Example sentences of "were [verb] from [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 2 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 4 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 5 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |
| 6 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 7 | It would appear that , separately from the files referred to in the correspondence in December 1990 , a substantial quantity of further files were moved from London to [ a Middle East state ] . |
| 8 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 9 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 10 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 11 | He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London , with seven who were going from London to Leeds ; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast . |
| 12 | The terrifying near miss took place 4,500 ft above RAF Waddington , Lincs , as the riders were flying from Newbury to York races . |
| 13 | Piggott , Michael Hills , Philip Robinson and George Duffield , all jockeys , were flying from Newmarket to York on 19 August , 1992 , when the near catastrophe took place , said the Joint Airmiss Working Group ( JAWG ) . |
| 14 | The pair , from Whitefield , Greater Manchester , were travelling from Sydney to Brisbane . |
| 15 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 16 | Over more than 60 years , an estimated 150,000 children including some from Merseyside were shipped from Britain to distant parts of the Empire . |
| 17 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 18 | Ten Canadian river otters were shipped from Canada to the UK , due to unsuitable crates only two survived . |
| 19 | Instead they were driven from Sarajevo to Split in Croatia , and flown to England . |
| 20 | The children were taken from Orkney to mainland Scotland under Place of Safety orders . |
| 21 | Exports worth up to £0.5m. a year in the late seventeenth century were taken from India to England , often for re-export to the rest of the world , and this trade determined the flow of dividends . |
| 22 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |