Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As you know I do n't work in the firm but I do give a hand with the accounts from time to time — ’ |
| 2 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |
| 3 | We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year . |
| 4 | ‘ She used to read The Times from cover to cover . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | In particular , the shifts from entitlement to discretion , exemplified by the Social Fund , and the exclusion of certain groups from the benefits system , notably 16- and 17-year olds . |
| 7 | On command , a wave of tube inflation rises up the tights from ankle to thigh , squeezing the vein-blood in front of it . |
| 8 | By 1989 the branches from Tondu to Garw and Ogmore had both closed , leaving only Maesteg as a source of traffic in this once thriving part of the Welsh coalfield . |
| 9 | When , however , it is exposed in the left field alone , the tendency to move the eyes at the beginning of the line ( presumably the dominant one ) would be in conflict with the tendency to move the eyes from left to right . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
| 12 | The agreement provided for the price of the petrol ‘ to be agreed by the parties from time to time ’ and failing agreement to be settled by arbitration . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As new evidence came to light the risks from exposure to radiation appeared worse and worse . |
| 15 | He dangled the keys from hand to hand . |
| 16 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 17 | His evasion of time as a restrictive element is brought out by Ralegh who insists that ‘ Time drives the flocks from field to fold ’ . |
| 18 | They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time . |
| 19 | Whilst all have suffered , the variations from country to country are not insignificant . |
| 20 | The variations from pulse to pulse are similar to those seen in ordinary long-period pulsars , providing further evidence that the emission process in millisecond pulsars is the same as that in ordinary pulsars , despite the fact that the pulsar magnetosphere is smaller in volume by a factor of about 10 6 . |
| 21 | But yes , I mean there was b battering went on in the flats from time to time . |
| 22 | She too had heard rumours , the telephones from shop to shop must have been red hot , and she looked at Rose with speculation . |
| 23 | He turns the pages from right to left . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As Karen 's lust for certainty increased , she threw in tantalising little snippets , altering some of the details from time to time . |
| 27 | The trustees from time to time remitted to the mother of the children , who was their guardian and who was residing with them in England , sums of money in accordance with the provision of the will for the maintenance and education of the children . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 30 | We 'll sail to the Americas and chase the Spaniards from bedtime to sparrow-fart . |