Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Secretary has announced changes to place more responsibility for policing from headquarters to local stations , though there has been no announcement about the possible amalgamation of forces . |
| 2 | Rotating through 180 degrees would produce a pattern for knitting from top to bottom and rotating through 45 degrees would produce a pattern for a diagonal or bias knit . |
| 3 | It enables individuals to overcome some of the accessibility/mobility problems outlined above ; they can come and go largely as they please , use the services they wish and enjoy a wide range of social , business and leisure contacts , conditioned only by the time that is available for driving from place to place and the running costs of the vehicle . |
| 4 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 5 | ‘ One morning , shortly after returning from Africa to my home in rural Hampshire , I came across a group of deer standing in a field . |
| 6 | Lauda added nine more points after leading from start to finish at Monaco while Hunt was again out of the scoring , and seemingly out of the championship . |
| 7 | A COUPLE have been murdered after emigrating from Britain to Jamaica with the dream of starting a new life . |
| 8 | I move back from the river , walk the length of the glide and then , after swapping from leger to float tackle on my 13ft match rod , insert myself between two slender willows at the head of the run . |
| 9 | After falling from 18% to 7.6% of world trade in manufactured goods between 1960 and 1985 , they picked up to 8.7% by 1991 . |
| 10 | The whole thing kicked off with a state of the art video which introduced the T9000 as the ‘ next link in the chain for ranging from supercomputers to database managers , to switching and telecommunications systems , management systems for production lines and car engines . |
| 11 | It is well worth pausing from time to time to clarify what problem each person thinks he or she is solving . |
| 12 | The maximum fine for water pollution was raised from £2,000 to £20,000 , and that of littering from £400 to £1,000 . |
| 13 | The first of these two methods is analogous to the real-world process of walking from London to Brighton and counting the steps ; the second is not . |
| 14 | also newcastle fans have two HUGE flags which they transport around the ground , everyone lifting the flag around — i think it 's the only english club iv'e seen doing that — you see this kind of flagging from time to time around europe ( even up here in Trondheim ) |
| 15 | Meanwhile for Francesca , like her mother , it 's a case of living from day to day , in the hope medical science may eventually come up with an answer . |
| 16 | The children persisted with the same piece of writing from week to week , taking up from where they had left off usually without a murmur . |
| 17 | It was not the lead , but the character was in every episode , and had the advantage of ageing from week to week . |
| 18 | Second , there was considerable background noise imposed by the tinfoil : in practice , by the way it was held in place , and its habit of crinkling from time to time . |
| 19 | The probability of going from A to B is found by adding up the waves for all the paths . |
| 20 | I do not believe there is another contractor capable of going from Greenfield to completion in this way , across the range of services , and on this scale . |
| 21 | The research process highlighted the difficulty of going from research to recommendations , and the effect of changing health advice on both health professionals providing advice and on mothers receiving it . |
| 22 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |
| 23 | To her it was just a means of getting from A to B , but she welcomed its invention because it lessened cruelty to horses . |
| 24 | The theorists ' problems stem from the many different ways quarks have of getting from A to B. On the way , they can emit or absorb any number of gluons ( particles which carry the strong nuclear force ) , so the possibilities are endless . |
| 25 | There are many products which will help take the hassle out of getting from A to B |
| 26 | It 's a way of getting from A to B in winter — and autumn and spring , too — in the far North where the snow lasts from November to late April/May . |
| 27 | There are various ways about that as there are with many road schemes er where there are structure plan policies for a particular scheme and there are arrows on key diagrams , there are many ways of getting from A to B er they are not er in terms of outer and inner , they are going from the same A to B. They they start and finish at the same locations , it is just a different way of getting from A to B. Which quite properly as I understand it would be a matter for debate er either at the local plan or if a planning application is made er earlier than that er then at a at a planning enquiry into the specific road proposal . |
| 28 | There are various ways about that as there are with many road schemes er where there are structure plan policies for a particular scheme and there are arrows on key diagrams , there are many ways of getting from A to B er they are not er in terms of outer and inner , they are going from the same A to B. They they start and finish at the same locations , it is just a different way of getting from A to B. Which quite properly as I understand it would be a matter for debate er either at the local plan or if a planning application is made er earlier than that er then at a at a planning enquiry into the specific road proposal . |
| 29 | But nevertheless , you may have different ways of getting from A to B but those different routes may in actual fact give a different set of benefits or perform different functions or not necessarily meet all the needs as you 're setting out to meet . |
| 30 | There was absolutely no way of getting from Wandsworth to Wanley except by car , or none that did not involve at least four methods of public transport . |