Example sentences of "from [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total spending on the poor certainly rose from $13.4 billion in 1964 to $23.9 billion in 1969 . |
| 2 | Under pressure from the IMF " the established Central Bank rate " for the Egyptian pound was raised in September 1989 from Epounds 0.70 to Epounds 1.10 to the United States dollar as part of a planned six-year phaseout of the rate ; the " new bank rate " introduced in May 1987 ( see p. 35225 ) remained at Epounds 2.55 . |
| 3 | A rise in the unemployment rate from U 1 to U 2 tends to raise the proportion of that rate consisting of the long-term unemployed from LT 1 to LT 2 . |
| 4 | Their farm exports rose in value from $7.6 billion in 1971 to $17.6 billion in 1973 , and grain stocks fell from 23.5 million tons in the middle of 1972 to 7 million tons one year later . |
| 5 | Standards from groups such as OMG will ensure that various object technologies , including whatever DSOM evolves into , Taligent , Sun 's DOE and HP 's DOMF , share much common ground . |
| 6 | Standards from groups such as the Object Management Group will ensure that various object technologies , including whatever Distributed Systems Object Model evolves into , Taligent , Sun 's Distributed Objects Everywhere and Hewlett-Packard Co 's Distributed Object Management Facility , share much common ground . |
| 7 | We 've been running the management skills courses since nineteen eighty-six , and since then , more than seven hundred and fifty people , from groups such as yours , have taken a part , and we 're about to launch a phase two in the next er , year or so . |
| 8 | Its members will be drawn from groups sympathetic to the ideals and principles of inequality : in particular from the senior management of large-scale industry and commerce but also , of course , from local police forces . |
| 9 | Apart from cases such as those we have been discussing , where the industries are nearly perfectly contestable , there are other , more traditional cases where the industry is a natural monopoly but a long way from being naturally contestable . |
| 10 | While most of the cases which were decided under the heading of gross negligence would be decided the same way under reckless manslaughter , from cases such as Lamb , above , manslaughter by gross negligence may survive despite Lord Roskill 's statement in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R that the term was not to be used . |
| 11 | Yesterday , the Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based house-builder reported first-half profits nearly doubled , from £2.5 million at £4.8 million , and the restoration of the interim dividend at 1p , after passing it last time . |
| 12 | Interest charges fell from £2.5 million to under £500,0000 and gearing has been held at 29 per cent . |
| 13 | European operations last year absorbed £2.1 billion of the total , which was a drop from £2.5 billion in 1991 . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits soared from £21.4 million to almost £32 million and the company joined Iceland Frozen Foods yesterday in announcing turnover that topped £1 billion for the first time , jumping from £920 million to £1.05 billion . |
| 15 | Finally , Wittgenstein makes the point that if the language is ever to be used for communication , the terms in it can not get their meanings from objects private to one user of the language . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 17 | CATHOLIC HISTORY FROM VATICAN I TO JOHN PAUL II |
| 18 | Eurotunnel , the company financing and overseeing the construction of the rail tunnel between France and the UK [ see p. 35469 ] , announced on May 28 , 1990 , that it had secured additional finance from the European Investment Bank , which had agreed to an increase in the project 's borrowing commitment from £1,000 million to £1,300 million , and that the majority of the 210 international banks supporting the tunnel project had agreed to allow the project to continue to borrow on its prevailing £5,000 million funding capacity . |
| 19 | Our grant is set to rise from £5.7 million to £7.3 million in 1992 . |
| 20 | The three following quotations , taken from Part II of the manuscript , recover a few hitherto unsuspected facets of Thomas the young pre-Oxford writer . |
| 21 | This important first publication emerged from part II of the series , in which Lennard-Jones has demonstrated how in molecules with symmetry the molecular orbitals could be transformed into equivalent orbitals , which differed only in their orientation in the molecule . |
| 22 | It is clear from Part II of Schedule 12 , that the relevant maladministration , and hence administration , is not the conduct of the building societies ' business as a whole but only in those spheres of their activity falling within the prescribed matters of complaint . |
| 23 | begin where pertinent with highlights of current conditions and trends from Part II on the state of the environment ( although this means some overlap it should help the exposition ) ; |
| 24 | Successful completion of the BSc Ord Applied Computing leads to exemption from Part 1 of the British Computer Society professional examinations . |
| 25 | Successful completion of the BSc Ord Computing leads to exemption from Part 1 of the British Computer Society professional examinations . |
| 26 | Successful completion of this course leads to exemption from Part 1 of the British Computer Society professional examinations . |
| 27 | Successful completion of the first three years carries exemption from Part 1 of the Examination in Architecture of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and students at this stage may graduate BSc(SocSci) , but most continue to MA ( Honours in Architecture ) , taken at the end of Fourth Year . |
| 28 | The new right , referred to hereinafter as the " semiconductor design right " , draws heavily from Part III of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 which deals with the unregistered design right but with some differences as far as semiconductor topographies are concerned ( see Chapter 9 for a general description of the design right ) . |
| 29 | Approval is being sought from the British Computer Society for exemption from Part I of the professional examinations . |
| 30 | In the winter of 1984–5 the Government announced a cut in the annual grant for land drainage from £60 million to a projected average of £30 million , and stipulated that the emphasis should now be on urban flood protection , rather than improvement for agriculture . |