Example sentences of "range from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1180s his network of financial agents reached into almost every shire in England ; his clients ranged from the king of Scotland and the great religious houses to the local parish priests of Lincoln ; and his business interests involved not only mortgages , but also the purchase and sale of discounted bonds , pawnbroking , property development , and commodity brokering . |
| 2 | The effects ranged from the hilarity and confusion produced by laughing gas ( nitrous oxide in less than anaesthetic doses ) to a simple diminution of the sense of pain by fever-reducing drugs of the coal-tar dyestuffs industry ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 3 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 4 | These ranged from the Construction Industry Training Board to Portsmouth Polytechnic , Southampton Institute of Higher Education , Southampton Technical College and the Department of Building and Engineering at Highbury College of Technology , Cosham . |
| 5 | The theme was picked up in the ornaments , which in their turn ranged from the kind of small plaster ship one won at a fairground , to a vast silver centrepiece of a battle cruiser . |
| 6 | This ranged from the reproducibility of the film which is now telescoped through television and video ; to the opera or concert through the increased availability of gramophone recordings from the 1920s ; and to the reproduction of paintings themselves through photographic means in books , magazines , and television . |
| 7 | Issues ranged from the Cross Town Route in Darlington to worldwide energy conservation . |
| 8 | They changed with alarming frequency and ranged from the sweet to the sadistic . |
| 9 | Such alterations ranged from the introduction of record cards with ‘ unique ’ The 1944 Education Act assessment of character in Sheffield to the attempt to reduce the age-range of candidates in Caernarvonshire to those between the ages of ten and thirteen . |
| 10 | So were the arguments used to justify aristocracy , which ranged from the claim that it was natural ( Aristotle ) to arguments based upon the wisdom of having a specialized governing group in a caste society ( Plato , Confucius and Hindu political thinkers ) . |
| 11 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 12 | Additionally there was a vast number of statutory authorities ranging from the Port of London Authority to the Thames Conservancy , Drainage and Hospital Boards , Gas , Electric Supply . |
| 13 | Three types of treatment are available for down-filled bags , ranging from the two-season at £17.25 to the four-season costing £31.50 . |
| 14 | The sum of £250,000 has already been allocated to a number of projects , ranging from the purchase of Porthor in North Wales to the restoration of Biddulph Grange Garden where BBC gardening expert Geoff Hamilton accepted a cheque for £20,000 in May . |
| 15 | To their shame , many tourists fired up by the prospect of making a fast rupee , dirham or peso are prepared to haggle for everything , ranging from the price of a cup of tea to an airline ticket . |
| 16 | Similarly his sermons were memorable less for their theology than for digressions ranging from the price of second-hand books to a dramatic reading from Macbeth . |
| 17 | All aspects of the CAF are covered , ranging from the fighter fleet of Mustangs , P–40s and P–38s , naval wings with Avengers , Corsairs and Wildcats , the Tora ! |
| 18 | I sent details of the Black story to key churchmen , ranging from the Archbishop of Canterbury to prominent Quakers . |
| 19 | Without getting into these deep and murky waters , let me say that problem solving uses thinking , but that solving a genuine problem usually requires some creative act , ranging from the flash of insight that illuminates the entire problem to the glimmer of light that shows a direction to pursue ( and which may be a will o' the wisp ) . |
| 20 | A separate list drawn up by the Trust includes ten other monuments by Soane , ranging from the column in the park at Lemmington Hall , Northumberland to an obelisk at Boconnoc in Cornwall . |
| 21 | In the shadow of the British Museum , this is a calming red-morocco and calf-bound haven of Victorian literature , ranging from the correspondence of Cruikshank , through railway Yellowbacks , to a section on prisons and lunatic asylums . |
| 22 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 23 | The 1983/4 Time Budget Survey — the first national time use survey to be sponsored by the ESRC — has already proved to be a rich source of information and has yielded fruitful insights in a wide variety of areas , ranging from the division of labour in the home to the activities of unemployed and elderly people . |
| 24 | The summit will spend the next four days discussing issues ranging from the division of Cyprus to the war in Bosnia . |
| 25 | Australian test-tube teams have been freezing spare embryos since the programme began in 1981 — partly to avoid having to throw unwanted ones away — raising questions ranging from the ownership of the frozen embryo to who pays compensation if it is damaged . |
| 26 | Bobbing at anchor are thousands of vessels ranging from the trading ships of the merchant princes to the fanciful pleasure barges of the people of Lothern and the sleek , deadly warships of the High Elf fleet . |
| 27 | In 1985 there were over 5,500 conservation areas in England , ranging from the whole of the centres of such historic sites as Chester to small rural villages . |
| 28 | The term management information systems itself covers a wide variety of , mainly , computer developments , ranging from the installation of stand-alone microcomputers and wordprocessors , to the sophistication of the proposed computer system . |
| 29 | The French industry easily led the field with a huge panorama of most of the 100 or so films made during the year , ranging from the work of new directors ( such as Eric Rochant 's ‘ Aux yeux du monde ’ , a taut thriller about the kidnapping of a school bus ) to those little comedies and histoires d'amour , so beloved by the French , which never seem to get exported . |
| 30 | Much of this land was uninhabited , and for a variety of reasons ranging from the incidence of tsetse fly to the competing claims of different clans , farmers were reluctant to move into it . |