Example sentences of "from [noun sg] to [noun sg] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional models consist of the transfer of information from one person to another , for example , from user to designer and from manager to designer . |
| 2 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 3 | The fighting there is from building to building and at night , often hand-to-hand with knives . |
| 4 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 5 | Desks in lines , streamed classes , sets of identical textbooks through which children move from term to term and from year to year all serve to confirm a particular belief . |
| 6 | Pages are written closely and amorphously from side to side and from top to bottom . |
| 7 | Judicial views on this matter are likely to vary from judge to judge and from time to time : some judges favour more rather than less judicial review ; others less rather than more . |
| 8 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 9 | Fees vary from degree to degree and from subject to subject . |
| 10 | On this basis it will be possible to describe changes in employment patterns , and in the relative importance of different ‘ pathways from work to non-work and of different forms of non-working ( eg , unemployment , disability , retirement ) , according to such factors as previous industry , social class , sex , marital status , health and closeness to ‘ normal ’ retirement age . |
| 11 | Whether you want to change your personality from night to day , from work to play or from mother to managing director , the way you wear your hair speaks more clearly than your clothes do . |
| 12 | Variations obviously occur from village to village and from area to area , so that no claim is made that what follows in this chapter applies to each and every village in England . |
| 13 | Two simple planes connect the sunken eye socket to the forehead , and a small disk extends below from cheekbone to the inside corner of the eye , while the jaw , the nose and the section from nose to mouth and from mouth to chin are each clearly defined . |
| 14 | Perhaps incest is even more closely a matter of social norms than paedophilia ; its proscription or permissibility has been and is highly variable from period to period and in different sub-cultures within our own country , let alone others . |
| 15 | In less extreme circumstances others were expressing concern that the holding of information and its transmission from teacher to teacher and from school to school might unfairly label and prejudice a child . |
| 16 | In default of a totally homogenised society , it is impossible to imagine a situation where there will not be variation from school to school , from teacher to teacher and from children to children . |
| 17 | What is appropriate will , naturally , vary from job to job and from country to country . |
| 18 | Individual risks vary greatly from job to job and from industry to industry . |
| 19 | In Chapter 7 we discuss how , once initiated , incidence spreads from township to township and via personal relationships within the illicit economy . |
| 20 | This period coincided with various socioeconomic advances which could also be usefully recorded , such as the change from horsepower to mechanisation and from an all-male workforce to a female civilian one . |
| 21 | This period coincided with various socioeconomic advances which could also be usefully recorded , such as the change from horsepower to mechanisation and from an all-male workforce to a female civilian one . |
| 22 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 23 | The number of youngsters sniffing varies from place to place and at different times . |
| 24 | The history consisted of genealogies ( which were different in their emphases and resonances from place to place and from person to person ) and of anecdotes , poems , stories , all of which were similarly variable . |
| 25 | What this meant varied greatly from place to place and from time to time ; nor can we make any satisfactory generalizations about the nature of medieval law . |
| 26 | ‘ Crimes ’ varied from place to place and from time-period to time-period ; they reflected the interests , moral concerns and ideological positions of those who were in the power positions that defined and enforced them . |
| 27 | The rules and institutions which regulated medieval agriculture and ordered rural society differed in almost every particular from place to place and from generation to generation . |
| 28 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 29 | In earlier times the quality of the information provided by a register varies from place to place and from incumbent to incumbent . |
| 30 | " Day " can mean either a calendar day or a period of 24 hours , according to context , and the meaning of " working day " will depend on the custom of the particular trade — and may vary from place to place and from time to time . |