Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] from [noun sg] 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 | The knowledge that words are read from left to right , and from the top of the page to the bottom . |
| 3 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 4 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 5 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 6 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account . |
| 16 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Consider a translate instruction in which ( a ) The source and destination strings are scanned from right to left ; ( b ) Each entry in the translation table contains both a value to be inserted in the destination string , and the address of a new translation table for the next source character . |
| 21 | Star commands and their associated qualifiers are converted from lower-case to upper-case if necessary . |
| 22 | In the autoshaping procedure , pigeons are confronted from time to time with presentations of an illuminated disc ( a response key ) signalling the delivery of food . |
| 23 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 24 | Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment . |
| 25 | In the nineteenth century the Gunton Park was essentially a dairy herd and here the emphasis on a good milk yield at 4 per cent butterfat continued into the 1930s and 1940s , when the rest of the breeders were changing from dairy to dual-purpose types . |
| 26 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 27 | Apart from the wide range of orientation techniques used , the fact that orientation techniques are switched from year to year within individual libraries , and the fact that maybe several different techniques might be employed in any single library in any one year , is further illustration of uncertainty in this important area of user education . |
| 28 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 29 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 30 | At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction . |