Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders . |
| 2 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 3 | People are already querying from time to time the de decision judges make . |
| 4 | On Singer/Superba machines , stitches are not transferred from side to side , but instead from back bed to front bed . |
| 5 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 6 | Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment . |
| 7 | The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting . |
| 8 | One becomes a member of a caste by being born into one of its lineages which are always transmitted from male to male . |
| 9 | Even if upward social mobility amongst non-political elites is possible , the absence of any alternation of political parties in power may also breed anti-system frustration amongst the leadership groups of minorities that are permanently excluded from access to governmental power . |
| 10 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |
| 11 | Sharks in general are n't flattened from side to side as free-swimming bony fish like herrings are . |
| 12 | Of course , if two members of staff happen to fall in love and decide to marry , it would be churlish to be apportioning blame ; but what I find a major irritation are those persons — and housekeepers are particularly guilty here — who have no genuine commitment to their profession and who are essentially going from post to post looking for romance . |