Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 2 | A key response of governments in Europe to the perceived fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s was to adopt strategies which would restrain state expenditure , switch payment for utilities from taxation to consumer charging , and allow the private and voluntary sectors to play a larger role in the provision of transport , education and welfare services . |
| 3 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 4 | It became increasingly difficult for assistance from outside to reach the nationalists , and their united front with the communists was no more than skin deep , but even so the Japanese could not extract a surrender . |
| 5 | But in using the Comtean notion of progress from superstition to science as the mental counterpart of Darwin 's physical progression from ape to man the Tylorians simply evaded the issue . |
| 6 | Until 1948 , the Poor Law required children to maintain their parents and the law was implemented with varying degrees of rigour from district to district . |
| 7 | GEC , under the guidance of Lord Weinstock , built itself up into the largest manufacturing employer in the UK , producing a wide range of products from telecommunications to defence electronics . |
| 8 | The Lifford site produces precipitated calcium carbonate from Derbyshire limestone , which goes into the manufacture of a wide variety of products from toothpaste to paper . |
| 9 | For example , although some companies will be happy to maintain foreign prices as a multiple of the UK price , this will not satisfy a company that needs to hold multi-currency price lists reflecting the different terms of payment from country to country . |
| 10 | These features now make PC-Write suitable for all levels of user from novice to expert . |
| 11 | These features now make PC-Write suitable for all levels of user from novice to expert . |
| 12 | Within the crowded streets and lively squares of the city lie a plethora of tiny open-air stalls selling everything from incense to caged pigeons , over six thousand restaurants serving the gamut of cuisine from Korean to French , and an array of gleaming hitech buildings housing progressive computer companies and financial whizzes . |
| 13 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 14 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 15 | Society could gain the triangle EFE ' ; , measuring the excess of social benefits over social costs , by increasing the quantity of improvements from Q to Q ' ; . |
| 16 | After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number . |
| 17 | Its membership and its political weight varied of course from time to time with the personality of the monarch and with changing circumstances . |
| 18 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 19 | Despite his elevation of Pamela from maid to lady , a solecism that Jane Austen would never have committed , Richardson makes a much clearer distinction than she does between the genuine landed family and aspirants to that status from the middle class . |
| 20 | Even if firms were completely market orientated , they would still make errors of judgement from time to time . |
| 21 | They can insert , delete , correct , paragraph , title , and move chunks of text from place to place . |
| 22 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 23 | Theo had been sending him sums of money from time to time through their father , keeping his name out of the transaction . |
| 24 | WITHOUT a doubt the most difficult move in golf is the change of direction from backswing to forward swing . |
| 25 | Crucially , it was air reconnaissance that informed the Allies , on 3 September , of Kluck 's change of direction from west to east of Paris . |
| 26 | As ever , rank-and-file Party members and local trades union officials provided the core of the listening web which was supposed to embrace all citizens of Romania from cradle to grave . |
| 27 | From a reading of Gudok for the whole year the impression is received of workers indulging in an endless series of meetings on a range of subjects from pay to culture , the Famine , technical improvement , national and international politics , usually during work hours . |
| 28 | After the weather I 'll be back with a brand new series called , ’ Lifeline ’ , a short programme which aims to give advice on a whole range of subjects from alcoholism to education . |
| 29 | ‘ This campaign will cover a broad range of subjects from diet to home safety and coping with stress . |
| 30 | Nor in my view will it look much like Kenneth Baker 's essentially hierarchical or military vision of a chain of command from centre to periphery , because curricula are not ultimately manageable in that way . |