Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 2 | The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side . |
| 3 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 4 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 5 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 6 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 7 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |
| 8 | It needs neither the approbation of ace tuner Alpina nor the motivation of an M-power badge to crack 140mph — 141–3mph on the Millbrook bowl is around 10mph faster than the old 325i could manage — or sprint from rest to 60mph in a sizzling 7.3secs . |
| 9 | Or go from pub to pubs |
| 10 | Complaints on the left side or go from left to right |
| 11 | Complaints are characteristically on the left side or go from left to right . |
| 12 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 13 | The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones . |
| 14 | ‘ Form FLR A ’ means the form FLR A set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 15 | ‘ Form FLR B ’ means the form FLR B set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 16 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 17 | You will be sad or distressed from time to time , as the care staff who are quoted in the section on care for the dying have said . |
| 18 | Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved . |
| 19 | To be specific , do Jewish and Arabic readers have comic strips that read from right to left , as their script does ? |
| 20 | By running a marginal operation that staggered from week to week , he was unable to put together a long-term plan for success . |
| 21 | This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year . |
| 22 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 23 | Was it a political Great Fear , a contagion that spread from city to city , village to village ? |
| 24 | There are both negative and positive implications in having the test that vary from individual to individual . |
| 25 | Again , no formal theory of attention is developed and indeed it is unclear that some mechanism other than that involved in abstraction is necessary — the distinctive features of an object or event are likely to be the invariants and the irrelevant aspects those that vary from presentation to presentation . |
| 26 | The directors are probably used to the supernatural events that happen from time to time ; the very fact that the building has connections with the railways has possibly something to do with the old railwayman but in what context I do not know . |
| 27 | It was just one of those odd coincidences that happened from time to time . |
| 28 | It has been proposed that the gravitational force has a short-range component that varies from material to material , with a suggested range of about 10 6 m or less . |
| 29 | The study , commissioned by the Association of County Councils ( ACC ) , discussed the implications of an allocation of responsibilities within a county that varies from district to district depending on its size . |
| 30 | The Commission argues that switching from zero-rating to tax-paid exports would provide the only way of scrapping checks on traders at borders without inviting fraud on a massive scale . |