Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 . |
| 2 | Thailand 's GDP per head , for example , is lifted from $1,780 to $1,580 . |
| 3 | With £10.8m cash under its belt , and earnings up 7 p.c. to 12½p a share , the payout is being lifted from 4.31p to 43/4p , with a 3.3p final on July 7 . |
| 4 | The dividend total is being lifted from 17.44p to 18p , with a 12.33p final on July 24 . |
| 5 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 6 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 7 | But this Alexandro , his house is er cracked from corner to cornerl |
| 8 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 9 | Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time . |
| 10 | There were three problems with this : the weight of the book , increasing nakedness as the examination wound from stage to stage , and failure of concentration , owing to painful legs and a general pregnant incapacity to finish sentences , her own , Wordsworth 's , or Mrs Frances Owen 's . |
| 11 | In 1972 a research paper by American scientists showed that the stable isotope ratios for oxygen and carbon in white marble varied from quarry to quarry , and more extensive research since then has confirmed that such measurements provide a ‘ signature ’ for the marble quarries of Italy , Greece and Turkey , which were the main sources of Classical marble . |
| 12 | The sections could take from two weeks to half a term to complete , so the actual number of tests varied from scheme to scheme . |
| 13 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 14 | The union pointed out that under the Merchant Shipping Act , the loss of a ship terminated a seaman 's contract and that newcomers would expect the wages which they had previously enjoyed ; since these varied from port to port and ship to ship , domestic peace on board would be unlikely . |
| 15 | The clinical significance of colonisation by the epidemic strain varied from patient to patient . |
| 16 | Wages and conditions of work varied from firm to firm . |
| 17 | Like telephone charges , they can be varied from day to day and between evenings and rush hours . |
| 18 | Again , motivation varied from individual to individual . |
| 19 | The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment . |
| 20 | Agricultural productivity varied from country to country with its structure . |
| 21 | It may be that the policy of differing rates of support for different categories of residential and nursing homes clients encourages some specialisation. b Literature A survey of registered nursing homes in Edinburgh showed that about 70% of residents suffered mild , moderate or severe dementia , but figures varied from home to home , indicating differing practices , not necessarily related to the declared policy of the homes ( Primrose and Capewell , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | The strategies naturally varied from case to case , but all addressed the broad goals outlined above and all included a publicity programme of meetings , brochures and media coverage . |
| 23 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 24 | Contributions are usually made entirely by the company , and can be varied from year to year . |
| 25 | The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it . |
| 26 | Dealers regard Matisse as an unreliable vineyard whose quality and yield varied from year to year . |
| 27 | Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s . |
| 28 | The rate of acquisition of these various classes of assets has varied from year to year but with the exception of overseas securities holdings , which have tended to rise as a proportion of the total since 1980 , there are no significant trends . |
| 29 | The arguments rehearsed by Sextus Empiricus purported to show that , because perception of secondary qualities such as tastes and colours varied from person to person , we can not know how things really are in respect of these . |
| 30 | The operation of the communities of interest has varied from seeking to preserve neighbourhood cohesion or status quo ( Fineview and Charles Street Kirkbride ) to pursuing the interests of an exclusive and unrepresentative group within the neighbourhood ( such as Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny and increasingly Manchester ) . |