Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 2 | It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality . |
| 3 | These were the deep furrows etched in the sand to help the Nairn transport , but I rather think more so to help the pilots of the period to find their way across the route from Rutbah Wells to Damascus , or indeed from Baghdad to Rutbah Wells . |
| 4 | So that mostly from A to Z . |
| 5 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |
| 6 | Moreover , they fluctuate in their supposed order of priority , not merely from Government to Government , nor even from year to year , but almost from day to day at the whim of public and parliamentary opinion . |
| 7 | These last are not the same among all social groups in Britain , nor even from area to area . |
| 8 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 9 | Letters went to and fro from Wawne to Rome with no result , until eventually the Pope sent an indignant letter ordering the Wawne clergy to stop the practice or risk punishment . |
| 10 | We were broke , so I accepted , and Dana took me on his bike to and fro from Bath to Corsham throughout the next six weeks . |
| 11 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 12 | With local , with in-house teams it means that we are protected from that ever happening , and I hope that our in-house teams will continue to go on and on from strength to strength , valuable resource to the county council . |
| 13 | From the producers ' point of view , it is the single most sought after ‘ grape variety ’ in the world , and right from Britain to Chile and New Zealand ( and even India ! ) more and more vineyards are being planted with it in preference to any other . |
| 14 | The relevant factors will vary from company to company , from SBU to SBU , and perhaps from investment to investment , so they must be determined by reference to specifically relevant competitive-strengths criteria . |
| 15 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 16 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 17 | Knead comfortably up and down from side to side , then knead the sides of the waist . |
| 18 | Pages are written closely and amorphously from side to side and from top to bottom . |
| 19 | Only very occasionally is it possible to read between the lines , as in one instance at South Luffenham , where Henry Bonytt , as the sole tenant of freeholder Edward Sapcote , presumably held a lease ; he also had 10s. a year in land and a subtenant called William Clark , who must mutatis mutandis have held from him by lease , if not from year to year . |
| 20 | Managing quality in this example is based on the assumption that long-term and medium-term planning of all subjects is important , that the analysis and modification of the use of time have to be repeated from year to year ( if not from term to term ) and that targets and statements of attainment should feature in schools ' schemes of work " and provide a valuable focus for the planning and transaction of classwork by individual teachers " ( HMI 1990:14 ) . |
| 21 | from that material , and thus from liability to search , production , or seizure , there are excluded ‘ items subject to legal privilege ’ which are defined in section 10(1) . |
| 22 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
| 23 | Five boards were sawn off either side and once from end to end , and when these ten , destined for side panelling , were cut , the log was turned , and thirty boards of narrower width sawn for end panels , thus utilising all the wood possible . ’ |
| 24 | Fairham asked , perplexed , his gaze shifting back and forth from Nicholson to Porter . |
| 25 | Thus people will readily switch back and forth from money to other assets . |
| 26 | WHEN she is n't flying back and forth from England to Australia , Sarah Key helps the rich and famous to get into shape . |
| 27 | Donna frowned and put her foot down , coaxing more speed from the Volvo , her eyes flicking back and forth from windscreen to rear-view mirror . |
| 28 | The scientist shuffled uneasily , looking back and forth from Cardiff to Rohmer . |
| 29 | The camera tracks back and forth from bedroom to kitchen as the servants go about their chores . |
| 30 | Three basic points are fixed on a plaster model of the original and on the marble block , and the frame transferred back and forth from model to block , each point being marked by drilling a hole to the required depth . |