Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | They know the formulae , they have been transmitted from generation to generation down the years . |
| 32 | As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms . |
| 33 | The service has been relocated from London to Mafier House in Worcester Street . |
| 34 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 35 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 36 | The proposition that industrial co-operatives can create and distribute wealth at least as well and probably better than the traditional forms of industry had already been argued from cause to probable effect . |
| 37 | There is nothing new about this procedure ; the National Fruit Collection has already been moved from Wisley to Brogdale . |
| 38 | Bedrooms are airconditioned from June to September . |
| 39 | Consider a translate instruction in which ( a ) The source and destination strings are scanned from right to left ; ( b ) Each entry in the translation table contains both a value to be inserted in the destination string , and the address of a new translation table for the next source character . |
| 40 | We are mesmerised by the mystery of young women 's bodies , trying to unlock their secrets with words that are whispered from desk to desk . |
| 41 | Small amounts of contaminants are transferred from mother to foetus , but much greater quantities are passed to the suckling young through her milk . |
| 42 | Some compartments in the model could be subdivided : for example , radionuclides are transferred from animals to people by drinking milk or by eating the animal meat , and while the consumption of milk is a fast pathway , that of meat is slower . |
| 43 | The cards are marked in such a way that stitches are transferred from right to left on some rows and from left to right on other rows , so avoiding a bias . |
| 44 | This pattern occurs frequently due to factors such as the way in which meter readings for , say , electricity supply are made from house to house , i.e. not at random , or the effects of localized advertising campaigns on a larger file in which many unaffected records are stored . |
| 45 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 46 | I asked people if th if they would like a complimentary copy of the Saga magazine and all their brochures and they can do so by er , members like myself we 're asked from time to time , do we know any friends who would like a copy ? |
| 47 | ‘ What else can it be when you 're covered from head to toe in foul little pustules ? ’ |
| 48 | But most of them would have a neck that was quite high ; modesty was getting to be a really important factor , so we 're covered from head to toe . |
| 49 | Despite protests from all sides he did n't halt his labours until the body before him had been opened from navel to throat , and Dowd 's thrashings had ceased . |
| 50 | Letters addressed to the present writer have been opened from time to time from at least 1973 to the present . |
| 51 | For Cubo , who teaches history , the causes of World War One have more to do with the battle over markets and raw materials than with the assassination of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand ( the classical explanation that children are offered from Melbourne to Montreal ) . |
| 52 | Its Mayor held criminal jurisdiction and various wrongdoers , including mutineers , have been hauled from ships to Saltash Guildhall for justice to be done . |
| 53 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 54 | Gallery houses a collection of work by Sir Alfred East R.A. ( 1849–1913 ) , and other artists with Kettering connections which are shown from time to time . |
| 55 | During that 45 minutes , when Arsenal fans must have thought they had been transported from Highbury to Camelot , even Anders Limpar on the bench was forgotten by them . |
| 56 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 57 | The penultimate saga of the Entebbe Four ( ‘ Chimpanzees on the run ’ , October ) is that they have been repatriated from Hungary to Uganda , where they are waiting in Entebbe Zoo to move to a semi-wild setting in their native land , courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute . |
| 58 | Hephaestus was crippled and ugly , having had the temerity to interfere in a quarrel between his tempestuous parents , and been flung from Olympus to the Island of Lemnos below for his pains . |
| 59 | By the time HMS Beagle reached her final port , Charles Darwin had been elevated from obscurity to the status of reputed naturalist . |
| 60 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |