Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] to [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 2 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 3 | The union pointed out that under the Merchant Shipping Act , the loss of a ship terminated a seaman 's contract and that newcomers would expect the wages which they had previously enjoyed ; since these varied from port to port and ship to ship , domestic peace on board would be unlikely . |
| 4 | Like telephone charges , they can be varied from day to day and between evenings and rush hours . |
| 5 | The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it . |
| 6 | The rate of acquisition of these various classes of assets has varied from year to year but with the exception of overseas securities holdings , which have tended to rise as a proportion of the total since 1980 , there are no significant trends . |
| 7 | The actual pattern varied from town to town and decade to decade but there is abundant evidence of a modest and continued prosperity in the smaller centres such as Petworth , Midhurst and Steyning where a large number of the houses have survived . |
| 8 | The incidence of customary tenure varied from region to region and from manor to manor . |
| 9 | The copper content varied from place to place but rich solid chalcopyrite was found in places , particularly where veins came together or at junctions with cross-faults to form " bunches " . |
| 10 | ‘ Crimes ’ varied from place to place and from time-period to time-period ; they reflected the interests , moral concerns and ideological positions of those who were in the power positions that defined and enforced them . |
| 11 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 12 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 13 | In this context Marxism furnishes its own distinctive teleology of the oppressed , which can easily be transposed from class to nation or ‘ race ’ . |
| 14 | a positive or negative image transposed from left to right as in a mirror reflection of the original . |
| 15 | Jay stood frozen from head to toe and watched the car accelerate down the road . |
| 16 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 17 | In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’ |
| 18 | As always with matters of team work , the basic environmental factors differed from case to case and complicated any analysis of what constitutes a ‘ team ’ ( Marshall , et al . , |
| 19 | The scheme may well now be complete , but revision is recommended from time to time and thought must be given as to how this might be achieved . |
| 20 | Attention to detail , like holding one 's briefcase in the left hand so that the right can be used for the handshake , removes the possibility of an awkward moment when a briefcase is clumsily transferred from right to left as the buyer extends his hand in greeting . |
| 21 | The one I have chosen is this — brief , informal letters , written from time to time as our work proceeds , in a plain , straightforward style , as it might be to a friend . |
| 22 | The parents separated from time to time and the father also served a prison sentence . |
| 23 | HIV is not easily transmitted from person to person except by ‘ high risk ’ activity . |
| 24 | It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice . |
| 25 | The upthrust is transmitted from wing to coracoid and the whole body is raised . |
| 26 | In many societies occupational status has been or still is transmitted from father to son and from mother to daughter . |
| 27 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 28 | Like an out-take from Falcon Crest , Souness and his wife moved from villa to mansion and back again , but his incurable obsession with football ultimately led to divorce and to a painful separation which distanced Souness from his children . |
| 29 | Alternatively cards may be moved from pile to pile if they match the suit of the card underneath and have a lower face value . |
| 30 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |