Example sentences of "[noun] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 2 | A similar policy for mentally ill people moved patients at record speed from asylum to cardboard box , tent , and lions ' cage . |
| 3 | One of the great achievements of the Roman Empire was the construction of their roads by which means their Legions moved with comparative speed from place to place . |
| 4 | As new evidence came to light the risks from exposure to radiation appeared worse and worse . |
| 5 | They must , of course , take calculated risks from time to time to achieve objectives which they perceive to be right but not universally popular . |
| 6 | The Lord has won a victory over my feelings in this area although there are still skirmishes from time to time ! |
| 7 | The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability . |
| 8 | In silent grief from hill to hill . |
| 9 | Drugged you drag grief from room to room and weep , |
| 10 | The spectacular charge of the Light Blue Brigade from stakeboat to finish line con founded the bookies and the Tideway pundits who gave them no chance against Barcelona gold medallist Matthew Pinsent and his crew . |
| 11 | Natural resources and environment : water , soil , possibly vegetation , climate ( reflected in the growing season with hot-cold , wet-dry combinations from year to year ) . |
| 12 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 13 | Use hand-over-hand stroking movements on legs from ankle to thigh . |
| 14 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
| 15 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 16 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 17 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 18 | Closely allied to foxgloves they carry their spikes of tubular flowers for many weeks as the individual blooms open in succession from base to tip of the spikes . |
| 19 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 20 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 21 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 22 | ‘ Are ye leaving so soon , Master English Clerk ? ’ she asked suggestively , her eyes boldly studying Corbett from head to toe . |
| 23 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 24 | From a huge bay window in the lounge will be an uninterrupted , breathtaking panoramic view of the sea and coast from west to east . |
| 25 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 26 | Homeworkers , who engaged in a wide variety of trades from matchbox-making to furpulling , did indeed suffer disproportionately from disease , particularly tuberculosis , and regulation was instigated not merely for the protection of the workers but also for the sake of the whole community . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year . |
| 28 | However , it makes sense to keep the variations of lighting within reasonable bounds from shot to shot by shooting your scenes in groups which are consistently lit . |
| 29 | It is not a command from God to advance on all fronts , but is a strategic word identifying and emphasising his order of priorities . |
| 30 | Nor in my view will it look much like Kenneth Baker 's essentially hierarchical or military vision of a chain of command from centre to periphery , because curricula are not ultimately manageable in that way . |