Example sentences of "[noun pl] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As new evidence came to light the risks from exposure to radiation appeared worse and worse . |
| 2 | They must , of course , take calculated risks from time to time to achieve objectives which they perceive to be right but not universally popular . |
| 3 | The Lord has won a victory over my feelings in this area although there are still skirmishes from time to time ! |
| 4 | The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability . |
| 5 | Natural resources and environment : water , soil , possibly vegetation , climate ( reflected in the growing season with hot-cold , wet-dry combinations from year to year ) . |
| 6 | Use hand-over-hand stroking movements on legs from ankle to thigh . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the two lifestyles were incompatible ; the herdsman followed — and later drove — his animals from grazing to grazing and became a nomad , whilst the gatherer settled down to till the soil and defend his crops from predators . |
| 14 | She slumps , exhausted , moving only her eyes from side to side as she follows our next exchange . |
| 15 | When , however , it is exposed in the left field alone , the tendency to move the eyes at the beginning of the line ( presumably the dominant one ) would be in conflict with the tendency to move the eyes from left to right . |
| 16 | I walked partway along the trail , closing my eyes from time to time , imagining myself blind , unable to see . |
| 17 | A key response of governments in Europe to the perceived fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s was to adopt strategies which would restrain state expenditure , switch payment for utilities from taxation to consumer charging , and allow the private and voluntary sectors to play a larger role in the provision of transport , education and welfare services . |
| 18 | In the UK the process of privatization over the past nine years has moved utilities from public to private ownership , again under a regime of regulation ( Vickers and Yarrow , 1988 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not only hot , it cooks and sizzles from start to finish … |
| 20 | If the number of volunteers exceeded the number required , the company would be prepared to move drivers from quarry to quarry to make up the numbers . |
| 21 | Most had ignored him , some had ruffled and flown in their cages from side to side , clashing their great talons on the bars to intimidate him . |
| 22 | The Allied guns behind us sent a few shells rushing over our heads from time to time . |
| 23 | As they crawl , they wave their heads from side to side . |
| 24 | Norris ' ideas seem highly plausible and if this amazing and beautiful process is a correct understanding of part of the physical aspects of the dolphin 's 3-D sonar system , it also explains why they move their heads from side to side while they are emitting their characteristic echo-locating clicks — they are simply scanning their targets for angular , 3-D information . |
| 25 | The others were all shaking their heads from side to side . |
| 26 | Ten years ago it was supposed that when the database was up and running it would be relatively easy to find additional funds from outside to cover the running costs . |
| 27 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 28 | In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the development of administrative networks has intensified and tactics from counselling to cajoling have been employed , as the efficacy of the legal procedures and their sanctions in the fight against truancy increasingly comes to be doubted in some quarters . |
| 30 | An unfortunate accident in the solvent plant , a fire in the warehouse , a large-scale burglary , the loss of a key client , some bad publicity over a defective product , an unexpected but substantial price increase on raw materials can all present a crisis to a company , and most companies have such crises from time to time . |