Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team .
2 KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job .
3 ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’
4 the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time .
5 At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation .
6 When he has mastered this type of movement kneeling , more advanced work might involve sitting on his heels and then shifting his weight towards his hemiplegic side to practise controlling his arm and the side of his trunk while some of his bodyweight is transmitted from side to side .
7 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 .
8 The scheme may well now be complete , but revision is recommended from time to time and thought must be given as to how this might be achieved .
9 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 .
10 In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ .
11 Selling is the most common method by which ownership is transferred from person to person .
12 A. Plasmids used in this experiment : a ) expression vector with oct-2 cDNA ; b ) expression vector with N-Oct 3 cDNA ( identical with plasmid IV , Fig. 3B ) ; c ) expression vector with N-Oct 5 cDNAs ( identical with plasmid V , Fig. 3B ) , d ) β-globin test gene plasmid with the octamer site ( symbolized by 8 ) in 5 bp distance to the TATA-box ( symbolized by T ) and downstream located SV 40 enhancer ; e ) the same plasmid but the octamer site is mutated from ATGCAAAT to CTGAACAT ; f ) truncated β-globin reference gene ; g ) radioactive antisense RNA probe spanning positions -37 to +179 of plasmids d and e .
13 He designed the Palazzo del Tè , Mantua , in 1525 , and decorated it with frescos ; in the Sala de' Giganti the room is painted from floor to ceiling , so that the spectator feels overwhelmed by the rocks and thunderbolts hurled down by the rebellious Titans .
14 Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself .
15 The old type of gravity filter is rarely found nowadays , and most works use pressure filters containing beds of graded sand , coarse at the bottom and fine at the top , through which the water is pumped from top to bottom .
16 A ball is thrown from player to player and the person in the middle must try to intercept it .
17 By increasing the capital stock until its maximum output is Q 2 society can gain the area of the triangle ABE , which reflects the excess of marginal benefit over marginal cost when output is increased from Q to Q 2 .
18 Palatine is going from strength to strength as an independent .
19 Mathematical knowledge is transmitted from teacher to pupil ; telling , showing and explaining are the order of the day .
20 A feature of the stimuli is that the widths of the stripes within each pattern are random and that the arrangement of stripes is changed from trial to trial .
21 Both , but this one next door Bev is pushed from pillar to post
22 The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas .
23 The upthrust is transmitted from wing to coracoid and the whole body is raised .
24 A new temperance movement is spreading from state to state , to the alarm of brewers and distillers , and of some in government .
25 The " ideal " referred to at the beginning of this chapter is of marriage in which fidelity between partners is maintained from beginning to end .
26 With effect from 1 April 1990 , the maximum award is £8,925 ; that limit is reviewed from time to time .
27 Time to tackle trumps now , so the ace is led from dummy to which all follow small , and you follow up with the jack intending to run it if East does n't cover .
28 This signals clearly that the dynamic of singular love is operative when everyday reality is transfigured from speech to song and the contemplative feels the ordinary demands of the self stilled as he awakes to the wider reality : " may say : " " I slepe and my hert wakes " " " ( 8.106.51 – 2 ) .
29 My health is improving from day to day .
30 Other subjects include Place Names , Folklore , Clan Donald , Natural History with ornithology particularly covered , Geology , Transport , Distilling and a large section under the heading Descriptions , New material is being added all the time and a library list is printed from time to time .
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