Example sentences of "from [noun] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kernigan on loan from Middlesbrugh to Charlton at the moment after his display especially under the siege in the first half , surely they 'll want to sign him . |
| 2 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 3 | In a wide band of west Africa , from Dakar to Kano including the ‘ sahelian ’ and ‘ sudanian ’ zones , the total population in 1980 was about 30 million at an average of 17 people per square kilometre . |
| 4 | The final section of the book , " Form and function " , contains a variety of approaches to the problem of the switch from description to interpretation in the analysis of texts . |
| 5 | The series by Berg shown in Example 122 was obviously designed to give a lyrical melodic sweep to the melody in the second movement of his Lyric Suite for string quartet : It will be noted that Berg 's series contains three distinct tonal groups : minor chords on D and F , and four notes from G to D within the tonal zone of G. However , tonal factors are less essential to a good melodic series than variety of intervals and memorable interval relationships . |
| 6 | Many gardening businesses have hit rocky ground but Waterers expects to increase turnover from £4.8m to £6m in the year to July . |
| 7 | Consumption in period t + 5 will therefore be unchanged : But investment will fall again : Since investment falls and consumption stays the same , income in period t + 5 will be lower than in period t + 4 : So far in the analysis , the single increase in autonomous investment of £10 has caused income to rise from £1,000 to £1,025 in the first four time periods and then to start to fall in the fifth . |
| 8 | In the fruitfly Drosophila for example , the second male fertilizes from 83% to 99% of the eggs . |
| 9 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 10 | Closely allied to foxgloves they carry their spikes of tubular flowers for many weeks as the individual blooms open in succession from base to tip of the spikes . |
| 11 | ANZ McCaughan 's Alastair Irvine expects dramatic profit progress from £1.8m to £8.4m in the year just ended and then to £12m this year . |
| 12 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 13 | A current travelling retrospective which opened in her home town gallery and was organised by the gallery 's chief curator , Michael Aupling , includes 80 works on paper and canvas , documenting the artist 's process from sketch to oils over the past 18 years ( 1974–1992 ) . |
| 14 | Among the many projects for which the firm was responsible during Fox 's later years were the Liverpool Overhead Railway ( the first electric elevated city railway in the world ) , the extension from Rugby to London of the Great Central Railway , including its Marylebone terminal , the Great Northern and City tube ( with large tunnels to accommodate standard rolling stock ) , and the ‘ Hampstead tube ’ linking Charing Cross with Golders Green and Highgate ; and , abroad , much of the Cape Government Railways in South Africa , the whole Rhodesia Railways system , including the 500-feet span Victoria Falls arch bridge over the Zambesi river , the Benguela Railway in Angola , and several railways and other works in South America . |
| 15 | Around 230 tons of " highly toxic chemicals " have been illegally exported from Germany to Ukraine since the beginning of this year and the German authorities have been aware of the transports , Greenpeace has claimed . |
| 16 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 17 | Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage . |
| 18 | The eroded material is usually moved away by the action of longshore drift ( see below ) , which , in England , moves material mainly from north to south on the east coast and from west to east on the south coast . |
| 19 | It was always in motion , in waves and pulses , moving from west to east in the atmosphere . |
| 20 | He may have been on the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier , 1529–30 . |
| 21 | Agreement between team and research diagnoses ranged from 90% to 99% for the specific psychiatric disorders studied . |
| 22 | He then went on to reject a submission that the third condition was only effective to except a Hong Kong profits taxpayer from liability to tax on the profits of an independent business carried on by him overseas . |
| 23 | Lij Yasu 's father was the ruler of Wollo , Ras Mikael , who had been converted from Islam to Christianity during the reign of the Emperor John , and had later married Menelik 's elder daughter , Shoaragad . |
| 24 | Some range from hilltop to hilltop in the manner of Watkins 's ‘ fairy chain ’ image . |
| 25 | The organism can be transmitted from fowl to fowl in the egg of Heterakis and in earthworms containing hatched larvae of the worm . |
| 26 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 27 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 28 | Losses before tax rose from £47.9m to £146.4m in the year to 30 September 1992 at National Home Loans . |
| 29 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 30 | On 12 October 1991 BR ran a Railtour from Hereford to Carlisle via the Settle and Carlisle line . |