Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 2 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 3 | We found a similar trend in a previous study in Hertfordshire , the only other study in which a group of people has been traced from birth to death . |
| 4 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 5 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
| 6 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 7 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 8 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 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 | The price is still £149 but the previous virus update service has been downgraded from monthly to quarterly intervals . |
| 11 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 12 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 13 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 14 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 15 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
| 16 | The three departments , however , do use official statistics in the detailed studies which are done from time to time on a one-off basis . |
| 17 | The king and his brother are seen from time to time , if infrequently — and appear lively and in good health . |
| 18 | Killer whales and pilot whales belong to the group known as ‘ toothed whales ’ ( and are related to the dolphins ) and both are seen from time to time around Shetland . |
| 19 | They know the formulae , they have been transmitted from generation to generation down the years . |
| 20 | As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Small amounts of contaminants are transferred from mother to foetus , but much greater quantities are passed to the suckling young through her milk . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | ‘ What else can it be when you 're covered from head to toe in foul little pustules ? ’ |