Example sentences of "[conj] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a general rule stimuli which are heard within , or from part of a linguistic context give rise to an advantage for the right ear whereas stimuli heard within a non-linguistic context are more likely to show a superiority favouring the left ear . |
| 2 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 3 | Environmental degradation , whether resulting from pollution or from overuse of natural resources , does not respect the boundaries of states . |
| 4 | Certain categories of material ( such as archaeology , and fiction about London ) are excluded either because they are covered elsewhere , or from shortage of space . |
| 5 | This allows for a far greater sophistication of analysis because it recognises that the state and the policies it pursues may well be a result of internal conflicts within the state or due to conflicts between fractions of the capitalist class or from struggle by classes opposed to capitalism . |
| 6 | Lorrimer would hardly have risked telephoning from the Laboratory or from home in the evenings when he , Howarth , might have taken the call . |
| 7 | The move from verse to prose can often signify a drop in seriousness , to mockery or ridicule ; from tension to relaxation ; or from public to private discourse . |
| 8 | Example 4 still remains a problem , but it may be that books could be suggested as more likely than boots from semantic co-occurrence information , or from frequency of use from a corpus ( books is five times more likely to occur than boots ) , especially if weighted from a count of occurrence in the script recognised so far . |
| 9 | They are present in house dust ; they stick to clothing , carpets , towels and bedlinen ; they can also be picked up in garden soil , on unwashed vegetables and salads , or from contact with someone who already has worms . |
| 10 | Ultimately , of course , it does n't matter where or when the music was composed , and I urged any reader with an ear for beauty — whether your tastes habitually range from Mozart to early Beethoven , or from Bartók to Stockhausen , or anywhere in between or beyond — to investigate this CD forthwith . |
| 11 | They were protected from trampling or from modification from any source other than weathering , and some protection was provided against wind , but despite this most of the bones have been blown away . |
| 12 | The interests of the Directors and of the Company Secretary in the shares of the Company at the dates shown ( or from date of appointment if after 31 December 1991 ) together with particulars of their holdings and those of immediate families , were : |
| 13 | In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away . |
| 14 | Subsequent annual measurements , made at more than 20 triangulated stations , have revealed that ice motion and ablation are not uniform from place to place or from year to year . |
| 15 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 16 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 17 | ( 1 ) Where premises are let under a tenancy which puts on the landlord an obligation to the tenant for the maintenance or repair of the premises , the landlord owes to all persons who might reasonably be expected to be affected by defects in the state of the premises a duty to take such care as is reasonable in all the circumstances to see that they are reasonably safe from personal injury or from damage to their property caused by a relevant defect . |
| 18 | Were you to want to travel truly scenically from Bayonne to Cambo , or from Cambo to Bayonne for that matter , then you would take the road very magnificently known as the Route Impériale tea Cimes , or ‘ Imperial Route of the Peaks ’ , which lies east of the main road and is many times more beautiful . |
| 19 | Likewise , if past convention has made a particular layout familiar ( such as time increasing downwards or from left to right ) , a change should be considered only if a clear advantage is to be gained . |
| 20 | The shortest lag occurs where the interpreter does not understand the message and merely transposes the message from one language to the other ; in BSL the transposition occurs from English to signed English , or from BSL to spoken signs . |
| 21 | What counts as better or worse with respect to scientific theories will vary from individual to individual or from community to community . |
| 22 | They correct their own pronunciation , e.g. , fwo to fwog ( for frog ) ; their own morphology , e.g. , the man go to the man going or the man 's going ; and their own lexical choices , e.g. , from ship to boat ( for a rowing-boat ) , or from shoe to sandal ( for a sandal ) . |
| 23 | Cross-references forward , whether from OED to itself or from Supplement to itself , are either non-existent , inaccurate , or ( occasionally ) ghosts ( because the object of the cross-reference never materialized in print for some reason ) . |
| 24 | However , it is an emotion that leads many of us to play games — either by denying we feel angry , or by squashing it in an effort to be seen as reasonable , easygoing and likeable , or from fear of being rejected . |
| 25 | It make no difference at all , electronically speaking , whether the line is printed from left to right or from right to left and most modern printers are capable of bi-directional printing . |
| 26 | HIV spreads between people who have sexual intercourse together , or who share needles when injecting drugs , or from mother to unborn child . |
| 27 | Whether you want to change your personality from night to day , from work to play or from mother to managing director , the way you wear your hair speaks more clearly than your clothes do . |
| 28 | Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those |
| 29 | A plasma prolactin concentration which is raised but is less than this can originate from a small prolactin secreting tumour ( microadenoma ) or from loss of normal inhibitory control by dopamine , as seen in compression of the pituitary stalk . |
| 30 | The resident species include stocks that breed far to the north in summer , and in autumn move south to the warmer tundra , or from tundra to warmer coastlands , to avoid the harshest winter conditions . |