Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I write all right from night to night , |
| 2 | Not all fathers or mothers were converted so easily from tyranny to benevolence , but , by the 1740s , a new attitude to children was spreading steadily among the middle and upper classes . |
| 3 | Not the specific details , because domestic life is changing so radically from decade to decade : its structure is also strongly influenced by patterns of child care and external work . |
| 4 | In practice it is difficult to accurately measure such a small drop , and weight does fluctuate a little anyway from day to day . |
| 5 | FOR an economy that is supposedly manipulated to make it impervious to market forces , Japan has moved remarkably rapidly from joy to gloom . |
| 6 | However , the economic benefit gained from such treatment varies considerably from farm to farm and also apparently from country to country and there are as yet insufficient grounds for advocating routine treatment of herds at calving . |
| 7 | In 1675 the Lords of Trade had ten colonies on the North American seacoast to think about , stretching roughly from Portsmouth ( in what was still part of Massachusetts ) to Charleston , a length of coast running about as far from north to south as that of Britain . |
| 8 | In the present she mostly enjoyed herself , or had so far : ‘ I 've been sad so often yet from day to day I 've enjoyed everything that was going . ’ |
| 9 | The amount of force needed to lock them will vary considerably from aircraft to aircraft and even perhaps from day to day . |
| 10 | There was a moment 's quietness , as of a grace before a meal , and then the mare stepped sweetly forward from leg to hand . |
| 11 | We used to take a basket and trudge over a mile to a huge horse chestnut tree that grew just past Petersfinger on the Southampton Road , its branches stretching right across from side to side . |
| 12 | Although the result lacks the variety of texture claimed above for genuine Eckard , it happens to resemble closely the somewhat exceptional authentic but unascribed piece by that composer on p.100 , in which the same accompanimental figure runs almost uninterruptedly from beginning to end . |
| 13 | The beetle Dynastes hercules can change colour quite quickly from yellow to black and vice versa . |
| 14 | Emily was rolling almost rhythmically from side to side in the bed with her arms crossed over her breasts and her eyes wide open and staring . |
| 15 | Quite apart from aid to sunrise industries , UK policy provides substantial tax breaks for those investing in small firms . |
| 16 | Having collected for Wings Appeal at a number of sites ( railway stations , house-to-house , town centres , London ) over the years it is apparent that the collection rate per hour varies quite significantly from point to point . |
| 17 | It has to be emphasised that the numbers of casualties often vary quite considerably from year to year as a result of weather and a number of external factors which affect the amount of travel . |
| 18 | STROKE firmly upwards from knee to waist with your hands or a massage gadget . |
| 19 | If the tail swings very vigorously from side to side it usually means that the animal is about to attack , if it can summon up that last ounce of aggression . |
| 20 | However , hormonal levels may very widely from person to person , just as metabolic rate may . |
| 21 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 22 | FOR example : Do 100 house-estate infills vary that much from district TO district ? |
| 23 | Were you to want to travel truly scenically from Bayonne to Cambo , or from Cambo to Bayonne for that matter , then you would take the road very magnificently known as the Route Impériale tea Cimes , or ‘ Imperial Route of the Peaks ’ , which lies east of the main road and is many times more beautiful . |
| 24 | Each tier is pierced by a symmetrical row of windows , the windows varying very slightly from floor to floor — double with rectangle and square , as before but with arched , decorated lintel , single with triangular lintel — and the whole is finished with a stone balustrade . |
| 25 | Freud thought that there is a difference between neurotics and primitives , which is , that primitives proceed very often from thought to deed . |
| 26 | For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud . |
| 27 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |