Example sentences of "range from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 2 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 3 | Advice ranged from the practical — what to do if you get a puncture or have to jump start your car , to the more psychological — how to outwit a potential attacker or abductor . |
| 4 | The local stations on this system ranged from the simple wooden building at Batu Gajah or Tampin to the large , airy , open-sided barn style at Teluk Anson . |
| 5 | These ranged from the high-profile national bodies like Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Council for the Protection of Rural England , who all had professional advocates to put their case , through to smaller but persistent participants like the South Wales Women 's Support Groups ( defending the interests of mining communities ) and the Irish Sea Project ( concerned about marine pollution ) . |
| 6 | His functions ranged from the fixed and formal to the highly uncertain . |
| 7 | These ranged from the mighty Rutland and Ampair models to the Forgen , an entirely different design of wind generator which has deeper vanes that rotate round a vertical shaft . |
| 8 | Answers ranged from the grudging to the generous , from the instantly certain to the flabbily relativistic . |
| 9 | Their homes ranged from the large subterranean winter lodges of the Nivkhs to light summer huts of branches , reeds and bark which in some cases were raised on stilts . |
| 10 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 11 | Punishments ranged from the formal reprimand to outright dismissal . |
| 12 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 13 | He had explored areas which ranged from the untidy and uncared for to the downright squalid . |
| 14 | As with teaching and journalism , so with literature : he developed his small talent to the full , writing short stories , poems , and plays in Irish and English , which ranged from the mawkish to the genuinely moving . |
| 15 | Her diets ranged from the high protein steak and salad to the Hay diet , which cuts out eating starch and protein at the same time . |
| 16 | They ranged from the self-pitiful ( ‘ Be nice to me — I gave blood today ’ ) to the egotistical ( ‘ I helped save a life today ’ ) to the plain daft ( ‘ Look at me — I gave blood ’ ) . |
| 17 | They ranged from the sleazy to the downright soppy . |
| 18 | They ranged from the modest puffing of his travel book by a visiting American author on Radio 4 to the screening of pre-launch films about the making of big budget movies such as Gandhi . |
| 19 | One group that disappeared was the fusulinids , complex protozoa that ranged from the microscopic to two or three inches in size . |
| 20 | The five and a half hectare site contains an astonishing jumble of over fifty separate buildings , ranging from the solid stonework of the 1819 prison to Victorian brickwork and a bewildering variety of modern additions , including the kitchens . |
| 21 | Erm I suppose we could talk about that highlights that a man in China is subjected to domination of three systems of authority , er the state system er which is political authority , the clan system , the clan authority erm ranging from the ancestral temple down to the head of household , and a supernatural system which is erm religious authority . |
| 22 | When you are with a group of people and someone decides to be kind and ‘ bring you in ’ , out of the blue you will be told ‘ We are talking about … ’ which could be anything ranging from the Prime Minister 's latest speech or last night 's TV programme to the odd behaviour of the woman next door . |
| 23 | Monday 's display ran like clockwork , opening and closing of course with Sally B , in between which a veritable pageant of flight took place , ranging from the Barnstorming Days with the Crunchie Stearman trio , Dragon Rapide G–AKIF and the Tiger Moth Diamond Nine team ( the latter operating eight Tigers and a Hornet Moth ) , Biplane Warplanes involved the Shuttleworth Collection 's Hawker Hind and Gloster Gladiator ( making first appearance at GWAD ) and recently — revitalised Swordfish LS326 of the Navy 's Historic Flight . |
| 24 | By contrast Sofia , the capital , was the stronghold of the UDF , which comprised some 16 different parties or movements ranging from the environmental group Eco-Glasnost ( which had been the first to oppose the former communist regime — see p. 36980 ) to Podkrepa , the rapidly growing free trade union movement . |
| 25 | George Bernard Shaw 's gentle comedy , written in 1933 , is a tender and touching tale of the battle between the sexes — with locations ranging from the sun-drenched deck of the pleasure ship Empress of Patagonia to a village shop on the Downs ! |
| 26 | Originally comprised of five people with backgrounds ranging from the visual arts to music , dance , drama and writing , the group made exciting forays into cross-art forms . |
| 27 | They emphasize qualitative and quantitative approaches , methods ranging from the rational to the intuitive , and the role of the clients in the evaluative process . |
| 28 | ‘ Western Decorative Art 1850 Towards 2000 ’ offers a delicious feast for eyes with objects ranging from the mass-produced to the select few . |
| 29 | They are so versatile — ranging from the elegant to the honestly simple , from the highly spiced to the delicately flavoured . |
| 30 | It has published a booklet , called New Arrivals — A Guide to Non-religious Naming Ceremonies , which gives five alternatives , ranging from the personal to something similar to the vows in the Christian ceremony but without reference to a deity . |