Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 2 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 3 | And colleagues , a couple of colleagues that , er , few of us appear to appreciate from time to time , and those are the signers who do a very important job for some delegates who are here this week . |
| 4 | It 's not everyone who contrive to lose at home to Luton . |
| 5 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
| 6 | In fact , they all look like they should be in different bands — which is how they manage to slip from soul to jazz , from funk to thrash , so easily . |
| 7 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
| 8 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
| 9 | I remember sneaking from school to watch old Titford 's funeral procession and standing under the chestnut trees and thinking how beautiful the singing in church sounded . |
| 10 | Few things are consistent in the social services : each service tends to be financed differently ; the statutory basis , the context of the central/local government relationship and distribution of control , and the underlying social principles all tend to vary from service to service . |
| 11 | These patterns , each of which can be characterized in fractal terms , continue to change from step to step , unfolding a remarkable sequence , dynamic fractals . |
| 12 | Given the significance of regular heroin use , the psychological and physical dependency often associated with the drug , and the all-embracing nature of the lifestyle usually required to secure funds and supplies , users tend to live from moment to moment and find little time for reflecting upon their situation . |
| 13 | Twist your body to the left and keep alternating from side to side . |
| 14 | ‘ And keep swinging from side to side ! |
| 15 | The Co Antrim team certainly had cause to celebrate after storming to the title after five years in the doldrums … and now they aim to go from strength to strength . |
| 16 | Commitments do exist from year to year and constant re-evaluation is impractical and might prove more destructive than constructive . |
| 17 | Spokespeople will not confirm this , but point out that numbers do fluctuate from year to year . |
| 18 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 19 | The non-dipole terms give a site dependence to the VGP paths ; they tend to move from east to west if the site is northeast or southwest of the point 0°N ; 90°E and from west to east if the site is northwest or southeast of it . |
| 20 | Many 's the time I 've slipped from top to bottom of the ladder , making a noise like the crack of doom , which was not however , sufficient to wake them ( as I could tell by their uninterrupted snores ) . |
| 21 | We 've gone from strength to strength from there qualifying for last year 's UK Team Chase Championships . |
| 22 | I mean obviously since we was established in nineteen eighty three we 've gone from strength to strength , and the only way that any company can do that is by offering good service all round . |
| 23 | Both require desludging from time to time , which is normally by pumping out using a tanker . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , I 've done this I 've done that , I 've done this oh yeah , yeah , yeah , some of us have to go to school to work |
| 25 | Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier . |
| 26 | The image of policing gleaned from police programmes on British and American television and in films is very much how Easton 's police see themselves , as others have commented with respect to police forces elsewhere ( Holdaway 1983 : 147 ; Hurd 1979 ; Klockars 1983 ; Morris and Heal 1981 ; Tuska 1979 ) . |
| 27 | From what I have gathered from talking to other business people they have also seen an increase in business . |
| 28 | Oh , yes , I know I 've got tomorrow off as well , but David 's off today too , and he 's promised to ferry me around if I need to go from place to place . ’ |
| 29 | These have formed in response to influxes of meteoric water during phases of uplift and exposure , and may be developed in either platform or slope sediments . |
| 30 | As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time . |