Example sentences of "range from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Eighteen schools are participating in the three performances , and invention from the six gathered in St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Tuesday ranged from dialogue with the odd splash of singing and recorder-music to fully composed masques using all available resources .
2 Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’
3 In the Fifties the things you bought to throw away ranged from Kleenex to baking tins , from razors with only one blade ( supplied by vending machine ) to watches not worth repairing .
4 The WTA matched the provision of its main competitors while undercutting their prices : holidays ranged from winter sports , world cruises ( three months , 165 guineas by freighter from Marseilles ) , tours of Lapland and biblical sites in Egypt , to courses on political theory at the international college in Elsinore and the Second Workers ' Olympiad held in Vienna in 1931 .
5 Jobs ranged from lockgate making to boat building and repairs to company housing .
6 The six naughtiest dogs in the North-East ranged from Bracken the cairn , who insisted on leaping up at every visitor , to Jessica the fearsome-looking rottweiler .
7 Thus , the wasp-nematode relationships ranged from commensal to clearly parasitic , in accord with their different transmission routes .
8 Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol .
9 They ranged from tuck stitch and Fair Isle on the single bed through plain stocking stitch , three colours in a row jacquard and Fair Isle using chenille to soft felted wool .
10 Her methods of acquisition ranged from chance discoveries and bargain purchases in shops to point-blank admiration of other people 's possessions , which found some owners parting with their treasures as gifts , while others hid their bibelots when it was known that a visit from the Queen was imminent .
11 Powell 's scholarship ranged from work on the letters M–N , Q–R , Si–St , and U–V , for the Oxford English Dictionary , an edition of the translation by Nicholas Love of Bonaventura 's Meditationes Vitae Christi of c .1410 , studies of the Adventurer of John Hawkesworth [ q.v. ] , the bibliography of Samuel Johnson , Thomas Percy , Thomas Pennant , and Robert Southwell [ qq.v. ] , contributions to the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature , vol. ii ( 1940 ) and the Yale edition of Johnson ( 1963 ) , to a collaboration with John Munro on ‘ The London Shakespeare ’ ( 1958 ) .
12 Days in hospital ranged from mil to 52 ( median 20 days ) .
13 Donations to the raffle ranged from champagne to ‘ coasters ’ and together with the bar , helped to swell the profits from the evening to just over £400 , a sum which will be put to good use in helping us to continue to offer free pregnancy testing at our Lancaster office , together with confidential counselling for those with problem pregnancies and a helping hand for those experiencing difficulties following an abortion .
14 From 1907 Richardson devoted herself to a journalistic career , publishing periodical articles on topics which ranged from literature and politics to dentistry , as well as reviews , sketches , short stories , and poems .
15 The indictments at Reading Crown Court ranged from poaching to murder .
16 ‘ These ranged from lunch clubs to linking into existing networks , to setting up new ones , courses , a proposed conference , newsletter material and , most importantly , a database and exchange . ’
17 What the Bank got in return for its public lending services were paper assets which ranged from Exchequer and Navy bills to longer-term consolidated stocks .
18 Fines for these offences ranged from 2shilling : .
19 Six thousand visitors made their way to the Business Design Centre in Islington , London to see the exhibits , which ranged from tableware to floorcoverings , fashion to fabrics .
20 The conference was hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Poland and brought together some 20 people from Switzerland , Sweden , Germany and Poland whose fields of expertise ranged from parish work to professional journalism .
21 Subjects ranged from site matters to overall company strategy .
22 At Penarth alone the discarded items collected ranged from timber and aluminium cans to an old pushchair frame .
23 Men 's and women 's clothing on parade ranged from denim jeans and skirts to jersey dresses and chambray shirts , produced by top designers such as .
24 The mean overall early mortality was point nine percent and the inter-site variation for this ranged from zero to three point eight percent .
25 A mean of two percent of patients were returned to theatre across the northern region after T U R P and this ranged from zero to seven point five percent .
26 A mean of two point four percent of patients received a blood transfusion of greater than two units across the region and again this ranged from zero to six point six percent across the region .
27 There were twelve or fifteen finished pictures , all painted in the same manner as the one on the easel , patterns of glowing colour , but the subjects ranged from harbour and river scenes to landscapes with figures .
28 During one of his many civil disobedience campaigns , which ranged from non-payment of taxes to blocking border posts into the US , he led a hunger strike in protest at alleged vote rigging in the presidential race .
29 On an American basis , their credit ratings ranged from triple A to junk .
30 The directory offers over 500 entries ranging from art and craft suppliers , social stationery producers , magazine , music and video distributors to bibliographical services , shop security and carriers .
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