Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 2 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 3 | It became increasingly difficult for assistance from outside to reach the nationalists , and their united front with the communists was no more than skin deep , but even so the Japanese could not extract a surrender . |
| 4 | But in using the Comtean notion of progress from superstition to science as the mental counterpart of Darwin 's physical progression from ape to man the Tylorians simply evaded the issue . |
| 5 | Until 1948 , the Poor Law required children to maintain their parents and the law was implemented with varying degrees of rigour from district to district . |
| 6 | For example , although some companies will be happy to maintain foreign prices as a multiple of the UK price , this will not satisfy a company that needs to hold multi-currency price lists reflecting the different terms of payment from country to country . |
| 7 | These features now make PC-Write suitable for all levels of user from novice to expert . |
| 8 | These features now make PC-Write suitable for all levels of user from novice to expert . |
| 9 | Within the crowded streets and lively squares of the city lie a plethora of tiny open-air stalls selling everything from incense to caged pigeons , over six thousand restaurants serving the gamut of cuisine from Korean to French , and an array of gleaming hitech buildings housing progressive computer companies and financial whizzes . |
| 10 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 11 | Its membership and its political weight varied of course from time to time with the personality of the monarch and with changing circumstances . |
| 12 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 13 | Even if firms were completely market orientated , they would still make errors of judgement from time to time . |
| 14 | They can insert , delete , correct , paragraph , title , and move chunks of text from place to place . |
| 15 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 16 | Theo had been sending him sums of money from time to time through their father , keeping his name out of the transaction . |
| 17 | WITHOUT a doubt the most difficult move in golf is the change of direction from backswing to forward swing . |
| 18 | Crucially , it was air reconnaissance that informed the Allies , on 3 September , of Kluck 's change of direction from west to east of Paris . |
| 19 | Nor in my view will it look much like Kenneth Baker 's essentially hierarchical or military vision of a chain of command from centre to periphery , because curricula are not ultimately manageable in that way . |
| 20 | It was plain from the summing-up and the interview notes that the reason for the change of mind from denial to admission was the wish to prevent members of his family being interviewed , charged with or suspected of a crime which he was admitting . |
| 21 | Beyond a general shift of crime from town to country police ca n't say why Gloucestershire 's such a prime target |
| 22 | It is important to address an audience directly , using eye-contact , speaking to all sections of the room , and changing speech rhythms and levels to maintain attention , as well as adding touches of lightness from time to time , in the form of humour . |
| 23 | First , there may be an absence of altruism from parent to child ; perhaps more importantly , there may be an absence of altruism from child to parent . |
| 24 | First , there may be an absence of altruism from parent to child ; perhaps more importantly , there may be an absence of altruism from child to parent . |
| 25 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 26 | The depredations of the crown of thorns ( together with those of hurricanes ) may promote diversity , by forcing areas of reef from time to time to begin all over again . |
| 27 | Expenditure on national insurance benefits , benefits for which claimants become entitled because of their contribution record , covering a range of help from unemployment to old-age pensions , has risen by 400 per cent over the past thirty-five years up to 1984. -5 . |
| 28 | Tests from Galileo 's time up to the present reveal no variation in the rate of fall from material to material . |
| 29 | Through the emergence of the arts and crafts movement , Morris succeeded in establishing a craft tradition in which the individual could retain some control over every stage of manufacture from design to execution , and thereby gain a far more satisfactory relationship with the product . |
| 30 | And he sees this change as demonstrating a ‘ transformation of eroticism from manipulation to expression ’ . |