Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] from [num] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 It is one of those forms of crime which appear to be ‘ catching ’ , as a disease is communicated from one country to another and one continent to another , like the importation of smallpox from India into London .
2 " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes .
3 Such phrases confuse the way in which coded information is transmitted from one generation to another with the regularities of a nervous system , which itself is the outcome of an ordered developmental process .
4 There is a statutory discontinuance of a trade when it is transferred from one company to another ( see s337(1) TA 1988 ) .
5 It is helpful to understand how money is transferred from one country to another and the bank accounting procedures which accompany such transfers if the concept of Eurocurrency is to be fully understood .
6 a mating-like process between bacteria in which genetic information is transferred from one cell to another .
7 The conveyor is moved from one end to the other keeping the load as level as possible while we top up the hold .
8 All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller .
9 There are remarkably few fumblings between the main historical chapters as the narrative is handed from one writer to the next .
10 It is through this concretion that the religion is conveyed from one generation to another .
11 In three component parts , taking the participants from basic to advanced desktop publishing , the seminar is scheduled from 20 April to 12 June 1992 .
12 Period of time state in line 2 is increased from 30 days to 60 days .
13 However , when energy is converted from one form to another , some of it is wasted .
14 This clotted traffic artery is lined from one end to another with new office buildings of the type illustrated in the picture above .
15 During conjugation , DNA is passed from one bacterium to another ; this DNA may be the plasmid which caused the conjugation , or the bacterial chromosome itself , or both .
16 If a female is taken from one area to the other , she ignores the local males because she is deaf to their calls .
17 He begins to shake , she 's rocked from one side to the other as she feels the tail thrash at the sea and Manjiku rear and toss .
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