Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 2 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 3 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 4 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 5 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 6 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 7 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 9 | Under the Conservatives the top rates were slashed from 83pc to 40pc which handed top earning executives some mighty large salary increases without them even having to ask . |
| 10 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 11 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 12 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 13 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |
| 14 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 15 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 16 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 17 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 18 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 19 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 20 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 21 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 22 | At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction . |
| 23 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 24 | Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence . |
| 25 | Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment . |
| 26 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 27 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 28 | Instead they were driven from Sarajevo to Split in Croatia , and flown to England . |
| 29 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 30 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |