Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What accounts for the differences from town to town , or the similarities between them ? |
| 2 | Andrewes was chairman of the committee which was responsible for the books from Genesis to Kings . |
| 3 | One had a recurrence of an old back injury involving a disc which bulged from between the vertebrae from time to time , causing intense pain , and the other was a young secretary with period pains . |
| 4 | There was a feeling of helpless impotence which permeated up through the ranks from GI to Supreme Command . |
| 5 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 6 | The grant will support the transfer of the documents from individuals to a central collection , transcription of nearly illegible photocopies etc . |
| 7 | However , because the sun not only participates in the daily rotation of the heavens from east to west but also has its own slow annual motion relative to the stars in the opposite direction , different heliacal risings occur throughout the year . |
| 8 | A distressingly high proportion of the records from November to March relate to oiled birds , and the species may be more numerous offshore in the winter than our records indicate . |
| 9 | He took soundings , made a landing on North Foreland in King George Island , where he took possession , and examined the northern coast of the islands from east to west . |
| 10 | UKAEA claimed , despite government denials , that it had informed the Department of Transport of the shipments from Germany to its plant at Dounreay via Wick airport . |
| 11 | The total time of the exercises from start to finish is 3 minutes 45 seconds . |
| 12 | Arrested fermentation prevents some of the sugars from turning to alcohol , while dilution involves the addition of natural spring water or grape juice to dilute the alcohol . |
| 13 | As Karen 's lust for certainty increased , she threw in tantalising little snippets , altering some of the details from time to time . |
| 14 | ‘ As you know I do n't work in the firm but I do give a hand with the accounts from time to time — ’ |
| 15 | The housing should be kept moist by pouring a little water into the wells from time to time . |
| 16 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 17 | Taking in the titles from left to right , he at first saw little of interest:Queer Things About Egypt ; Wonderful Nests , by the Rev. J. G. Wood ; The Elements of Mechanism ; Highways and Byways in the West Country … |
| 18 | But yes , I mean there was b battering went on in the flats from time to time . |
| 19 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 20 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 21 | It is especially serious on land bearing winter cereals , since the resulting ploughland can be exposed to the elements from October to April . |
| 22 | In the so-called ‘ pill scare ’ of 1977 attention was first drawn to the risks from thrombosis to older women on the pill ( Vessey et al . |
| 23 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 24 | This land type occurs on Pabbay , Boreray and Berneray ( Sound of Harris ) and on the islands from Eriskay to Mingulay , and the soils mainly comprise calcareous regosols . |
| 25 | There were reports of civilian casualties on the roads from Baghdad to Kuwait , and to the Jordanian border [ see p. 38025 for Jordanian accounts of the destruction of a bus carrying Jordanian civilians leaving Kuwait ] . |
| 26 | Joint studies in 1953 did produce agreement that the Zagros mountains ( in Iran ) provided the best line of defence given appropriate support on the flanks from Iraq to Pakistan . |
| 27 | Buses are running smoothly this evening , if somewhat slowly , but on the trains from Paddington to Oxford you 'll find a delay of about twenty minutes this evening . |
| 28 | They hung drying on short loops of black thread suspended from lengths of string stretched across the walls from corner to corner , and dim shadows turned slowly on the walls behind them . |
| 29 | Typically , the program would look at the words from left to right , and test whether each word in the sentence was a likely candidate for the case slots of the main verb . |
| 30 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |