Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On that basis , the male is programmed to go from nightclub to nightclub and bed to bed , scattering his seed about the place to produce as many new disco-dancing Lotharios as possible .
2 The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board .
3 An example of a clause providing for the payment of a participating dividend is : The Company shall after making all necessary provisions for payment of the Preference Dividend ( including any Arrears ) and the redemption of the Preference Shares but in priority to payment of any dividend to the holders of Ordinary Shares , pay to the holders of the Preferred Ordinary Shares as from ( and inclusive of ) the accounting period ending … , subject to payment in full of the Preferred Dividend ( including any Arrears of the same ) pay to the holders of Preferred Ordinary Shares a cumulative cash dividend ( " the Participating Dividend " ) of a sum ( net of any advance corporation tax payable by the Company ) equal to … % of the Profit After Tax for each accounting period of the Company ; the Participating Dividend shall be deemed to accrue from day to day throughout each accounting period and shall become payable and be paid not later than four months immediately following the end of the accounting period to which it relates .
4 His articles on his childhood and schooldays had won praise from time to time from all but the most dour Communists , who resented his privileged background .
5 I found that the strictness with which these criteria are applied varies from region to region , and that the Department of Health is prepared to be flexible if you can argue a cogent case .
6 The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage .
7 Second , why are the meanings of words often felt to change from context to context , and how is successful communication possible if such instability exists ?
8 A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) .
9 Equal quantities of purified GST or GST-protein A ( GST-PA ) were applied to nitrocellulose from left to right as 5 µl drops in four-fold dilutions ( in NT buffer — 150 mM NaCl , 50 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.5 ) from 1 µg to 1 ng .
10 Light was admitted during the daytime through the long framed windows fitted with moulded glass , which could be seen stretching from end to end of the van under the cornice .
11 How these colours are used differs from regiment to regiment , and the examples shown represent just one variation for each state .
12 The trouble is that what is measured differs from medium to medium , and , therefore , cost measurements differ almost completely between , say , TV and posters in what they are costs of .
13 Obviously , it is a matter of judgement just what coverage , and what frequency to aim at — especially when you remember that the type of ‘ reach ’ being measured differs from medium to medium .
14 This has provided coca growers with the training and tools needed to switch from coca to tea , bananas and livestock .
15 Successful students receive the profile assessment of their language skills , confirmed by a course certificate : the range of achievement that can be certificated extends from GCSE to post GCE A-level .
16 But the way the roles are played varies from occasion to occasion according to which particular individual is playing which particular part at any particular time .
17 The actual length of time one is asleep before this level is reached varies from person to person .
18 Also expatriates ' shopping habits are bound to vary from individual to individual .
19 The best solution was found to differ from area to area and enterprise to enterprise .
20 The way in which such imputed values are found varies from case to case and is seldom straightforward .
21 The comparative implications of adopting this approach are that the meaning of what we are labelling ‘ aggression ’ will necessarily vary from case to case , depending on how the native concepts to which it is opposed vary from case to case .
22 The amount charged varies from lender to lender .
23 It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise .
24 The modern modification of representative democracy is therefore to see the public as being allowed to choose from time to time between two or more broad political programmes , and being able to reject a party that has failed to carry out its promises .
25 There is , however , a video of his performance which he is encouraged to play from time to time by his two children .
26 Therefore it is proposed that national supervisory rules should be harmonized , not in every detail , but only in the key factors — other less crucial aspects of the rules can be allowed to vary from country to country and be subject to mutual recognition .
27 At first it was very difficult , but now we 've learned to live from day to day .
28 And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram .
29 The extent to which these have been achieved varies from authority to authority but , in some , considerable progress has been made towards integration .
30 Just how the distinction is established varies from system to system but usually " we " , the insiders , are treated as " true " kin .
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