Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 2 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 3 | the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time . |
| 4 | At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation . |
| 5 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 6 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 7 | Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice . |
| 8 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 9 | When he has mastered this type of movement kneeling , more advanced work might involve sitting on his heels and then shifting his weight towards his hemiplegic side to practise controlling his arm and the side of his trunk while some of his bodyweight is transmitted from side to side . |
| 10 | The scheme may well now be complete , but revision is recommended from time to time and thought must be given as to how this might be achieved . |
| 11 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 12 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 13 | Selling is the most common method by which ownership is transferred from person to person . |
| 14 | Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind . |
| 15 | A. Plasmids used in this experiment : a ) expression vector with oct-2 cDNA ; b ) expression vector with N-Oct 3 cDNA ( identical with plasmid IV , Fig. 3B ) ; c ) expression vector with N-Oct 5 cDNAs ( identical with plasmid V , Fig. 3B ) , d ) β-globin test gene plasmid with the octamer site ( symbolized by 8 ) in 5 bp distance to the TATA-box ( symbolized by T ) and downstream located SV 40 enhancer ; e ) the same plasmid but the octamer site is mutated from ATGCAAAT to CTGAACAT ; f ) truncated β-globin reference gene ; g ) radioactive antisense RNA probe spanning positions -37 to +179 of plasmids d and e . |
| 16 | He designed the Palazzo del Tè , Mantua , in 1525 , and decorated it with frescos ; in the Sala de' Giganti the room is painted from floor to ceiling , so that the spectator feels overwhelmed by the rocks and thunderbolts hurled down by the rebellious Titans . |
| 17 | But the tracer was weaving from side to side . |
| 18 | Wine was splashed from jug to cup and then often drained in one loud gulp . |
| 19 | While the beam was going from right to left , the target moved forward . |
| 20 | He was initially sentenced to three months in jail ; the period was renewed from time to time until 1672 . |
| 21 | A black lacy wimple framed her beautiful white face while her splendid body was clothed from neck to toe in a pure black silk gown , the only concession to any alleviating colour being the white lace cuffs and collar and the small jewelled cross which swung from a gold chain round her neck . |
| 22 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 23 | If the module being read is a FOREIGN module , it should be noted that this results in the header file plus all the files defined in the module being transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's directory . |
| 24 | Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself . |
| 25 | The old type of gravity filter is rarely found nowadays , and most works use pressure filters containing beds of graded sand , coarse at the bottom and fine at the top , through which the water is pumped from top to bottom . |
| 26 | A ball is thrown from player to player and the person in the middle must try to intercept it . |
| 27 | By increasing the capital stock until its maximum output is Q 2 society can gain the area of the triangle ABE , which reflects the excess of marginal benefit over marginal cost when output is increased from Q to Q 2 . |
| 28 | Mathematical knowledge is transmitted from teacher to pupil ; telling , showing and explaining are the order of the day . |
| 29 | My friend was followed from seat to seat by a dirty old man during He-Man and the Masters of the Universe . |
| 30 | No new members of the board were elected , though the odd family friend was co-opted from time to time . |