Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Loosen up facial muscles by stretching your whole face and trying to move the muscles up and down and from side to side .
2 Now nation and people were linked in a nationalism constructed from a common inheritance rather than from opposition to potentially antagonistic nationalisms ( ibid. p 169 ) .
3 Likewise , if past convention has made a particular layout familiar ( such as time increasing downwards or from left to right ) , a change should be considered only if a clear advantage is to be gained .
4 And I suspect also that from time to time the director feels that he has to placate the more hard-nosed and less imaginative of his many paymasters by producing something that could be regarded as promoting trade .
5 As a member of the cabinet which had to cope with the Irish famine , Clanricarde pressed hard for remedial measures , pointing out that from time to time ‘ an adherence to sound principle will cause an immediate sacrifice ’ .
6 jean had her arm round Donald 's waist now and from time to time she skipped , roused by the fighting spirits of the menfolk .
7 All its parts work fundamentally as one ’ ( 1977 , p. 47 ) , even if from time to time its various parts seem to be moving in different directions .
8 The urbane Philip Ziegler , writing in the Daily Telegraph , took something like a middle course : ‘ Charmley is too sensible to push his arguments to indefensible lengths ( even if from time to time his attacks on Martin Gilbert 's biography and editing of Churchill 's papers seem unduly waspish ) . ’
9 ‘ I just play for relaxation nowadays , but I know two of the guys who play here regularly and from time to time they invite me to join them . ’
10 The diet and therefore the isotopic composition analyses vary from region to region as well as from country to country , and this has important implications for policing the current ivory trade bans .
11 Levels of employment and unemployment and the easy or difficulty with which people find jobs can vary a great deal from place to place as well as from year to year , and so our tasks are always changing and developing — something you will notice and should n't be surprised by .
12 However , the contribution of each property to fitness must vary dramatically from year to year as well as from place to place within the field .
13 She was enclosed in grey , all round and from floor to ceiling .
14 The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks .
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