Example sentences of "[verb] from [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As long as Drexel was there , ’ says Mr Sind , ‘ they always managed to find a way to struggle from debt-payment date to debt-payment date . ’ |
| 2 | One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats . |
| 3 | Cos I 've come from higher class to the low lower class . |
| 4 | Chairman Ken Bates acted after a run of 12 matches without a win that has seen the club eliminated from both major cup competitions and slump from title-chasing territory to mid-table . |
| 5 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 6 | Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications . |
| 7 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 8 | Young Warren Barton , the Wimbledon full-back , rose from non-League novice to England B status under Harford 's meticulous tutelage . |
| 9 | Our working interest production rose from 85,000 boepd to 184,000 boepd , chiefly as a result of the additional production from the Ultramar acquisition . |
| 10 | An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between . |
| 11 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 12 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 13 | Initial ‘ gut ’ reactions have varied from righteous indignation to cynical amusement , from vocal anger to silent embarrassment . |
| 14 | The degree of success varied from one head to another . |
| 15 | The speed at which an awareness of national fashions in architecture grew varied from one area to another . |
| 16 | As Tables 10–13 , below , show , most of the factors mentioned were common to all exhibitions , although the degree to which a particular factor contributed to an exhibition 's success varied from one exhibition to another . |
| 17 | Their controlled study showed that the social withdrawal and poverty of speech of chronic patients varied from one hospital to another according to the severity of ward restrictiveness , absence of personal belongings , and the length of time that patients were left to do nothing . |
| 18 | book , then it 's gon na get forgo , forgotten from one day to the next . |
| 19 | As they shift from one adult to another , teachers say it is the video which keeps them under control — a new binge of blood and guts each time they are shuttled past the rental shop . |
| 20 | Now to extrapolate from this example to a general argument that familiarity of a subject is a disadvantage would clearly be absurd . |
| 21 | Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year . |
| 22 | It is important to book as early as possible , since kennels fill up quickly at peak times , with customers booking from one year to the next . |
| 23 | People who leap from one relationship to another like someone crossing a stream on stepping-stones never grow up . |
| 24 | However , they avoid modulations and leap from one key to another freely and abruptly . |
| 25 | Turnover fell 20 p.c. to £16.9m and operating margins were squeezed from 11½ p.c. to 6½ p.c. as price competition intensified in the depressed construction sector . |
| 26 | The follow up period ranged from 1 month to 9 years with a mean of 21 months . |
| 27 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 28 | Transport is another area in which the discussion ranged from immediate action to changes only possible in the distant future . |
| 29 | His literary interests were remarkably wide and his expertise ranged from Anglo-Irish writing to Silver Age Latin epigrammatists ; but he published mainly on seventeenth-century comic or satirical dramatists , as his editions of Marston 's Malcontent and Vanbrugh 's Relapse testify . |
| 30 | The code of ethics ranged from strong drink to women of doubtful morals . |