Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since — outside the public sector , or some industry-wide schemes — only Britain offers ‘ portable ’ pensions , carried by employees from job to job , British pension funds can expect to win recruits from other countries . |
| 2 | This process is slow in unmyelinated fibres but quicker in myelinated ones , when the action potential is transmitted by jumps from node to node . |
| 3 | This is arranged in encyclopaedic form , in loose-leaf binders , some statutes being reprinted with amendments from time to time . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 5 | Further they are in recognised literary genres , such as the diary — The Diary of Laura Palmer , for example — and , apart from the obligatory cover photograph , are filled with words from cover to cover . |
| 6 | The comments I made about the narrowness of Nicolson Street at the Community Centre was based on observations from Highways to the effect that it would not be possible to fit in a northbound bus lane unless there were only a single southbound lane and no bus stop . |
| 7 | He was America 's most prominent conductor and known for compositions from symphonies to musicals ; his most famous was West Side Story . |
| 8 | We should be proud of the English qualities to be found in writers from Chaucer to Dickens , from Shakespeare to Jane Austen , from Milton to Pope . |
| 9 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | But as they waited to be escorted by police from Waterloo to the concert , they were confronted by a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters . |
| 11 | She herself was dressed in sequins from head to toe . |
| 12 | A pleasure boat was moving upriver , ropes of coloured lights strung on poles from prow to stern . |
| 13 | An institution , which is recognized by commentators from Bagehot to Shils and Young as appealing to irrational sentiments , is given a rational justification . |
| 14 | This was not the case in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , and the Convention of Royal Burghs passed several Acts prohibiting any persons from being chosen as Commissioners from Boroughs to the Parliament , except freemen , merchants and traffickers . |
| 15 | Aimed at children from toddlers to early teens , this package provides many tutorials on basic maths , shapes , fractions and graphs . |