsibility for disease and collective responses are rendered unnecessary . |
| 50 | Last Christmas the Post Office handled 1.5bn letters , cards and parcels ; this year , from 1p per stamp , it aims to raise up to £1m to help charities carrying out community projects . |
| 51 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |
| 52 | She spread her legs a little wider , as his mouth feasted upon her from arsehole to clitoris , slobbering over her saturated crotch . |
| 53 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 54 | ‘ This is what they get from arsehole to breakfast . |
| 55 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 56 | This opposition was initiated and had its structural base in the industrial sphere , more specifically , in the gas industry where a growing number of semiskilled workers suffered from intensification of work during the 1880s . |
| 57 | Besides , there were my domestic duties to perform , such as getting updated on Salome 's condition from Lisabeth at Mission Control , and feeding Springsteen . |
| 58 | Most of the relevant experimental evidence on this issue comes not from studies of latent inhibition but from investigations of conditioning itself . |
| 59 | In the spring of 1962 , Lord Mills , Macmillan 's favourite industrialist from Ministry of Housing days , was invited to chair a committee to examine the pros and cons , and came out in favour . |
| 60 | The shift from description to prescription in this formulation is interesting . |