Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind . |
| 4 | But the tracer was weaving from side to side . |
| 5 | While the beam was going from right to left , the target moved forward . |
| 6 | My wife was flying from Tel-Aviv to London and who should be in front of us at the airport … |
| 7 | A new temperance movement is spreading from state to state , to the alarm of brewers and distillers , and of some in government . |
| 8 | The empty two-unit pacer passenger train was returning from Goole to its depot at Doncaster , with only the driver and guard on board . |
| 9 | Professionally , Crawford 's career was going from strength to strength , and his association with film director Richard Lester continued with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 10 | Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly . |
| 11 | Sladen was looking from George to Husband and back again , twitching his head from side to side like a tennis umpire . |
| 12 | My health is improving from day to day . |
| 13 | Padding is moving from shoulders to chest — yes , bosoms are back ! |
| 14 | They would ask me how the training was going from time to time and this interest spurred me on . |
| 15 | Trevor Radway , Chairman of the Forest of Dean Railway Company Limited , said there had been many improvements in recent times , and the railway was going from strength to strength . |
| 16 | The idea of groining a beach is that along the Sussex coast the beach material is moving from west to east , this is because the prevailing winds drive the gravel erm onto the beach from the southwest , and it moves in that direction all the time . |
| 17 | Like the Jews , they are exactly the sort of quick-decision , risk-accepting businessmen who are needed when a region is changing from communism to capitalism . |
| 18 | She strode with a determined step into the hall , and in no time was going from room to room , throwing open doors , exclaiming with interest and delight . |
| 19 | Then , while Leith was wondering which stranger to Jimmy from which department had called in her absence , his cheerful face was splitting from ear to ear as he asked , ‘ Do I congratulate you or your fiancé ? ’ |
| 20 | The Monarch airlines jet was flying from Athens to Manchester . |