Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the most advanced industrial building of its time : it was designed from the start to be powered by steam ( with engines supplied by Samuel 's partners in the enterprise , Matthew Boulton and James Watt , qq.v. ) , and was one of the first to incorporate a brick raft foundation . |
| 2 | Even I shed a tear when the coffin was carried from the church to a recording of Jack Charlton 's ‘ Geordie Sunday ’ . |
| 3 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 4 | On 22 February 1986 the deceased was transferred from the hospital to Samuel Saye House . |
| 5 | From 1 April a new statutory payment and accounting system for gold came into force under which the responsibility for paying VAT on gold transactions was transferred from the seller to the buyer . |
| 6 | It was crammed from the cellars to the roof space with furniture , pictures , sculptures , jewellery and objets d'art . |
| 7 | Sarah Hughes mentioned that a response was needed from the Union to Tim Mould 's paper on career development/equal opportunities . |
| 8 | Concurrently biliary cholesterol was shifted from the vesicular to the non-vesicular carrier(s) while the cholesterol/phospholipid ratio of the remaining vesicles was progressively lowered . |
| 9 | One East Berliner was driven from the crossing to Charlottenburg , three miles away in the British sector , at the concessionary rate of 1 East Mark to 1 DeutscheMark , compared with the market rate of 10-1 , highlighting the fact that the only constraint on East Germans is now financial . |
| 10 | The first of these was converted from the abbey to great house in a very short time , a transaction made easier by Browne 's use of the abbot 's lodging as the centre of his new house . |
| 11 | Samir Geagea was escorted from the building to his home in Ghedras , north-east of Beirut . |
| 12 | Two weeks after my father 's release Dr Sambataro , faking appendicitis , was taken from the prison to the hospital in Parma , where the surgeons supported him in his pretence . |
| 13 | Gradually the burden was extended from the ports to the whole of the coastal shires , and then to inland towns and counties . |
| 14 | All that they would be tendering for would be to actually run the facility , and there 's no reason to suppose that a private contractor can do that any more cheaply , if they deliver the same quality of service , as the Local Authority can do , so it would n't actually save money , all it would do would mean that control of the level of service that was being delivered at those facilities was lost from the Council to a private contractor . |
| 15 | According to the Hottentots of South Africa , the hare was sent from the Moon to Earth with a message to give Man a symbol of hope : just as the Moon died and rose again , so Mankind should die and rise again . |
| 16 | Water freight also embraced coastal shipping , particularly for heavy loads , such as the coal which was sent from the Tyne to the Thames . |