Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Like telephone charges , they can be varied from day to day and between evenings and rush hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The incidence of customary tenure varied from region to region and from manor to manor . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Jay stood frozen from head to toe and watched the car accelerate down the road . |
| 9 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 10 | In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . , |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The parents separated from time to time and the father also served a prison sentence . |
| 14 | The upthrust is transmitted from wing to coracoid and the whole body is raised . |
| 15 | In many societies occupational status has been or still is transmitted from father to son and from mother to daughter . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Thus the Long Gilt suffered a mild setback in 1988 and 1989 as the public sector finances moved from deficit to surplus and the Treasury instituted a " buy-back " programme for long-dated gilts . |
| 19 | The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners . |
| 20 | The entire production including scenery , props and wardrobe would be transported from town to town and then most of the children recruited locally . |
| 21 | With more sophisticated design procedures under CAD , the balance of costs is clearly being shifted from manufacture to design and it becomes more important for cost accountants to use their cost analysis at the design phase ( i.e. the ex ante use of activity-based principles discussed earlier ) . |
| 22 | The rationale for care measures had shifted from control to prevention and re-socialization , hence the increasing reliance on pedagogy as a science and as a conceptual framework . |
| 23 | But at the back the bodice was slit from collar to midriff and the skirt was daringly short . |
| 24 | In fact I have a bill somewhere where the next door to me at at the shop on Street was papered from top to bottom and the total bill for the paper and labour I think is under three pounds and that included el e e e eleven rolls for a staircase . |
| 25 | The same clay is used from year to year and takes about three hours to reconstitute by soaking in water and disinfectant . |
| 26 | She felt as though flung from health to illness and back by the day , by the hour . |
| 27 | Over the years Gambo became quite famous , and found himself dragged from battle to battle and expected to launch his now famous Halfling hot pot into the enemy ranks . |
| 28 | Roach is a busy man : as well as continuing work with his quartet ( currently touring the UK ) , his double quartet , a percussion ensemble known as M'Boom and a forthcoming collaboration on a play about the Harlem Renaissance , he 's also involved with New York rappers in a project called From Bebop to Hiphop and Then There 's Max . |
| 29 | The 1931 treaty is automatically prolonged from year to year and each party has the right to terminate it after six months ' notification . |
| 30 | The landing was to be executed from east to west and embrace the whole southern coast of the island , from Sandown Bay , where the main body would land , to Chale , Brixton and Freshwater Bays … |