Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a similar way , a Roman soldier writing from Palestine to his parents in about 4 BC might well have written : ‘ This is an out-of-the-way dump . |
| 2 | the degree of tones in a photograph ranging from highlight to shadow . |
| 3 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 4 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 5 | Richards , who has just completed his first year as the Welsh Rugby Union development officer for Mid-Wales , wants to see the representative side going from strength to strength . |
| 6 | Car going from Woodcape to Copse who |
| 7 | ‘ Our guiding element could be the Durutti 's Brigade moving from village to village , liquidating the bourgeois elements and leaving the workers to see to their own organization . ’ |
| 8 | At present , a multinational company can not run just one fund for all its staff ; an employee moving from Britain to Spain has to join a different fund . |
| 9 | The Diesel Cashback Programme running from April to August 1993 is expected to boost this growing share still further , offering Clio Diesel buyers a cheque equivalent to the fuel costs of more than 10,000 miles motoring . |
| 10 | SAF 's bulk manufacturing facilities are designed for batch processing from multi-kilo to multi-tonne quantities . |
| 11 | The exhibitions in question , each receiving a challenge grant ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 , are located in Long Beach ( California ) , Atlanta , Houston , Columbus ( Ohio ) , New York , Chicago , Washington D.C. , Los Angeles and Boston . |
| 12 | ‘ Widow Or Bust ’ is generally good crack and I found myself giving way to a bit of foot tapping from time to time . |
| 13 | The first two processes to be looked at are Flask Handling from pond to railhead , and the training process . |
| 14 | Now he takes charge of a division with turnover approaching £3 billion and a product portfolio ranging from toothpaste to Calvin Klein perfumes . |
| 15 | Platydoras costatus is a widespread doradid ranging from Peru to Brazil . |
| 16 | But , claimed the prosecution , Inca Gemstones was a cover for a swindle switching from Bombay to Bangkok , Geneva , London and South America before the big sting , in New York . |
| 17 | Flying to Paris within two weeks of gaining her pilot 's licence led to Betty taking part in record breaking flights , one of which was as co-pilot to F/O A E Clouston in DH.88 Comet G–ACSS flying from Croydon to the Cape , breaking Amy Johnson 's outbound record along with five other records in the overall flight . |
| 18 | If you 're playing against the computer you 'll play the first half kicking from left to right , changing ends at half time . |
| 19 | I watched his silhouette moving from seat to seat , watching the others , shuffling and sidling closer , sometimes stopping as if uncertain , but then moving again until he was next to someone . |
| 20 | Mainland ice flowing from east to west at the time of the glacial maximum was diverted northwards around Harris , whereas the smaller , isolated hills on North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist provided little restriction to the regional movements . |
| 21 | Platydoras costatus is a widespread doradid originating from Peru to Brazil . |
| 22 | He describes immense tracts of pale reed and dark-green alder stretching from Cambridge to Peterborough , from King 's Lynn to the foot of the Lincolnshire wolds , where : |
| 23 | Already characterized by the victory of democracy over authoritarianism in Latin America , this new age would , he said , be bolstered by a new economic partnership linking both hemispheres in a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to Cape Horn , a concept expounded in the US Enterprise for the Americas Initiative launched by Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 24 | Chaucer 's tale is set in the north-east of France , the true home of the French fabliaux , its geographical range stretching from Paris to Bruges . |
| 25 | He remained nearly half an hour turning from side to side as though watching some great action which extended over the whole visible forest . |
| 26 | The probability of the particle traveling from A to B is given by adding up the numbers associated with all the paths that take the particle from A to B. For most paths , the number associated with the path will nearly cancel out the numbers from paths that are close by . |
| 27 | A COUNCIL tax ranging from £297 to £900 is set to be fixed for householders in Fife . |
| 28 | Only in capital goods and chemicals was there a growing balance — the combined surplus rising from $5 to $11 billion between 1959 and 1969 . |
| 29 | ‘ In 1981 profits were £14.2 million , and in 1990 £74.7 million , with earnings per share in the same period rising from 1.85p to 12.22p . |
| 30 | Petrol will increase by around 11p a gallon with annual road tax rising from £110 to £130 . |