Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb base] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 2 | All the research programmes have come from approaches made to the Unit and have involved extensive discussions , sometimes over a long period , but not for bureaucratic reasons . |
| 3 | Atmospheric methane concentrations have increased from a level of 0.8 ppm about 150 years ago to around 1.7 by 1990 ( Khalil and Rasmussen , 1987 ; UN IPCC , 1990a ) as cattle populations have risen , rice cultivation has expanded , fossil fuels have been extracted in growing amounts and forests burned . |
| 4 | Over the last decade , during a time in which the UK balance of payments has slipped heavily into deficit , Scotch whisky export earnings have increased from around £750 million to £l , 800 million last year . |
| 5 | Since this Government came to power , while the nation 's trade has slipped heavily into deficit , Scotch Whisky export earnings have risen from around £702 million in 1979 to £1,958 million in 1992 . |
| 6 | Well-known mistakes in extrapolating species trees from protein trees have arisen from lateral gene transfers , unrecognized paralogy ( duplication of genes before separation of the lineages under investigation ) and unequal rates of evolution . |
| 7 | In that time , car sales have rocketed from 180 a year to 2,000 new cars , about 1,500 used and 350 vans . |
| 8 | New car registrations have risen from 99,000 in 1989 to 140,000 last year . |
| 9 | Gillette products , particularly its best-selling Sensor range have benefited from constant heavyweight TV support , enabling it to gain an estimated 55 per cent share by value of the £75m market , compared with Wilkinson Sword 's 24 per cent . |
| 10 | That is that is where the migration projections have come from . |
| 11 | County and borough council reactions have varied from sympathetic to dismissive , she said . |
| 12 | Other habitat losses have resulted from farm mechanisation which , requiring larger and more conveniently-shaped fields , has resulted in much hedge and scrub clearance . |
| 13 | Our net operating margins have risen from six point four per cent to eight point six per cent . |
| 14 | Interim profits at scientific measurement and opto-electronic specialist Renishaw Plc have suffered from falling demand in many of the group 's OEM markets . |
| 15 | Based on the argument outlined above , measures of inter-hemispheric transfer time have ranged from around 3 msec . |
| 16 | All the Spelling Correctors are based upon the excellent wordlist Franklin have licensed from Merriam Webster and on which the famous US dictionary is based . |
| 17 | The results of these factors have been that several of the new ‘ one-stop shop ’ security houses have withdrawn from market making . |
| 18 | Many complaints of lead contamination have arisen from failure to observe this precaution . |
| 19 | Most shocking of all colleagues , over eight hundred and fifty thousand of those job losses have come from our already shattered manufacturing base . |
| 20 | Business bankruptcies have jumped from 28,935 in 1990 to 47,777 in 1991 . |
| 21 | At the same time , a growing share of those older people who remain in work until ‘ normal ’ retirement age have moved from their main or life-time job to another , less-skilled , part-time , temporary or self-employed job . |
| 22 | Business profits have increased from 3 per cent in 1979 to 1 o per cent in 1987 . |
| 23 | Over the last three years , tiger numbers have fallen from 44 to 15 , raising fears for their viability . |
| 24 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
| 25 | Lindsey was the first of the warbird operators in the UK to own and fly a Corsair , several more examples of the best wing bird have arrived from the USA since , with Britain 's population of this impressive World War Two fighter currently standing ( including Lindsey 's and the static KD431 at Yeovilton ) at five . |
| 26 | A key characteristic of information technology is the decentralisation of computer operations — computer terminals have moved from specialist data processing departments into the rest of the establishment . |
| 27 | How could all those wonderful , light , fairy designs have come from this dreary-looking lady ? |
| 28 | Overall complaints about car boot sales have risen from virtually nil to around ten a week in just two years . |
| 29 | Listener measures have ranged from the simple identification of the target , where binary scores are noted ( correct or incorrect ) , to the ability to recognize and act on ambiguity . |
| 30 | Not many genuine tinfoil records have survived from the 1870s ( 2 ) . |