Example sentences of "from the [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Mouse ICM is much more susceptible to lethal damage by X-irradiation or anti-metabolites than TE and treatment of embryos ( starting from the 2- to 8- cell stage ) with a variety of these reagents has been used to generate trophectodermal vesicles devoid of any apparent ICM ( discussed in ref. 28 ) . |
2 | Meanwhile , much smaller North West neighbour Liverpool is looking to continue building up domestic and regional aviation-related business following its becoming the first local authority-owned airport to transfer from the public to private sector when it was bought by British Aerospace in 1990 . |
3 | Well we 're all , I think , federalists and believe that power should cascade from the top to that level of decision making best able to take the decision . |
4 | It shows a seven per cent swing from the Conservatives to Labour overall , and in some areas the swing is as high as 10.5 per cent . |
5 | The ICM survey shows a 7pc swing from the Conservatives to Labour overall , and in some areas the swing is as high as 10.5pc . |
6 | However , several WFS surveys inquired separately about the number of months after the birth or the age of the child when the respondent resumed sexual relations ; from the answers to this question a more valid picture emerges both on the prevalence and the length of abstinence . |
7 | Even so , force is , in the ideal state , primarily an exclusive instrument of the state , though even here force diffuses outwards from the state to civil society and to sections of its population and , as such , is intimately connected with hegemony . |
8 | An increase in transfer of power from the state to local government would also make institutions more accountable . |
9 | The Jurua was still distant from the devastation and conflicts brought by cattle ranchers from the South to eastern Acre , around Chico Mendes 's home town of Xapuri . |
10 | In a May 27 statement , Hussein Musavi , leader of Islamic Amal ( a Hezbollah faction ) , offered the release of some British hostages in exchange for the expulsion from the UK to any country it chose of Salman Rushdie , the author of the controversial novel The Satanic Verses [ see pp. 36450-51 ] . |
11 | The main cost of this benefit comes from the subsidy to approved pension schemes costing £1.6 billion in 1987–8 ; subsidizing employers ' contributions to funded pension schemes ( £2.9 billion ) ; exempting investment income of occupational pension schemes ( £4.1 billion ) ; and exempting lump sum payments ( £1.2 billion ) . |
12 | Now the cubit ( traditionally the length of a man 's forearm from the elbow to clenched fist ) is the principal unit of linear measurement in the Bible , and was used too in Egypt and Mesopotamia . |
13 | As you will see from the heading to this minute , I have decided that for the time being we are ‘ the Strategy Unit ’ . |
14 | The first of these was converted from the abbey to great house in a very short time , a transaction made easier by Browne 's use of the abbot 's lodging as the centre of his new house . |
15 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
16 | EDWIN POUNCEY : Renowned noisenik also better known as Savage Pencil , legendary ink-abuser responsible for classic sleeves from The Lurkers to Sonic Youth |
17 | This is done by writing a random bit from the generator to each cell in turn , in every node . |
18 | DINOSAUR JR : ‘ Get Me ’ J Mascis and co 's first release in over 12 months , a teaser from the follow-up to last year 's ‘ Green Mind ’ album , backed with a cover of Gram Parsons ‘ Hot Burrito £2 ’ |
19 | The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage . |
20 | Thus the first two bits might be connected to the gates which control the data paths from the accumulator to each side of the adder , the next two to the gates which control the data paths from the SDR to each side of the adder , and the next one to the gate which controls the data path from the adder output to the accumulator . |
21 | One village was the birthplace of Ibn Toumert , creator of an early Berber dynasty which founded Tin Mal and then Marrakech , to end with an empire stretching from the Sahara to half way up Sapin . |
22 | For unlike fundamentalism which , draws its strength from the claim to universal truth , theoretically applicable to all , nationalism by definition excludes from its purview all who do not belong to its own ‘ nation ’ , ie , the vast majority of the human race . |
23 | This masterpiece lacks its head ; but if we look from the hawk-priestess to some marble heads of the later sixth century we see the beginning and end of the tradition in which it must have been made . |
24 | The main reason for the continual losses , apart from the switch to private car transport already outlined , is that the modal split outlined in Table 6.1a makes it very difficult to provide an economically efficient service . |
25 | Under optimal conditions , development from the egg to infective stage occurs in 1-2 weeks . |
26 | What you have to remember if tempted to copy any ‘ late-hit ’ pose , is that the professional will move his clubhead through almost half a circle while his hands may only have moved about 18 inches from the right to left thigh , and then only because he has already got the clubhead moving fast . |
27 | I was referred to R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 3 which refers to the appeal being by way of rehearing , but that of course is the same phrase as is used in R.S.C. , Ord. 59 which states that appeals to the Court of Appeal are by way of rehearing and , to put it shortly , without quoting from the note to that rule , it is plain that all that means is that the Court of Appeal has a wide ranging power to consider and deal with the way in which the court below came to its decision but it is not empowered to hear evidence , except in certain exceptional circumstances : see , too , Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters , 16th ed. ( 1991 ) , p. 1388 , para. 49.2 . |
28 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
29 | Major loans from the Hermitage to outstanding show in restored Napoleonic rooms |
30 | The difficulty for the vendor is that , as a result of the sale , the vendor may be left with no facilities to perform obligations under such contract and may face a claim from the party to that contract for breach . |