Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Esgair Moel Woollen Mill all the processes of woollen manufacture are carried out from fleece to flannel |
| 2 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 3 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 4 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 5 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 6 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 7 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 8 | This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son . |
| 9 | Further , the streets serve as drying grounds in fine weather ; lines are stretched across from house to house , and hung with wet clothing . |
| 10 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 11 | German political ambitions would then be turned away from nationalism to Europeanism , and Western European co-operation would also prevent Germany being lured into the Soviet camp . |
| 12 | Since our ancestors presumably sought safety in exactly such spots , his theory would seem to be plausible — assuming that acquired information can be transmitted genetically from adult to offspring , which is unlikely . |
| 13 | Take the kid to the big stores and they 'd be rigged out from top to bottom — all stamped PACA . |
| 14 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 15 | Car will be travelling roughly from west to east or eastwards |
| 16 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 17 | We hope the branches and members w w will believe those reports because they will be the truth , and not some of the more highly coloured statements which I 'm sure will be put around from time to time . |
| 18 | Food should be put out from autumn to the end of winter , but not in spring and summer . |
| 19 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
| 20 | Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird . |
| 21 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 22 | The shape-specific polymers continued to be passed on from potency to potency even after none of the original solute was left in the solution . |
| 23 | GHI verdict : The clip-on grater and citrus press allow food to drop straight into the jug , avoiding spills and waste , and the jug and bowl can be taken directly from freezer to microwave for reheating . |
| 24 | Dr McNab now ordered the stimulants to be decreased gradually from day to day , meat and beer from the stores being substituted for the brandy and beef tea . |
| 25 | Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town . |
| 26 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |
| 27 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 28 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 29 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 30 | Skills that are passed on from mother to daughter . |