Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 So far we have looked at the consensual influence of television : at influences that varied from time to time but affected all or most citizens at any one time .
2 He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible .
3 He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible .
4 He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible .
5 To be specific , do Jewish and Arabic readers have comic strips that read from right to left , as their script does ?
6 The incident mentioned by the hon. Lady is clearly deplorable , as are the deportations that occur from time to time and the closures of universities , about which we have also protested .
7 ‘ M'kata was a natural , one of those geniuses that emerge from time to time in the game .
8 Harry demonstrated their strength by whipping off his shoes and walking from root to tip with neither give or wrinkling .
9 He fingerspelt Bobo want chocolate ? and got what he thought might be an expression of interest as Bobo made a couple of deep whoo noises and rocked from side to side .
10 motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ;
11 From here he controlled a web of spies and informers that ran from Madurai to Attock , from the beaches of Malabar to the mangrove swamps of Bengal .
12 If science is based on experience , then by what means is it possible to get from the singular statements that result from observation to the universal statements that make up scientific knowledge ?
13 He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt .
14 The Largs-based professional slumped to 51st on the Order of Merit last season but , thanks to his new extra long putter , he has solved his short game problems and gone from strength to strength .
15 Existing guarantees offer extra rights but vary from maker to maker .
16 If we want to erect any distinction , it should be between genes that pass from body to body via the orthodox route of sperms or eggs , and genes that pass from body to body via unorthodox , ‘ sideways ’ routes .
17 If we want to erect any distinction , it should be between genes that pass from body to body via the orthodox route of sperms or eggs , and genes that pass from body to body via unorthodox , ‘ sideways ’ routes .
18 Others , particularly those trained at the aforesaid establishments , absolutely loathed the sight of him and loved to recount his various gaffes and bêtises from time to time .
19 Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot .
20 It would be interesting to note also the stresses that occur from time to time , be they physical , mental or emotional and to observe their effect on health .
21 Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat .
22 It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean .
23 Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths .
24 While this is true , we want you to feel in control of your weight and to be able to interpret the minor fluctuations that occur from day to day .
25 This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year .
26 It was just one of those odd coincidences that happened from time to time .
27 ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on .
28 The directors are probably used to the supernatural events that happen from time to time ; the very fact that the building has connections with the railways has possibly something to do with the old railwayman but in what context I do not know .
29 The old parish of Drumcree contained 66 townlands and stretched from Muckery to Ballyworkan .
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