Example sentences of "to [noun] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 2 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 3 | Pre-tax profits slumped by more than 50pc during the year to July 31 to £655,000 from £1.7m in the previous 12 months . |
| 4 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 5 | The relative openness of Bosnia to influences from Croatia in the north and from Serbia in the south and east facilitated invasion and conquest from Croats , Hungarians , Serbs , Macedonians , Byzantines and Turks . |
| 6 | The company , where Sir Denis Thatcher is deputy chairman , saw revenue climb 30pc to £168.3m from £129.3m in the six months to January 31 . |
| 7 | That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months . |
| 8 | Pre-tax-profits in the year to March 31 jumped 64% to £64.2m from £39.1m in the previous 12 months . |
| 9 | She had come to England from Berlin in the 1930s and had begun her studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 10 | The party treasurer , Walther Leisler Kiep , was fined in May for tax avoidance relating to donations from industry to the CDU [ see p. 38199 ] . |
| 11 | Within a month of his succession to Kennedy , Israeli newspapers were suggesting that ‘ President Johnson will be more responsive than his predecessor to appeals from sympathisers in the US . ’ |
| 12 | A risk assessment by the NRPB concludes that the risk to individuals from radiation from the trenches will be greatest 450 years after their closure . |
| 13 | In the three months to July , net lending to consumers rose to £535m from £444m in the previous three months . |
| 14 | It remains difficult for health professionals ( even within NGOs ) to be open to criticism from members of the public . |
| 15 | One train , the 15.4 hrs from Quainton and the 16.15 hrs from Aylesbury on Sunday was cancelled on Sunday for several reasons while the gauging run for King Edward was only carried out an hour prior to departure from Aylesbury of the first ACE . |
| 16 | America 's Patriot anti-missile batteries , hastily airlifted to Israel from Germany after the first two Scud attacks , failed to stop a third attack but worked well the following night . |
| 17 | Listening to news from home on the BBC gave us a real sense of belonging again . |
| 18 | Analysts were mildly bullish following Storage Technology Corp 's first quarter report — figures , page five — and after an order imbalance on the New York Stock Exchange , the shares were up $1.125 or 4.7% at $25.125 in early trading on Friday : the numbers beat Wall Street expectations , and the company said that operating performance exceeded its expectations , largely as a result of the strengthening in the US enterprise-related business ; Europe remained slow as a result of weak economies , but the mid-range business has begun to benefit from new products ; cash grew to $325m from $118m at the end of 1992 ; it studiously avoided saying anything about the late Iceberg disk array . |
| 19 | Sun estimates 67% of its products will be sold through indirect channels worldwide in 1994 , up from 43% in 1990 with the commercial area growing to 28% from 13% at the expense of technical bastion . |
| 20 | The analysis was commissioned by the Dean , in response to concern from members of the MCC that the management and course development role of the Committee was seriously diminishing . |
| 21 | IRNA said on Feb. 26 that a total of 9,657 refugees from 27 countries had fled to Iran from Iraq since the outbreak of the war . |
| 22 | After I had returned to Oxford from Abyssinia at the beginning of 1931 , I had read Nesbitt 's account of his journey , in the Geographical Journal for October 1930 . |
| 23 | They had returned to Oxford from Burford in the early evening . |
| 24 | 's journey to Naples from Berlin on the day and evening of 1st January got a little fraught . |
| 25 | The former , a native of China , was introduced to Britain from Japan via the United States in 1754 ; the latter , also from China , via the United States as recently as 1948 . |
| 26 | WITH the Mantes operation committed to specialist and innovative products , it made sense to move the OPP pilot line to France from Bridgwater in the UK . |
| 27 | On a happier note , Jean Brousse , director of marketing , said that the company 's capital fund grew in 1992 to $41m from $25m at the end of 1991 . |
| 28 | Today 's pre-tax profits for the nine months to September 30 were up by 56% to £1.03bn from £657m in the same period last year . |
| 29 | Suharto 's advancement of a pro-democratic line was in part a response to pressure from sections of the armed forces ( ABRI ) . |
| 30 | Kenya administrators also discovered the ‘ importance and usefulness of [ cattle ] sales as a meeting place for the transaction of official business ’ , but except in wartime , when the army needed meat , veterinary quarantines imposed in response to pressure from representatives of the European livestock industry meant that such sales were not a prominent feature of life in Kenya Masai District . |