Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 20-a-day man or woman has spent from £360 to £713 a year on fags over the past 10 years . |
| 2 | DIOCESAN accounts show that investments have dropped from £4,327,000 at March 31 , 1989 , to £1,851,000 at March 31st this year . |
| 3 | Val says it was known that David had suffered from depression . |
| 4 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 5 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 6 | He was wearing the new jersey that Tom had collected from Mrs Fletcher . |
| 7 | Even last year , when her father was so ill , she and Susan had filled stockings for each other , and had such fun over the wonderful box of curios that Jack had sent from India . |
| 8 | Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3 , net investment has remained the same . |
| 9 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 10 | To the delight of the animal rights movement , Britain 's trade in real fur is in drastic decline , with manufacturing figures issued by the DTI showing that sales have plummeted from £56 million in 1986 to £11 million last year . |
| 11 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , in a report on Jan. 17 summarizing the activities of the ninth UN nuclear inspection team which visited Iraq on Jan. 12-14 , said that Iraq had acquired from Germany large quantities of components used to produce several thousand high-speed centrifuges for enriching weapons-grade uranium . |
| 12 | Both men had dealt in junk bond transactions , and it appeared that Bradley had benefited from insider dealing and preferential treatment in his dealings with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. , a major Wall Street investment house [ see below ] , and Michael Milken , a prominent financier . |
| 13 | Once Iraq had withdrawn from Kuwait , the Soviet Union and the United States would work with countries in the region to develop regional security structures and measures to promote peace and stability . |
| 14 | Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride . |
| 15 | The ghastly term that BT has stolen from IBM Corp for this is ‘ granular ’ billing . |
| 16 | Gossip has it that NT has slipped from summer to winter 1992 and now again to sometime in the first half of 1993 . |
| 17 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 18 | He also announced that Manoon and Chalerm had escaped from Bangkok , but when located would be arrested and charged with creating a situation detrimental to national security . |
| 19 | Two points off a relegation place and with no money to spend , they 're on Skid Row and Kendall has gone from prince to pauper . |
| 20 | I suspect the left hook with which he floored Ali in their first bout and the controversy aroused when referee Harry Gibbs decided Bugner had outpointed him will remain important entries in British boxing long after the widely-publicised arguments between Eubank and Benn have faded from memory . |
| 21 | This decade has seen the old bogey of progressive rock gradually replaced by progressive pop : the site for left-liberal well-meaning and pensiveness has shifted from concept albums and pomp rock , to the three-minute song and pop soul . |
| 22 | The species and ailments have varied from dogs needing surgery to iguanas feeling under the weather . |
| 23 | And Rickards had fled from London . |
| 24 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 25 | At the same time per capita income rose from S$1,330 to S$22,867 in 1991 , and unemployment has fallen from 11% to less than 2% . |
| 26 | The Company 's Pest Control service covering Norfolk and Suffolk has moved from Norwich where it operated for over 30 years . |
| 27 | Rochlin appropriates for masculinity , albeit in a form so highly selective it might hardly be recognized , that sense of the inherent instability of identity which Lacanians and others have taken from psychoanalysis for feminism . |
| 28 | Operational income has increased from £1.701 m to £1.792 m and expenditure has risen from £1.643 m to £1.754 m . |
| 29 | The proportion of holidays of four nights and above between October and April has grown from 14% in 1976 to 22% last year , while August holidays have slipped from 24% to 20% and July from 25% to 18% . |
| 30 | It is clear from the table that exports of goods and services have grown from £53 billion in 1977 to £159 billion in 1987 ( with a similar growth in imports ) , i.e. 11 per cent growth each year on average . |