Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We describe pitch in terms of high and low , and some people find it difficult to relate what they hear in someone 's voice to a scale ranging from low to high . |
| 2 | Using such measures Lehmbruch is able to place Austria high on a scale ranging from strong to weak corporatism , because it ranks very high on all relevant dimensions . |
| 3 | When admiring a piece of pottery it is sometime difficult to think of the individuals involved in its manufacture — not the proprietors or owners of the firm , but the workforce ; the potters , the kilnmen who stacked , fired and controlled the kilns , the printers , the decorators and the numerous other people who performed their often strenuous tasks in conditions ranging from good to awful . |
| 4 | On the western seaboard of Lewis and Harris from Great Bernera to South Harris , there are extensive areas of very rocky land comprising dissected lowlands and hills with rock morphology ranging from crenellated to pavement . |
| 5 | Banks borrow and lend wholesale funds amongst themselves , dealing through money brokers , for periods ranging from overnight to five years . |
| 6 | All of these specific special needs can be seen on a continuum ranging from mild to severe , or from temporary and transient to long-standing or permanent . |
| 7 | They discussed the pros and cons of S & M , which was felt to be on a sliding scale ranging from harmless to violent . |
| 8 | Peter Gretener has emphasised the need to distinguish between continuous and discontinuous processes and I would like to adapt his list of examples as follows , ranging from biological to astronomical processes : |
| 9 | This index distinguishes five different levels of organic brain syndrome ranging from severe to subclinical . |
| 10 | Two-thirds of schools had apparatus ranging from adequate to generous . |
| 11 | Typically the survey asks if respondents have had contact with family/friends/neighbours on a scale ranging from daily to never . |
| 12 | The implicit but unstated assumption is that the various forms of provision , ranging from residential to long-stay geriatric care , are entirely substitutable . |
| 13 | Ensure , too , that you always have a selection of spare needles ranging from fine to heavy ( 70–100 ) . |
| 14 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 15 | In South Harris a complex of igneous rocks , ranging from basic to acid types , has been intruded into the metasediments there . |
| 16 | What do you feel about going from employed to er commission only self employed ? |
| 17 | When 4095 such charge/discharge cycles have been counted the two outputs , pin 2 and pin 3 , change state — pin 2 going from low to high and pin 3 from high to low . |
| 18 | The international players reason that the pressures of going from international to big club game to international are almost unbearable . |
| 19 | Cough from the slightest breathing of cold air , like Phosphorus and Spongia , from going from warm to cold . |
| 20 | I step back , then turn and run , the clinging wetness round my thighs going from warm to cold as I race beneath the snow-shrouded trees towards the house . |
| 21 | That they are going from bad to worse . |
| 22 | ‘ The four of us share a two-bedroom , fourth-floor flat and things are going from bad to worse . |
| 23 | BBC really are going from bad to worse . |
| 24 | Things were going from bad to worse . |
| 25 | Things are going from bad to worse . |
| 26 | He noticed as we 'd all noticed that in in respect of law and order that things were really going from bad to worse , were deteriorating . |
| 27 | I 'm very disillusioned with the whole thing now and I just think that things are going from bad to worse . |
| 28 | Satisfactory performance in this course work will be a condition of up-grading from probationary to full research status at the end of the first year of study . |
| 29 | as we walked , sunshine seeped through the canopy of branches , bathing the forest in clear pools of light , and women raking in the distance would be suddenly spotlit , their pine-needles turning from tawny to amber . |
| 30 | Then the letter unbuckles , turning from black to even white in the heat and delivering itself into our outstretched hand . |