Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then head from side to side , muttering , moaning . |
| 2 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |
| 3 | To what extent will business shift from banking to other types of lending ? |
| 4 | Only then can the emphasis switch from confrontation to co-operation , the attitude shift from apathy to enthusiasm . |
| 5 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 6 | SPANNING four continents and 70 countries , it is hardly surprising that the causes , and hence solutions to tropical forest destruction shift from region to region . |
| 7 | Among the threats to temperate forests identified by the report are logging of native forests , the treatment of trees as crops in a market shift from timber to pulp and paper production , air and water pollution , cutting for firewood , and forest fires . |
| 8 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 9 | In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time . |
| 10 | Many animals leap from bough to bough , and sometimes fall to the ground . |
| 11 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 12 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 13 | There they introduced escrima to eager young American martial artists and the last five years have seen escrima and kali grow from strength to strength . |
| 14 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 15 | The individual close-ups should be shot from the same side of a line connecting the two characters so that the eyelines match from shot to shot in the way they do in the master two-shot . |
| 16 | Researchers have discovered that periods of dreaming during sleep are related to times of rapid-eye movement ( REM ) during which the eyes flick from side to side under the eyelids . |
| 17 | Scottish Borders Walk from Traquair to Yair along an ancient drove road |
| 18 | Pedestrian precincts enable the customer to shop in safety , and walk from shop to shop to compare prices ; they are particularly helpful for parents with small children ( possibly in prams or pushchairs ) and the disabled . |
| 19 | It is quite amazing how much the human eye actually misses when we walk from place to place . |
| 20 | The demands arise from the particular tasks that lexicographers undertake from time to time , and are predictable only in overall terms . |
| 21 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 22 | Support from grandparent' to grandchild is rather more straightforward , although again rather little evidence exists . |
| 23 | These range from archivist to VDU ( visual display unit , or computer screen ) operator . |
| 24 | The stories range from beginner to intermediate level ; they are designed to present basic language structures and to teach conversational American English . |
| 25 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 26 | They range from Badminton to Babies , Food to Flying , Politics to Problems , Stress to Staff and a lot more crammed in . |
| 27 | The recreational facilities range from horse-riding to para-sailing , while inland from the Club the countryside is criss-crossed with tracks for walking where you can discover rural villages , lone mosques and secret lakes among the low hills . |
| 28 | The colours range from brown to black and pink salmon-beige and alternate in large bands running from top to bottom . |
| 29 | With that behind them , they hardly seem likely candidates for the pages of Paradise , but then Margaret and Lucy boast eclectic tastes which range from Abba to NWA , from everything released by Creation to Sly Stone . |
| 30 | These range from homework to hockey and cricket to climbing . |