Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 2 | Omitted from the meaningful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 3 | In one interesting analysis of this issue , Sauvant and Mennis ( 1980 ) argue that the TNCs act as transmission belts along which the contents of what they label the TNC ‘ business culture ’ are carried from the rich countries to the poor countries of the world . |
| 4 | Nor must one exclude from the economic benefits to the crown 's war effort the acquisition of funds which would otherwise serve to enrich French mother houses and very probably , through taxation , the French crown . |
| 5 | When the caterpillars are small they can be transferred from the old leaves to the new ones with a paint-brush . |
| 6 | The Act makes it possible for the properties to be transferred from the local authorities to housing associations , tenant co-operatives , or private landlords . |
| 7 | For this valley was scoured out by the most potent of the Pyrenean glaciers , which was fed from the big valleys to the south , of Gavarnie , Cauterets , Gédre and Baréges , and penetrated beyond the point where Lourdes now stands , shaping the topography as it went . |
| 8 | Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy . |
| 9 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 10 | Violence on the streets increasingly moved from the Distressed Areas to London , Manchester and other major cities in reaction to the rise of the British Union of Fascists . |
| 11 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 12 | Faulting takes place through sudden , rapid movements over distances ranging from a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 13 | It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution . |
| 14 | Originally comprised of five people with backgrounds ranging from the visual arts to music , dance , drama and writing , the group made exciting forays into cross-art forms . |
| 15 | In searching for greater distance , golfers will try absolutely anything , ranging from the latest clubs to weight training , from a fuller shoulder turn in the backswing to a wide arc through the ball . |
| 16 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 17 | Comprising over 500 photographs , they range from the earliest daguerrotypes to contemporary compositions by such photographers as Lartigue , Erwitt , Doisneau , Horst and Wegman . |
| 18 | It was thoroughly well laid out , with fact-sheets for the kids — including free pencils — exhibits dating from the earliest times to the present day and the entrance was through a mock graphite mine . |
| 19 | Powell was the nearest thing to an orthodox businessman to be found in the Virgin offices , with an understanding of business techniques and practices and no little amount of jargon — studiously drawn from the American magazines to which he subscribed . |
| 20 | In city after city the focal points of the martyrs ' cults shifted from the suburban cemeteries to the splendid new churches , both in the suburbs and in the town centres ; the celebration of their memory was integrated into the normal eucharistic worship of the urban community . |
| 21 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 22 | It floated in the dull light of the hut , a wall that hung from the wooden rafters to the boards of the flooring . |
| 23 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 24 | The grain size distributions of some sediments yield linear log-normal cumulative plots , but others deviate from the linear patterns to a greater or lesser degree , especially in the tails of the distributions . |
| 25 | If one turns from the professional judges to the nobles and gentry who were members of the Council in the Marches , high-handedness and corruption become more apparent . |
| 26 | In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months , depending on the whim of the Sheriff . |
| 27 | The length of single eruptive episode , which can range from a few days to several years , will depend on the eruptive energy available once the ground surface is broken . |
| 28 | There was , of course , a mortuary chapel — indeed Kensal Green had two chapels , so that Anglicans and Dissenters , even in death , could remain segregated ; but the dead had become divorced from the Christian communities to which they had once belonged . |
| 29 | We were raging lions then and England 's name was feared from the northern seas to the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 30 | The historical legitimacy of the Great October Revolution , and the direct line of succession running from the victorious Bolsheviks to the Central Committee of today , remains fundamental to the way in which the Soviet establishment views itself and wishes to be viewed . |