Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 2 | Headteachers are paid from £23,000 to £50,000 . |
| 3 | Frozen chicken thighs are reduced from £2.68 to £1.98 for 3lb and Kiwi fruit are 9p instead of 15p each . |
| 4 | The knowledge that words are read from left to right , and from the top of the page to the bottom . |
| 5 | Bedrooms are airconditioned from June to September . |
| 6 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 7 | Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 10 | Navy gaberdine trousers are reduced from £139 to £79 and grey flannel shirt-dresses from £159 to £99 . |
| 11 | Within departments , too , strains may be caused as establishment and finance responsibilities are decentralized from headquarters to new responsibility centres . |
| 12 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Star commands and their associated qualifiers are converted from lower-case to upper-case if necessary . |
| 15 | In the autoshaping procedure , pigeons are confronted from time to time with presentations of an illuminated disc ( a response key ) signalling the delivery of food . |
| 16 | Some compartments in the model could be subdivided : for example , radionuclides are transferred from animals to people by drinking milk or by eating the animal meat , and while the consumption of milk is a fast pathway , that of meat is slower . |
| 17 | Apart from the wide range of orientation techniques used , the fact that orientation techniques are switched from year to year within individual libraries , and the fact that maybe several different techniques might be employed in any single library in any one year , is further illustration of uncertainty in this important area of user education . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Materials are covered from graphite to felt-tips , to pastels — the latter not really suitable for sketchbooks , probably , but ideal for preparation for oils . |
| 20 | Tree shrews are found from Borneo to India , where the Madras tree shrew extends its range from the forest into scrub land . |
| 21 | A family run wine bar where hot and cold meals are served from noon to 7 pm . |
| 22 | Thus numeric operands are held in sign-and-magnitude form , with the sign on the right , since operands are processed from right to left . |
| 23 | Since instructions are processed from left to right on this computer ( unlike data which is processed from right to left ) , the characters of an instruction are picked up until a word mark is reached ( indicating the beginning of the next instruction ) ; the instruction is then executed . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | However , constituency boundaries are changed from time to time . |
| 26 | For Cubo , who teaches history , the causes of World War One have more to do with the battle over markets and raw materials than with the assassination of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand ( the classical explanation that children are offered from Melbourne to Montreal ) . |
| 27 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 28 | This comes only when , after a lowering of tension , the boys are summoned from London to the newly constituted Samavia and Marco , expecting to see his father as a loyal subject near the throne , is rewarded to the full for his devoted service , as he realises it is his father who is the restored King . |
| 29 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 30 | The same old commentators are wheeled from channel to channel to comment on the same snippets of film . |