Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] 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 | The titles of the lectures included : Dr. Crawford on " The four stages of man 's existence considered in relation to Health and disease " and later on " Physiology ; " Mr Hector McLean on " Taste , " " Highland Poetry & Romance " and " The Study of Geology ; " Mr Chisholm on " Social Reform ; " Mr Lerach on " Burns ; " Mr Dewar on " Electricity ; " Mr Coath on " The Acquisition of Knowledge , " " The Study of Political & Constitutional History and its bearing on Christianity " and " Mental Philosophy ; " Rev. Hugh Monroe on " The Connection of Revelation with Geology " and " Our English Bible ; " Rev. McFadyen on " Rising in Life ; " Dr. Blair on " The Atmosphere " and " Health " where he condemned the Port Ellen water supply ; Colin Hay on " Agriculture & Commerce " and " Instinct & Reason . " |
| 10 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 11 | In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . , |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice . |
| 15 | The parents separated from time to time and the father also served a prison sentence . |
| 16 | The upthrust is transmitted from wing to coracoid and the whole body is raised . |
| 17 | In many societies occupational status has been or still is transmitted from father to son and from mother to daughter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners . |
| 22 | However , some interesting observations have been made in relation to adhesion and tumour spread . |
| 23 | The government has moved beyond exhortation to compulsion and thus removed yet another strand of local discretion . |
| 24 | All inheritance tax on death and on the making of gifts can now be avoided with respect to farming and other business assets . |
| 25 | The entire production including scenery , props and wardrobe would be transported from town to town and then most of the children recruited locally . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But at the back the bodice was slit from collar to midriff and the skirt was daringly short . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Analysis of incidences of adenoma , carcinoma , and pseudomelanosis coli was also performed in relation to sex and age groups . |