Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grain went from Rumania to Danzig by sea , all the way round Europe , and still cost 30 per cent less than overland by rail . |
| 2 | Is it not a ridiculous situation when the motoring correspondent of The Times ( 30 Jan. ) describes how he intended travelling from Brighton to Birmingham by rail , but found that he could drive for one quarter of the price , despite sole occupancy of a largish estate car ? |
| 3 | In the same edition of The Times , their motor correspondent describes how he considered making the return journey from Brighton to Birmingham by rail , but found that he could drive for one quarter the cost of a second-class fare , despite being the sole occupant of a largish estate car . |
| 4 | A rise in average temperature of around 0.5 degrees centigrade — as predicted in current climate models — could result in the hay fever season lasting from March until September by the year 2050 , when southern Britain 's climate is likely to be akin to that prevailing presently in south-west France . |
| 5 | Right so that was C one , C two it is a hundred and fifty miles from Hereford to London by rail Hereford is north of Cheltenham , it 's going up from Cheltenham is Hereford the first train in the morning takes three hours for the journey what 's its average speed ? |
| 6 | A decision taken at an emergency session of the Arab League Council , meeting in the Egyptian capital , Cairo , on Sept. 10 , to transfer the bulk of organization 's departments and affiliated apparatus from Tunis to Cairo by Oct. 31 , provoked a sharp reaction from some members countries not in attendance . |
| 7 | The foundry supplied some 42 spans of varying sizes which enabled the natives to travel from Benares to Calcutta by through train . |
| 8 | All work will transfer from Worcester to Ashchurch by September . |
| 9 | Brian had raced from Devon to Heathrow by helicopter , planning to take a Concorde flight to join his family at the hospital . |
| 10 | These two sums of money were then transferred from England to Jersey by being paid , on the instructions of Mr. Ferriday , a director and chairman of the company , to the credit of a bank account held by Ryco Trust Ltd. , a Jersey company , with Hambros Jersey . |
| 11 | However that may be , they were removed , with the assistance of troops if Osbern can be believed , and accompanied from Rochester to Canterbury by Queen Emma and Harthacnut ; Cnut remained in London . |
| 12 | Indeed , coastal trading may be the only explanation for the peculiar distributions of some species , e.g. Exotheca abyssinica ( Gramineae ) in tropical East Africa and Vietnam and may account for that of Stylosanthes humilis ( ‘ S. sundaica' , Leguminosae ) , which was perhaps taken from Brazil to Malesia by the Portuguese . |
| 13 | Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning . |
| 14 | Can you tell me how to get Staithes and get to Scarborough and get to from Scarborough to Whitby by bus presumably . |
| 15 | Between 1985–6 journeys from Swindon to Paddington increased by 16 per cent , from Bath to Paddington by 12 per cent and from Bristol to Paddington by 20 per cent . |
| 16 | The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false . |
| 17 | In continuation of the policy of decentralization in progress over the past few years , Prime Minister Edith Cresson announced on Nov. 7 that the École Nationale d'Administration ( ENA ) , the elite civil service school , was to be transferred from Paris to Strasbourg by 2000 to strengthen links with Europe . |
| 18 | Many diverse schools still come from Okinawa , but it is generally accepted that the mainstay of much of the karate that is practised in the world today is the original shotokan style , brought from Okinawa to Japan by karate 's modern-day founder and innovator , Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 19 | Between 1985–6 journeys from Swindon to Paddington increased by 16 per cent , from Bath to Paddington by 12 per cent and from Bristol to Paddington by 20 per cent . |
| 20 | Klementiev of the USSR took the C1 from Bouchalov of Bulgaria by a mere 0.07 sec . |
| 21 | One rainy afternoon in November 1982 , when 1 was returning from Basrah to Baghdad by car , we were overtaken and swept along by the motorized column of President Saddam himself . |
| 22 | But Hirst is also very different from the teenager signed from Barnsley for £200,000 by Howard Wilkinson , overawed by the move , size of Sheffield Wednesday , and so unfamiliar with professional routine that he ordered a plate of bacon butties for his pre-match meal . |
| 23 | The son of a wealthy London merchant , Lethieullier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; he knew both William and John Hunter , who in turn must have been aware of his collection of Egyptian antiquities , amongst which were some mummies brought back from Egypt to Aldersbrook by Lethieullier 's cousin , Colonel William Lethieullier . |
| 24 | He wanted to discover a new sea route from Europe to China by sailing west instead of east . |
| 25 | They had to journey from Heathrow to Edinburgh by overnight coach and check out of their Edinburgh hotel two hours before the kick-off because they could not afford to remain there after the match . |
| 26 | Roderick Random need not have elected to travel from Newcastle to London by road . |
| 27 | Another time when I was walking with Tony we paused for an hour at Malham to break a long day 's walk from Langcliffe to Arncliffe by Malham and Yew Cogar Scar by the old monks ' road . |
| 28 | This report was filed from Tokyo on Tuesday by James Mates : |
| 29 | It is 4,348 kilometres from Perth to Sydney by rail and , except in spring when the flat underbelly of the continent is carpeted with wild flowers , the first barren miles of the Nullarbor Plain from the Latin meaning " no trees " east of Perth look the same as the next . |
| 30 | An Israeli nuclear technician , Mordechai Vananu , who came to London and gave away details of Israel 's nuclear weapon plant at Dimona in the Negev desert , was lured from London to Rome by an attractive Mossad agent , then kidnapped , brought back to Israel and put on trial . |