Example sentences of "from [noun] [prep] [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction .
2 As an encore , water miraculously expands , just on the point of freezing ; in fact , as its temperature falls from 4°C to 0°C it expands by 10 per cent .
3 As it was too large to be put on a lorry to be moved from site to site it had to travel on roads under its own power and was held to be intended to be used on roads .
4 From evidence on cross-addiction it seems likely that addictive disease is one disease with many facets and that any sufferer from any addictive disease might benefit from following the recommendations for all addictions .
5 Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne .
6 When you do all the sums and move all the money from pocket to pocket it looks as if there is an increase of between 2 to 2.5 per cent and that is almost the difference between the previous inflation forecast of 3.5 per cent and the present inflation forecast of 5.75 per cent .
7 The whole point about this absurd saga , however , is not so much the wonderfully comic detail but the fact that from start to finish it takes all the predictable twists and turns of your classic affair .
8 Finally , as prices range from £15,190 to £26,910 it represents superb value for such a high specification .
9 Yeah , he 's there from Barnsley up Birmingham it says that were a hundred miles away where we got 'em to drop the money off
10 From tip to toe it gives almost 900 ′/270m; of verticality .
11 If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field .
12 From time to time it contracted , and Davies saw a small pale mass ejected .
13 The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed .
14 ‘ But from time to time it has been right to reconsider its detailed application .
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