Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For hinged windows , the best choice is self-adhesive epdm rubber foam , which unlike earlier foam types , deteriorates only slowly on exposure to sun and rain .
2 I write all right from night to night ,
3 He swung himself down easily from branch to branch and landed lightly on the tussocky grass , drawing his sword .
4 Not all fathers or mothers were converted so easily from tyranny to benevolence , but , by the 1740s , a new attitude to children was spreading steadily among the middle and upper classes .
5 CWS profits rose only marginally from £47.7m to £48.5m .
6 Q3 profit of $2.2m reflected improvement of $4.8m to produce losses down substantially from $34.5m to $1.3m .
7 Q3 profit of $0.6 compared with a loss of $21.5m in the same period last time and produced a deficit down sharply from $$53.4m to $23.1m .
8 Q2 profit of $4.3m reflected improvement of $15.3m to produce losses down sharply from $31.9m to $3.5m .
9 Not the specific details , because domestic life is changing so radically from decade to decade : its structure is also strongly influenced by patterns of child care and external work .
10 Well those people were only there from Tuesday to Friday .
11 Conversely , we would be impressed by another yogi who could alter these processes in his intestines on a word of command but made no claims to know what was going on down there from moment to moment .
12 He sees exuberant , and perhaps sensual , pleasure in the natural world , of the kind which he once described so lyrically in letters to Arthur Greeves ( there is in fact a letter about bathing in the rain at Parson 's Pleasure ) ; now such stuff seems to him ‘ Nazi ’ .
13 Down again from knee to groin , that delicate forefinger tracing , tracing .
14 Indexical meaning , achievable only pragmatically in reference to context , is contrasted with symbolic meaning which inheres in the linguistic sign as a stable semantic property .
15 In practice it is difficult to accurately measure such a small drop , and weight does fluctuate a little anyway from day to day .
16 Assuming a starting point on the north shore , drive to Gersau ( one of the resorts sheltered by the Rigi ) from where a vehicular ferry operates across the lake to Beckenried approximately hourly from April to mid-October .
17 The museum covers canals , mining , and chain-making , among other industries , and is open daily from March to December ( except Christmas ) .
18 The farm is open daily from April to December .
19 Steventon is on the main line , exactly halfway from London to Bristol .
20 This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) .
21 Towns and cities vary , not only with respect to resources like housing but , more generally , with respect to the number and variety of jobs that are available , and to a wide range of educational , cultural and scenic facilities .
22 The contradictions that remain are challenging — not only with respect to de Beauvoir 's life but also in relation to our own lives .
23 Language has the ability to stimulate and motivate , not only through appeals to logic but also through appeals to emotion ( Burke , 1950 ; Pfeffer , 1981 ; Edelman , 1964 ) .
24 The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time .
25 However , one can see that the relative emphasis on these four factors may vary ( and sometimes conflict ) not only from job to job ( in some cases expertise is of the essence , in others the degree content is virtually irrelevant , and ability and ‘ personality ’ are the key things ) but from one employer and even personnel manager to another .
26 These practices , they further note , ‘ varied not only from region to region and from time to time but also from social class to social class , so that their impact on field systems and rural settlement patterns is complex and not easy to determine . ’
27 How do you ring the changes so that the mood alters , not only from month to month but from one part of the garden to another ?
28 Rosmer 's anecdote gives us the measure of the role that Bukharin played , not only in relation to Lenin , but also to the whole Bolshevik Party .
29 Formal channels include debates , not only in relation to Bills but in relation to any other matter which the House chooses to consider , and questions , oral and written .
30 This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer .
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