Example sentences of "[noun pl] from [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most important uses of demographic data , particularly the Decennial Census , is in allocating funds from Central Government to Local Government and to the National Health Service . |
| 2 | They release , on average , ten LPs every week on different labels and cover all musical styles from popular classics to death metal . |
| 3 | They release , on average , ten LPs every week on different labels and cover all musical styles from popular classics to death metal . |
| 4 | The amphitheatre measures 498 by 404 feet from exterior wall to wall ( 129 ) . |
| 5 | ( The old technology was not without its hazards — which ranged from burns from molten metal to eye-strain caused by reading metal type in poor light . ) |
| 6 | Another way of handling indexicals is to think of the specification of the content of an utterance as a two stage affair : the " meaning " of an utterance is a function from contexts ( sets of indices ) to propositions , which are in turn functions from possible worlds to truth values ( Montague , 1970 ; Stalnaker , 1972 ) . |
| 7 | Among its specific requests , it calls on governments to : , transfer resources from military expenditure to disaster relief , double family planning services , write-off official debts of low-income countries , reduce the use of fossil fuels , tighten safety standards in hazardous industries , create a market for forest products from sustainable sources . |
| 8 | Some of them are explained in more detail on the following pages along with accounts of Tesco 's efforts to tackle a range of problems from toxic chemicals to energy conservation . |
| 9 | In Victorian times head gardeners were expected to provide vegetables from New Year to Christmas . |
| 10 | This means cases ( which are generally adjourned four times from first hearing to sentence ) are taking 20 weeks to complete instead of eight . |
| 11 | Over ninety dealers will exhibit a broad range of objects from English furniture to silver , porcelain , clocks and paintings . |
| 12 | It may involve one or more of a range of assessment activities from informal observation to oral , practical , or written procedures . |
| 13 | A gravel drive — Quinn had heard the crunching of the gravel — about ten yards from front gate to garage doors , automatic door-opening system , integral garage ; a house with a concrete cellar beneath it — the estate agents could help here . |
| 14 | This would lead to the transfer of children 's day centres from social work to education and their possible future demise . |
| 15 | Bradlow et al reviewed 3678 referrals from general practitioners to dermatology outpatient clinics and found that 26% of patients were referred for diagnosis or investigation , 14% for advice only , 63% for treatment or management , and 2% for a second opinion or reassurance . |
| 16 | The work can be at various levels from initial reconnaissance to diamond drilling but is not intended to go beyond the discovery stage of a mineral deposit . |
| 17 | In this industry NVQs can be gained at four levels from basic craft to management . |
| 18 | Pollution Control : A comprehensive plan is introduced for modernising pollution control by looking at discharges from big factories to air , water and land as one big package , requiring one licence . |
| 19 | There was no shortage of excellent building materials from varied marbles to stone , brick and volcanic substances . |
| 20 | The maximum penalty for conspiracy to murder was increased from ten years to life ; for causing explosions from twenty years to life ; and membership of proscribed organisations from five years to ten . |
| 21 | There 'll be eight games from Good Friday to Easter Sunday , with accommodation and between-venues travel for those seeking it and ground hoppers social evenings on Friday and Saturday . |
| 22 | Laid across a map of Israel , these documents form a patchwork of disputed ownership , a matrix of lands from northern Galilee to Ashqelon for which there are now in existence two perfectly legal deeds : one , in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv or Beersheba , proving irrefutably that the land is now owned by an Israeli , the other — in Beirut or Amman — showing that the rightful owner is a Palestinian Arab . |
| 23 | Calculations are made of your peak running speed , maximum oxygen uptake , ideal training speed , running efficiency , anaerobic threshold and anticipated running times for races from one mile to marathon . |
| 24 | Ethologists have not yet begun to grasp at the crucial characteristic of human beings that tends to invalidate all but the most cautious inferences from other animals to Man . |
| 25 | There are , however , two styles of shroud , one all-enveloping with top-knot and flowing drapery at the feet , the fabric pushed apart to exhibit the remains from upper pelvis to forehead and with the arms crossed over the breast so that the fingers touch the shoulders ; the other is knotted at top and bottom with the skeleton free-standing , something achieved by sitting the top-knot on the skull and letting the rest fall freely , acting as a backdrop to the ghastly remains , with the arms dangling free and the hands outstretched . |
| 26 | To give one example , items in a coordinated list are typically incompatibles , and gross deviations from this lead to abnormality : |
| 27 | In PSC , abnormalities in lymphocyte subsets exist in peripheral blood , there is enhanced autoreactivity of suppressor/cytotoxic T cells from peripheral blood to class II major histocompatability antigens , and aberrant expression of class II antigens on biliary epithelium has been found . |