Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the plus side , would n't it be nice if the clients were helped to look ahead and did n't go on lurching from legal hitch to last-minute legal hitch ? |
| 2 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 3 | Instead of the single , level playing-field for financial services that the Community talks of , the field will indeed be single but still sloping from one end to the other . |
| 4 | The general concept of work is also shifting from man-machine interaction to man-man interaction with machines as aids . |
| 5 | At first she tried to ignore them , self-consciously shuffling from one foot to the other . |
| 6 | Samuel Pepys , visiting his relations at Wisbech thirty-five years later , was equally unimpressed as he passed through ‘ most sad fennes , all the way observing the sad life which the people of the place — which if they were born there , they do call the Breedlings of the place — do live , sometimes rowing from one spot to another and then wadeing ’ . |
| 7 | Often the types of process in one class are very wide , consequently changing from one use to another can lead to odour nuisance yet no planning permission is required unless a condition had been attached at the time of the original planning permission prohibiting a change of use even within the same use class . |
| 8 | Typical applications are found in companies with several medium-sized projects , i.e. ranging from one half to five man-years . |
| 9 | Sticking to a principle is more than adroitly shifting from one position to another . |