Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aid officials from the United Kingdom , returning from visits to Eritrea and Tigre on April 3 , reported that food supplies were reaching people in the region , mostly via the cross-border route from Sudan , and that there was no mass starvation , but warned that the situation could worsen when existing food aid pledges ran out after May . |
| 2 | In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s . |
| 3 | Some routes were planned , climbing from valleys to moorland pastures and shielings for summer grazing . |
| 4 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 5 | Some 70,000 such licenses have been granted to companies and individuals ranging from farmers to brewers . |
| 6 | This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment . |
| 7 | This international course will emphasise organisation of communication and non-formal education programmes that are designed for various sectors of society ranging from policy-makers to villagers . |
| 8 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 9 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 10 | Slug in ash ( above ) and tortoise in burr elm ( right ) Making no bones about methods or means , David is a proud user of mechanical aids , ranging from lathes to the Woodcarver , from drum sanders to a Black & Decker Powerfile . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke said last night that the pay of five million workers , ranging from teachers to nurses and civil servants , would be curbed for the second year in a row . |
| 12 | In this species there is no clear distinction between primary visual cortex and the secondary visual areas that are present in most other species , ranging from rats to monkeys , and there is almost total overlap between the motor cortex , defined in terms of the area of cortex from which movements can be evoked by electrical stimulation , and the somatosensory cortex , defined in terms of the area from which electrical activity can be evoked by stimulation of the body surface ( Kaas 1982 ) . |
| 13 | A pertinent statistical table produced by Nykrog shows how clerks are always successful in the eternal triangle of sexual competition , pitted against husbands ranging from knights to peasants . |
| 14 | From a control panel in the living room , a householder would supervise any number of appliances , ranging from heaters to door locks . |
| 15 | Produce a series of recruitment aids , ranging from videos to leaflets . |
| 16 | But sport is fighting an uphill battle against the recession and competing leisure time activities ranging from videos to computers and home shopping , the survey adds . |
| 17 | Having interviewed my fair share of criminals and oddballs , ranging from murderers to men with silver foil round their heads claiming protection from the moon 's beams , I thought I had a well-developed instinct for sensing a nutter when I met one . |
| 18 | It is much less easy when one has to explain the simultaneous extinction of several unrelated groups , ranging from ammonites to pterodactyls , living in different habitats at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 19 | Definitive reference , ranging from encyclopedias to special interests . |
| 20 | The tanners ' chief customers were the shoemakers , but of course quite a variety of goods , ranging from bottles to garments and from saddles to straps , were made out of leather . |
| 21 | The houses , whose front doors opened directly on the street , were a mixed bag , ranging from cottages to substantial dwellings of some distinction , originally built for Packet skippers . |
| 22 | But it will also contain high levels of nitrates ; chlorine and/or chloramine ; and a host of other nasties ranging from metals to pesticides . |
| 23 | An intelligentsia was one of the byproducts , ranging from priests to teachers , journalists and writers . |
| 24 | A three-day trade mission of 16 US semiconductor companies arranged by the US Department of Commerce opened in Tokyo yesterday : 60 representatives from the firms , ranging from engineers to chief executives , will hold 150 face-to-face meetings with 27 Japanese chip users to explore new business opportunities . |
| 25 | Around 150 Italian works of art will be shown by around forty dealers and galleries , ranging from antiquities to nineteenth-century paintings , about with prices from £500 to over £1 million . |
| 26 | 9 SUPER Mario 's image appears on a string of Nintendo merchandise ranging from cakes to wallpaper . |
| 27 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 28 | At the outbreak of war in 1914 , Strahan supervised the preparation of a set of vital military geological maps of Belgium and other war zones ; and with the cessation of foreign sources of supply an exhaustive inventory of native sources of supply of strategic minerals ( ranging from barytes to sand ) was needed . |
| 29 | She does not provide dinner , but there are thirteen eating places within two miles , ranging from pubs to classy restaurants . |
| 30 | Secondly , on the face of it , the middle class contains an extremely diverse group of workers ranging from secretaries to accountants , shop-assistants to managers , shopkeepers to social workers . |