Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job .
2 ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’
3 WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol .
4 Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism .
5 For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort .
6 The number of visitors is increasing from year to year but at the peak of the holiday season this is causing more congestion and overuse of the landscape .
7 By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix .
8 Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind .
9 Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account .
10 It was the day for the sale of sheep , and we saw many little lots under the guardianship of shepherds and collie dogs ; eager buyers were going from group to group , judging their respective merits — now taking a hold of a sheep to feel his weight , and noting the quality of his fleece .
11 Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive .
12 But the tracer was weaving from side to side .
13 While the beam was going from right to left , the target moved forward .
14 At the end of the lesson , Katharine was beaming from ear to ear .
15 The Crawfords were living from week to week , and soon the Rolls-Royce had to go .
16 In the nineteenth century the Gunton Park was essentially a dairy herd and here the emphasis on a good milk yield at 4 per cent butterfat continued into the 1930s and 1940s , when the rest of the breeders were changing from dairy to dual-purpose types .
17 Palatine is going from strength to strength as an independent .
18 Finally , the Rampton/Swann statistics themselves provide evidence that the educational achievements of Afro-Caribbean children and young people are increasing from year to year at a higher rate than those of other groups .
19 A new temperance movement is spreading from state to state , to the alarm of brewers and distillers , and of some in government .
20 Professionally , Crawford 's career was going from strength to strength , and his association with film director Richard Lester continued with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum .
21 Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly .
22 As these events were unfolding we were finding that our Partnership 's lifestyle magazines were going from strength to strength .
23 Mr Crangle was grinning from ear to ear .
24 Mr Crangle was rushing from place to place checking the details of his plan .
25 These men were walking from work-house to work-house .
26 And in the secret garden , where the roses were at their best , and the butterflies were flying from flower to flower in the summer sunshine , they told Colin 's father their story .
27 He had brought along several exhibits , including a portrait of Darwin he had found in a junk shop and an assortment of feathers and fossils that the children were passing from hand to hand .
28 My health is improving from day to day .
29 They would ask me how the training was going from time to time and this interest spurred me on .
30 Trevor Radway , Chairman of the Forest of Dean Railway Company Limited , said there had been many improvements in recent times , and the railway was going from strength to strength .
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