Example sentences of "range from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choices ranged from central SF authors and works such as Ray Bradbury , Arthur C. Clarke and The time machine , to less central or non-SF writers and books such as Enid Blyton , Salman Rushdie and Dracula . |
| 2 | These attempts , none too successful , ranged from various business ventures to a stint in the Netherlands ( 1745–7 ) as observer for the British government . |
| 3 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 4 | Among Japan 's leaders opinions of Western society ranged from utter condemnation of its values to defiant affirmations of its superiority . |
| 5 | The samples ranged from modern lacquer hardened in the laboratory to objects from the last centuries BC . |
| 6 | Transport is another area in which the discussion ranged from immediate action to changes only possible in the distant future . |
| 7 | His literary interests were remarkably wide and his expertise ranged from Anglo-Irish writing to Silver Age Latin epigrammatists ; but he published mainly on seventeenth-century comic or satirical dramatists , as his editions of Marston 's Malcontent and Vanbrugh 's Relapse testify . |
| 8 | Those who refused to give the figures ranged from tiny building societies , who simply did not have the technology to work out the sum , to large multi-national banks with copious staff and computers to hand . |
| 9 | The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial . |
| 10 | They ranged from deep night-purple through the varying shades of blue , orange , flame , and yellow to that pale , pure green seen on calm summer evenings . |
| 11 | The code of ethics ranged from strong drink to women of doubtful morals . |
| 12 | The assistance given ranged from financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice to the issuing of court orders . |
| 13 | The protests ranged from sensitive lobbying of the superpowers by the moderate Arab nations to the issuing of terrorist threats by Lebanese-based Moslem extremists [ see p. 37266 for statements by Arab Co-operation Council on the issue ] . |
| 14 | Reasons for exclusions ranged from physical abuse on staff , which accounted for 1.2 per cent of cases , to drugs ( 4pc ) , theft ( 5.5pc ) , ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ ( 17pc ) , verbal abuse to peers ( 14.9pc ) , verbal abuse of staff ( 12pc ) , and bullying , fighting or assault on peers ( 30.1pc ) . |
| 15 | This ranged from yellow gold with comparatively low values for silver , through pale yellow electrum with a higher silver content , to white gold which could pass for silver . |
| 16 | All the phases of reclamation are still visible today , together with traces of the complex methods of water removal which ranged from wind-driven scoop wheels , through steam engines and diesel pumps to the electric pumps of today . |
| 17 | Opinions ranged from outright support to outright opposition , with many respondents expressing concern or seeking information about particular aspects of the application . |
| 18 | There are English law cases of the late fifteenth-century for not providing meat , drink , and lodging to a retired father-in-law , while Swedish High Court disputes of two centuries later show grievances ranging from poor food to cursing and physical violence . |
| 19 | Variations in dip of master detachment fault structures , ranging from low angle ( 10° for South Mountains and Sevier Desert detachments ) to high angle , may then be controlled by lateral variations in thermal and mechanical properties of a layered crust . |
| 20 | Graydon tested out this system by producing a list of some hundreds of UK buyers for the credit insurer with each buyer measured with a risk score ranging from low risk to high risk . |
| 21 | It says it is looking to provide a full range of products ranging from low end consumer devices through to those aimed at users in vertical markets such as insurance or medicine . |
| 22 | Driving is a task which has many components ranging from overlearned perceptual-motor skills to complex aspects of judgment and decision making . |
| 23 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 24 | Half jokingly , Clare assumed the role of teacher-guide , and fed Carolyn a steady supply of reading material on the Women 's Movement , ranging from Spare Rib magazine to the lives of suffragettes ; from The Female Eunuch to pamphlets on Consciousness Raising . |
| 25 | Officials blamed the shortage on a combination of problems ranging from unanticipated demand , factory shutdowns because of equipment breakdown , a shortfall in imports because of changed COMECON trading arrangements , and even the nationalist turmoil in Armenia , where most filters were made . |
| 26 | The light-greens themselves are variegated , ranging from respectable Establishment bodies like the National Trust and the RSPB at one end to the more radical organisations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth at the other . |
| 27 | The college 's training department has since 1988 designed specialist short courses to business and industry , ranging from European marketing for managers to courses for engineers . |
| 28 | None the less , observers of animal behaviour know that altruistic acts with differing degrees of self-sacrifice are of common occurrence , ranging from parental care to group defence and rescue behaviour to complex forms of co-operation . |
| 29 | Many companies are making software announcements at the Supercomputing ‘ 92 : nCube reports that off-the-shelf software packages will be available on its massively parallel systems for applications ranging from molecular modelling to design pharmaceuticals and for oil exploration . |
| 30 | Applications ranging from molecular sequencing ( an important tool in bio-engineering ) to modelling oil reservoirs , image processing and high-energy physics were described . |