Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , a conference of the Society for Experimental Biology at Lancaster University heard new information about the possible risks to crops from increased UVB radiation levels . |
| 2 | But we have to say that the er the individual risks to patients from the radiation used in examinations are very very low . |
| 3 | The consumer 's physical safety is considered in the Consumer Safety Act , 1978 , which draws up regulations to minimise risks to consumers from potentially dangerous products , such as oil heaters , electric blankets and certain children 's toys . |
| 4 | Regulations , however , have failed to address the mounting risks to consumers from pollution and chemical waste , which share the water with the seafood . |
| 5 | The aim is to improve the scientific basis of investigation and management in the practice of environmental health and to equip participants with the strategic skills to assess and advise on the control of the risks to health from the environment . |
| 6 | The study — ‘ Pesticides , Chemicals and Public Health ’ argues that although the levels are rarely fatal , little is known about the risks to health from long term exposure . |
| 7 | The department use outside advisors to help with ethnic menus for conferences from special Afro-Caribbean dishes for the Black Housing Association to recipes from an old lady in Keswich for the Vegetarian Society of Great Britain 's annual conference . |
| 8 | Just as the coastal cities were subjected throughout the centuries to incursions from the interior by the forces of whichever power held sway beyond the mountains — Byzantines , Hungarians , Serbs and Turks — so the tranquillity of the Mediterranean climate is brutally violated from time to time by the icy blasts of the bura . |
| 9 | There would be a boost to industry from the greater net disposable income , and at no cost to the consumer in need , because VAT does not apply to food and necessities . |
| 10 | In general , though , the feedback to theory from many social enquiries has been almost incidental , since much research actually concerned with collecting first-hand information has been orientated to solving practical social problems , and much theoretical work has not been backed up by actual field investigations . |
| 11 | The Group 's North American cabling operations , which acquired Reynolds Metals Electrical Division in September , reduced losses to £2m from £3m last time . |
| 12 | The calendar year just finished , 1991 , brought new record levels of inward investment to Wales from overseas and the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | This was true to some extent in France where , by the turn of the century , it was necessary to articulate more forcefully to the government employers ' opposition to labour legislation in view of ‘ the apparent receptivity of lawmakers to demands from Socialists and organised labour for assistance ’ ( Kuisel , 1981 , p. 20 ) . |
| 14 | Profits before tax and asset disposals showed an increase of 26pc from £1.2m to £1.6m but the pre-tax figure dipped 34pc to £2.02m from £3.05m caused by a marked reduction in asset disposals . |
| 15 | One lawyer says the aggregate loss to Americans from tobashi runs into hundreds of millions of dollars . |
| 16 | The deadweight loss to consumers from lower output and higher prices is measured by the triangle A , but society gains because output is now p produced using less resources . |
| 17 | It will mean thousands of acres of farmland will be out of bounds to hunts from this autumn . |
| 18 | Or can a more positive interpretation be sustained , with France emerging as a close rival to Britain from the eighteenth century onwards ? |
| 19 | Damaged by its losses — which were reduced by $80m by the time the quarter ended — Comdisco had its credit rating chopped and reported a net loss for the quarter ended December 31 , 1987 , of $56m … despite a growth in revenue to $327m from $268m . |
| 20 | Jack and Ann Gilmore , from Avon Court , Newton Aycliffe , worked in clubs and pubs from Wheatley Hill to Workington from 1959 until their retirement . |
| 21 | And a letter of 30 August 1934 is particularly interesting , since it is rather plainly a reply to protests from Binyon about Pound 's contemptuous treatment of Rubens . |
| 22 | Tamm attributes his decision to embark on this long-term programme to stimulus from Romell , a distinguished Swedish ecologist and soil scientist . |
| 23 | He knew about Lamarck 's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics , but dismissed this as a secondary process that could not account for the whole range of adaptations ( he must also have been aware of the strong opposition to Lamarckism from Owen and the conservative forces in science ) . |
| 24 | Opposition to development from lower income groups is more likely to be motivated by anger at the focus on up-market housing than by a desire to preserve a golden past which they are well aware has never existed . |
| 25 | The 1971 Act also effectively discriminated against black workers by the introduction of the concept of ‘ patrials ’ , which was intended to distinguish persons with close ties to Britain from those without and give them the right to reside in Britain . |
| 26 | A verse by Sighvat says that famous princes have brought their heads to Cnut from Fife to buy peace ; where this fits in is not clear , although as it also refers to St Olaf , and in the past tense , his death in 1030 had evidently occurred before it was composed . |
| 27 | Younis and Wasim Akram added 46 for the ninth wicket , taking Pakistan to victory from the depths of 95 for 8 |
| 28 | Then , while Leith was wondering which stranger to Jimmy from which department had called in her absence , his cheerful face was splitting from ear to ear as he asked , ‘ Do I congratulate you or your fiancé ? ’ |
| 29 | Asner is no stranger to arm-twisting from advertisers . |
| 30 | The United Front was openly being used to gain converts to Communism from the ILP and the Labour Party and , if possible , to split these organizations . |