Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , North did testify that Poindexter had supervised the November 1985 shipment of US arms to Iran , an important statement given that four of the five felony charges against the defendant arose from statements to Congress that he had not learnt of the shipment until January 1986 . |
| 2 | He describes the neo-Darwinian approach taken by ethologists , concentrates on the behavioural ecology of Old World monkeys and apes in an attempt to extrapolate from animals to man , and examines the political objections to sociobiology . |
| 3 | His roles range from transvestites to teenage murderers , though some viewers complain that , whatever the film , he is always playing himself : massive , extravagant , scruffy-haired . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 6 | It would be a great shame to see shoppers travel from miles to the jewel in the crown of Darlington only to discover all the spaces in one of the town 's most central car parks had been snapped up and no more were available because of a council and a car park company going round in circles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Claiming to speak at Gorbachev 's behest , and using some of the most hardline language heard from a senior official in recent years , Kryuchkov lumped together groups ranging from radicals to nationalists to economic saboteurs in warning that anti-democratic forces were " rushing to seize power on a wave of anti-communism " . |
| 9 | But it will also contain high levels of nitrates ; chlorine and/or chloramine ; and a host of other nasties ranging from metals to pesticides . |
| 10 | Where once husbands and wives would ‘ go into mourning ’ for prescribed periods ranging from months to years , we like to see people pick themselves up and get on with it . |
| 11 | Pareto 's initial training was as a civil engineer ; he always seems to have regarded the natural sciences as superior to the social sciences , and he consistently attempted to apply models of equilibria derived from mechanics to society . |
| 12 | BASIC and some versions of FORTRAN contain built-in functions to convert from degrees to radians . |
| 13 | S. , who had already been charged with numerous offences arising from transactions to which the documents were germane , sought judicial review of the decision to serve the notice . |
| 14 | Our terrain changed from fields to bridleways and lanes as we approached Abbotsbury once again past the old swannery . |
| 15 | Many electrical accidents are caused by ignoring common safety rules ; for example , failing to replace old and faulty wiring ; by loading too few outlets or points with too many appliances ; and with the thoughtless placing of wires or cords leading from outlets to table or floor lamps . |
| 16 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 17 | Some 70,000 such licenses have been granted to companies and individuals ranging from farmers to brewers . |
| 18 | Much of the opposition to the ERA came from adherents to fundamentalist religious movements which take literally Biblical statements such as St Paul 's to the Ephesians — ‘ Wives , be subject to your husband as to the Lord ’ and ‘ As the church is subject to Christ , so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example . |
| 21 | Hall already claims to have customers downsizing from mainframes to client-server systems based on personal computers and Sparcsystems using SunSelect 's PC-NFS mechanism to migrate data . |
| 22 | Hall already claims to have customers downsizing from mainframes to client/server solutions based on personal computers and Suns using SunSelect 's PC-NFS mechanism to migrate data . |
| 23 | ‘ With rare exceptions , in working-class families aid from grandparents to their adult children was at best symbolic : a parcel of rabbits from the country , or a turkey sent for Christmas . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Clay was used to make a range of items ranging from loom-weights to the unique clay figure from Spong Hill ( Hills 1980a ) , but pottery vessels are the most frequent . |
| 26 | Diminishing environment returns from refinements to petrol-driven cars and uncertainty over which alternative power sources to pursue will complicate the plan , according to motor industry experts who last week testified before the clean air and nuclear regulation subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee . |
| 27 | A winning campaign strategy comes from answers to the questions : |
| 28 | Now they are scrapping over the same pound — and over the betting levy , which the Horserace Betting Levy Board redistributes from punters to those who run the racing business . |
| 29 | In this case the seller will probably require some statement of the efforts that the acquirer will take to collect the debts , provision for unallocated payments received from debtors to be attributed first to pre-completion obligations , and a right to take over the enforcement of debts which are not collected within a period of , say , six months . |
| 30 | Over 170 kits are available , with detection limits ranging from parts-per-billion to percent . |