Example sentences of "are [vb pp] from [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The three departments , however , do use official statistics in the detailed studies which are done from time to time on a one-off basis . |
| 10 | The king and his brother are seen from time to time , if infrequently — and appear lively and in good health . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Small amounts of contaminants are transferred from mother to foetus , but much greater quantities are passed to the suckling young through her milk . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some sophisticated services send out portfolios of material to selected users and these are updated from time to time . |
| 20 | Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice . |
| 21 | The same old commentators are wheeled from channel to channel to comment on the same snippets of film . |
| 22 | Star commands and their associated qualifiers are converted from lower-case to upper-case if necessary . |
| 23 | have been a full-time teacher for at least two years in college , polytechnic or university teaching students following a course leading to the HCIMA professional examination or such other qualifications as are defined from time to time by the council |
| 24 | Thus numeric operands are held in sign-and-magnitude form , with the sign on the right , since operands are processed from right to left . |
| 25 | Since instructions are processed from left to right on this computer ( unlike data which is processed from right to left ) , the characters of an instruction are picked up until a word mark is reached ( indicating the beginning of the next instruction ) ; the instruction is then executed . |
| 26 | Apart from the wide range of orientation techniques used , the fact that orientation techniques are switched from year to year within individual libraries , and the fact that maybe several different techniques might be employed in any single library in any one year , is further illustration of uncertainty in this important area of user education . |
| 27 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 28 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 29 | The overall law of this country is laid down and maintained by Parliament by means of Acts which are passed from time to time . |
| 30 | Diseased organs are passed from doctor to doctor on plastic lunch trays . |