Example sentences of "and from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 2 | For families with two or three children , the doubling of child benefit would mean an increase in their tax-free income from £14.50 to £29 and from £21.75 to £43.50 , respectively . |
| 3 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 4 | The volumes of the still popular Pelican Guide to English Literature which refer to the Renaissance are called The Age of Shakespeare and From Donne to Marvell , for example . |
| 5 | She knew , from reading and from subjection to the media , that she was not alone in her distress : the world was full of nutty housewives , many of them probably just round the corner , since she lived in a district famed countrywide for feminism and madness . |
| 6 | The percentage of respondents familiar with Call Forwarding and Call Waiting grew in 1992 over 1991 ; from 56% to 62% for the first and from 34% to 46% for the second . |
| 7 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 8 | In earlier times the quality of the information provided by a register varies from place to place and from incumbent to incumbent . |
| 9 | The incantatory run of present participles with their weak-syllable endings gives way to the strong definitive statement which has gathered resonance of meaning both within the text and from other of Rolle 's writings : " sange of lovynge and of lufe es cummen " . |
| 10 | Pages are written closely and amorphously from side to side and from top to bottom . |
| 11 | Supporting evidence for the view that the right hemisphere may participate in the recovery from aphasia comes from findings obtained with the regional cerebral blood flow technique ( Meyers , Sakai , Yamaguchi , Yamamoto and Shaw , 1980 ) and from studies of dichotic listening performance which have shown a disproportionate increase in the left ear score with recovery ( Pettit and Noll , 1979 ) , at least among certain categories of aphasic patient ( Castro-Caldas and Botelho , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Research on diagenetic fabrics supplements information from field/core based work and from studies of depositional fabrics . |
| 13 | From such work and from studies on the biochemistry of tubercle bacilli , on substances which prevented their growth , and on potential therapeutic agents , extensive research , especially in the USA , led to the substance named isoniazid which was discovered almost simultaneously in the laboratories of E. R. Squibb and of Hoffmann-La Roche and publicized in 1952 . |
| 14 | These range from telephone calls between acquaintances and friends to meetings at training/familiarisation courses , and from participation in the affairs of independent computing associations to communicating through the columns of their own specialist fortnightly journal ( the Freelance Informer ) . |
| 15 | There are reconditioned phones available on both systems , from Pounds 110 on Lifetime and from £75 on Primetime — new ones are Pounds 199 and £159 respectively . |
| 16 | From this industrious factory , and from others across London , came a never-ending flow of costume melodramas , musicals , detective stories and films in every other sort of genre . |
| 17 | The history consisted of genealogies ( which were different in their emphases and resonances from place to place and from person to person ) and of anecdotes , poems , stories , all of which were similarly variable . |
| 18 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 19 | ‘ But we 've found tapes that we 'd forgotten about , from the Warners vaults in LA and from CBS in New York . |
| 20 | The solid inner planets were formed from rocky grain cohering , and from collisions between planetesimals . |
| 21 | This may be present in natural sources such as mine water but may also come from atmospheric pollution , from flocculation with alum , and from reuse of water . |
| 22 | In 6-month-old IPV recipients ( fig 1 ) , overall seroprevalences 4–6 weeks after vaccination increased from 73% to 94% ( 21% ) for type 1 , from 93% to 100% ( 7% ) for type 2 , and from 67% to 89% ( 22% ) for type 3 . |
| 23 | Despite its popularity in certain quarters , however , the idea of compulsory part-time day classes met with strenuous opposition from politicians , employers , and from sections of the labour movement . |
| 24 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 25 | In particular , we have thus once again honoured in full our commitment to increase in line with prices the basic retirement pension , which will thus rise from £52 to £54.15 a week for a single person and from £83.25 to £86.70 for a couple , entailing additional expenditure of about £1 billion . |
| 26 | While pressure-group influence varies over time and from issue to issue , such groupings must now be seen as an integral part of local public administration . |
| 27 | Perhaps local politics needs to be seen as a series of shifting alliances , varying over time and from issue to issue . |
| 28 | Male differs from male Sparrowhawk ( p. 75 ) in streaked underparts , and from Hobby in pale thighs , bar at tip of tail , and no moustache or white cheeks . |
| 29 | Intermediate between Common and Green Sandpipers , differing from both in voice and in legs projecting beyond tail in flight , from Common in its white rump and different flight pattern , and from Green in its much less strongly contrasted dark and light appearance , greyish underwing and barred tall . |
| 30 | What is appropriate will , naturally , vary from job to job and from country to country . |