Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I write all right from night to night , |
| 2 | He swung himself down easily from branch to branch and landed lightly on the tussocky grass , drawing his sword . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Down again from knee to groin , that delicate forefinger tracing , tracing . |
| 7 | In practice it is difficult to accurately measure such a small drop , and weight does fluctuate a little anyway from day to day . |
| 8 | The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Moreover , they fluctuate in their supposed order of priority , not merely from Government to Government , nor even from year to year , but almost from day to day at the whim of public and parliamentary opinion . |
| 13 | Does he further agree that , at this critical time of ordering , building and commissioning that submarine fleet , we should not pay attention to the recommendations of the two main Opposition parties , whose opinion appears to vary , not merely from day to day , but from hour to hour ? |
| 14 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
| 15 | FOR an economy that is supposedly manipulated to make it impervious to market forces , Japan has moved remarkably rapidly from joy to gloom . |
| 16 | However , the economic benefit gained from such treatment varies considerably from farm to farm and also apparently from country to country and there are as yet insufficient grounds for advocating routine treatment of herds at calving . |
| 17 | These are stars which flare up suddenly from near-invisibility to prominence , remaining bright for a few days , weeks or months before fading again . |
| 18 | Roll up carefully from head to tail and secure with one or two cocktail sticks . |
| 19 | Other water-loving species turned up here from time to time also — Mimulus and forget-me-not and Water Speedwell . |
| 20 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |
| 21 | In 1675 the Lords of Trade had ten colonies on the North American seacoast to think about , stretching roughly from Portsmouth ( in what was still part of Massachusetts ) to Charleston , a length of coast running about as far from north to south as that of Britain . |
| 22 | The firm still refers clients to Deacon Gray and Sandra goes back there from time to time for training courses . |
| 23 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 24 | In the present she mostly enjoyed herself , or had so far : ‘ I 've been sad so often yet from day to day I 've enjoyed everything that was going . ’ |
| 25 | The amount of force needed to lock them will vary considerably from aircraft to aircraft and even perhaps from day to day . |
| 26 | There was a moment 's quietness , as of a grace before a meal , and then the mare stepped sweetly forward from leg to hand . |
| 27 | We used to take a basket and trudge over a mile to a huge horse chestnut tree that grew just past Petersfinger on the Southampton Road , its branches stretching right across from side to side . |
| 28 | Although the result lacks the variety of texture claimed above for genuine Eckard , it happens to resemble closely the somewhat exceptional authentic but unascribed piece by that composer on p.100 , in which the same accompanimental figure runs almost uninterruptedly from beginning to end . |
| 29 | The beetle Dynastes hercules can change colour quite quickly from yellow to black and vice versa . |
| 30 | Emily was rolling almost rhythmically from side to side in the bed with her arms crossed over her breasts and her eyes wide open and staring . |