Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 2 | Headteachers are paid from £23,000 to £50,000 . |
| 3 | Frozen chicken thighs are reduced from £2.68 to £1.98 for 3lb and Kiwi fruit are 9p instead of 15p each . |
| 4 | The knowledge that words are read from left to right , and from the top of the page to the bottom . |
| 5 | Bedrooms are airconditioned from June to September . |
| 6 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 7 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 8 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 9 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 10 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 11 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 12 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 13 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |
| 14 | WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol . |
| 15 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 16 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 17 | I stood on the winner 's rostrum swathed in the Union Jack , the photographers ' light bulbs flashing , the crowd clapping , cheering , other Union Jacks being waved from side to side . |
| 18 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
| 19 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 20 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 21 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
| 22 | The number of visitors is increasing from year to year but at the peak of the holiday season this is causing more congestion and overuse of the landscape . |
| 23 | The limit in respect of visitors ' personal effects is increased from £100 to £250 . |
| 24 | Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account . |
| 25 | Navy gaberdine trousers are reduced from £139 to £79 and grey flannel shirt-dresses from £159 to £99 . |
| 26 | Within departments , too , strains may be caused as establishment and finance responsibilities are decentralized from headquarters to new responsibility centres . |
| 27 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was the day for the sale of sheep , and we saw many little lots under the guardianship of shepherds and collie dogs ; eager buyers were going from group to group , judging their respective merits — now taking a hold of a sheep to feel his weight , and noting the quality of his fleece . |
| 30 | Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive . |