Example sentences of "[noun] are [verb] from [noun sg] 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 | The knowledge that words are read from left to right , and from the top of the page to the bottom . |
| 3 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 4 | Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account . |
| 9 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Star commands and their associated qualifiers are converted from lower-case to upper-case if necessary . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Materials are covered from graphite to felt-tips , to pastels — the latter not really suitable for sketchbooks , probably , but ideal for preparation for oils . |
| 17 | A family run wine bar where hot and cold meals are served from noon to 7 pm . |
| 18 | Thus numeric operands are held in sign-and-magnitude form , with the sign on the right , since operands are processed from right to left . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | However , constituency boundaries are changed from time to time . |
| 22 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 23 | The same old commentators are wheeled from channel to channel to comment on the same snippets of film . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The king and his brother are seen from time to time , if infrequently — and appear lively and in good health . |
| 26 | Small amounts of contaminants are transferred from mother to foetus , but much greater quantities are passed to the suckling young through her milk . |
| 27 | Diseased organs are passed from doctor to doctor on plastic lunch trays . |
| 28 | 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 . |