Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |
| 2 | It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire , including various forms of learning , while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells — no more than 20,000 neurons in all , arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal . |
| 3 | The three buttons slope steeply but comfortably from right to left as viewed from the user . |
| 4 | She could feel his hot weight pinning her against the mattress , her legs helplessly kicking out as he began remorselessly to stroke her silken side , bringing his hand slowly and repeatedly from shoulder to hip . |
| 5 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 6 | It means , in particular , that the temporality of science can not be accommodated to the rhythms of traditional historiography , which has not , however , prevented positivistic historians of science from writing its history solely in terms of precursors and anachronistic anticipations of modern ideas in early thinkers , as if science unrolled smoothly and inevitably from year to year . |
| 7 | Thus people will readily switch back and forth from money to other assets . |
| 8 | Donna frowned and put her foot down , coaxing more speed from the Volvo , her eyes flicking back and forth from windscreen to rear-view mirror . |
| 9 | Three basic points are fixed on a plaster model of the original and on the marble block , and the frame transferred back and forth from model to block , each point being marked by drilling a hole to the required depth . |
| 10 | The camera tracks back and forth from bedroom to kitchen as the servants go about their chores . |
| 11 | Pages are written closely and amorphously from side to side and from top to bottom . |
| 12 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |