Example sentences of "a [noun sg] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The succession from Bevan to Michael Foot ( Nye 's biographer and Neil 's patron ) to Kinnock may be seen as a progress from genius to talent to mediocrity . |
| 2 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 3 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 4 | The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me . |
| 5 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 6 | But they have to call in a vet from time to time , and it 's with those farmers that I think you 'll have most success , just so long as you keep your charges low . ’ |
| 7 | Where there is not sufficient space to fit a rail from side to side , pull-out rails ( such as the extending wardrobe rail , or sliding wardrobe rail from Woodfit ) can be fitted from front to back to provide hanging space . |
| 8 | Whilst fucking have a look from time to time to make sure it 's still in one piece . |
| 9 | It came to her that she could tell where the walls stopped being her skin only because the blue shaded down a spectrum from azure to sapphire . |
| 10 | A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes , soon after Theunis 's death . |
| 11 | They also cover the cost of obtaining new appliances such as cookers if the move necessitates a change from electricity to gas or vice versa . |
| 12 | At the same time , he will be able to assess the impact on a firm of a change in its marketing strategy , for example a change from sales to production subsidiaries abroad . |
| 13 | A rateable value is intended to represent a rent from year to year at a specific date on terms laid down by regulations . |
| 14 | A power for nobody to determine or for one party only to be able to determine is inconsistent with the concept of a term from year to year : see Warner v. Browne , 8 East 165 and Cheshire Lines Committee v. Lewis & Co . , |
| 15 | A chemist by background , Worswick made a switch from research to commercial management quite early in his career . |
| 16 | The trust highlights changes in farming practice that have led to the decline , including a switch from spring to autumn cultivation , depriving the birds of stubble for winter feeding , the growth in the use of inorganic fertilisers and insecticides , and the greater effectiveness of herbicides in controlling weeds . |
| 17 | Necessity was the mother of invention for Dixon when refereeing interpretation compelled a switch from ruck to maul during Scotland 's 1988 tour to Zimbabwe — of which three survivors played on Saturday : Paul Burnell , Cronin and Derek Turnbull . |
| 18 | That a switch from tax to debt finance may affect the rate of capital formation has been argued by Modigliani ( 1961 ) in the context of a simple life-cycle model . |
| 19 | ‘ She also had short periods of respite care to give the parents a break from time to time . |
| 20 | It moves at a waddle from chance to chance , |
| 21 | It is not a command from God to advance on all fronts , but is a strategic word identifying and emphasising his order of priorities . |
| 22 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 23 | beneath the details of everyday life which Shamin describes is a feudal economy where small farmers scratch out a living from day to day , where one false step can mean falling into debt or mortgaging one 's land without hope of recovery and where one rebellious individual can place the entire economic unit , the joint family , at risk . |
| 24 | Theo 's salary was a small one , but out of it he managed to send Vincent a pittance from time to time . |
| 25 | All that has happened is that I met Hugo at a party and came to understand that , as well as having friend and spouse , a woman needs the excitement of a lover from time to time : a re-basing , as it were , in the physical : the reincarnation of the carnal self in a body which gets , over the years , far too controlled by spirit and mind . |
| 26 | The workers operate in pairs , following a car from station to station and carrying out the entire work assignment belonging to their team . |
| 27 | Redcar 's Stead Hospital has been able to create a home from home to help rehabilitate patients , thanks to the support of the town 's Rotary Club , which raised half of the £38,000 needed to provide a therapy suite . |
| 28 | Hello there … derby between Oxford and Swindon … it was a thriller from start to finish … with eight goals … five to United … three to Town |
| 29 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |
| 30 | Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 allows grant payments to be made to suitable applicants , provided that there will be a significant environmental benefit , the anticipated expenditure is of a capital not revenue nature , British Rail will carry the desired freight , the rail freight facilities will encourage a transfer from road to rail and that , relatively speaking , the wanted rail freight facilities would not be viable without a Section 8 payment . |