Example sentences of "are [verb] from [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations .
2 Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases .
3 Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans .
4 shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world .
5 I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics .
6 Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time .
7 Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly .
8 In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory .
9 At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis .
10 The three departments , however , do use official statistics in the detailed studies which are done from time to time on a one-off basis .
11 Red-necked Grebes have been recorded in every month from August to May , but most are seen from October to February .
12 The king and his brother are seen from time to time , if infrequently — and appear lively and in good health .
13 Killer whales and pilot whales belong to the group known as ‘ toothed whales ’ ( and are related to the dolphins ) and both are seen from time to time around Shetland .
14 Bedrooms are airconditioned from June to September .
15 Consider a translate instruction in which ( a ) The source and destination strings are scanned from right to left ; ( b ) Each entry in the translation table contains both a value to be inserted in the destination string , and the address of a new translation table for the next source character .
16 We are mesmerised by the mystery of young women 's bodies , trying to unlock their secrets with words that are whispered from desk to desk .
17 Small amounts of contaminants are transferred from mother to foetus , but much greater quantities are passed to the suckling young through her milk .
18 Some compartments in the model could be subdivided : for example , radionuclides are transferred from animals to people by drinking milk or by eating the animal meat , and while the consumption of milk is a fast pathway , that of meat is slower .
19 The cards are marked in such a way that stitches are transferred from right to left on some rows and from left to right on other rows , so avoiding a bias .
20 This pattern occurs frequently due to factors such as the way in which meter readings for , say , electricity supply are made from house to house , i.e. not at random , or the effects of localized advertising campaigns on a larger file in which many unaffected records are stored .
21 However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) .
22 For Cubo , who teaches history , the causes of World War One have more to do with the battle over markets and raw materials than with the assassination of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand ( the classical explanation that children are offered from Melbourne to Montreal ) .
23 Gallery houses a collection of work by Sir Alfred East R.A. ( 1849–1913 ) , and other artists with Kettering connections which are shown from time to time .
24 While this may mean that disabled people are shifting from institutions to ghettoes , it nevertheless heralds an age when disabled people are not to be cured as such .
25 WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol .
26 Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account .
27 Some sophisticated services send out portfolios of material to selected users and these are updated from time to time .
28 Tree shrews are found from Borneo to India , where the Madras tree shrew extends its range from the forest into scrub land .
29 Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice .
30 The same old commentators are wheeled from channel to channel to comment on the same snippets of film .
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