Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] from one " in BNC.

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1 A : what have you got to do this afternoon B : oh I 'm * going to repair the child bar A : what do you mean CHILD bar B : uh it 's er metal bar goes acr — has to be fixed from one side of the car I mean from one side of the back seat to the other for the BABY seat to go on A : AH …
2 So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another .
3 This is commonly done where information needs to be transferred from one computer to another as in banking or for the operation of a fax machine .
4 If a vehicle needs to be temporarily substituted for one of the operator 's authorized vehicles or a vehicle needs to be transferred from one operating centre to another the LA does not need to be informed .
5 Instead we can design a computer which has as its instruction set a set of primitive operations ( or micro-instructions ) , to cause control signals to be Sent to the various parts of the computer , and data to be transferred from one processor register to another .
6 It comprises a transmitter and a portable receiver which is designed to be moved from one location to another as required .
7 Mobility , ie liability to transfer to anywhere in the United Kingdom or abroad , is a condition of most Civil Service appointments at roughly Executive Officer level and above , and in certain other grades where the nature of the work requires staff to be moved from one location to another .
8 Chairman if it 's possible for the , for the pelican crossing to be , to be moved from one place can we ask Mr if it 's going to help the local neighbourhood in any way , we ask Mr if that is done yesterday rather than a review and then coming back to us in due course , let's get on with it if it can be done .
9 This is because each tends to be written from one of three main analytic standpoints , each of which is extremely convincing — in its own terms .
10 The technology does exist for recycling plastics but , for it to be successful , packaging would have to be made from one type of plastic only .
11 If the view condition is to be incremented from one state to another in a given number of steps , two complete sets of parameters need to be held .
12 They can be acquired from other people and any form of interpersonal contact may allow microorganisms to be transmitted from one person to another .
13 Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and British Telecommunications Plc decided to unveil their jointly-developed personal computer videoconferencing system , the multi-media Personal Computer Communication system first in Milan rather than London : the system enables pictures , speech , text and data to be transmitted from one workstation to another .
14 In order for plates to behave in the manner proposed the lithosphere of which they are composed must be sufficiently rigid compared with the underlying asthenosphere for stress to be transmitted from one side to the other .
15 They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called .
16 They also have an excitable surface membrane which allows a signal to be sent from one end of the neurone to the other .
17 It is not unknown for an advertisement section to be switched from one book to another , to convert an ordinary work to a more coveted one .
18 Any sex which does not allow infected blood , semen or vaginal fluids to be passed from one partner to the other is safer sex .
19 There is also a quick-input method which , with some limitations , allows up to 19 tasks to be entered from one screen .
20 The conclusion to be drawn from one theory is that attempts to restructure the welfare state helped to generate forms of ‘ territorial ’ resistance ( Rhodes ) , while from the other , this is merely the latest in a continuing series of attempts by UK central governments to overcome and control the differentiated demands of a series of local governments with their own local bases of political support ( Duncan and Goodwin ) .
21 Where the two control groups ( C and U ) were sufficiently similar to appear to be drawn from one parent population , these data were pooled and compared with the test group ( L ) using ANOVA with contrast .
22 To make it boil without increasing its temperature , its pressure would have to be reduced from one atmosphere ( point C ) to point C " on the line .
23 It is this accepted common practice which makes communication possible , not the existence of mental items — ideas or thoughts — to be transported from one mind to another .
24 Another disadvantage of this type of system is that where several copper wires carrying different signals lie close to one another , current tends to be induced from one wire to adjacent ones .
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