Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 2 | A similar policy for mentally ill people moved patients at record speed from asylum to cardboard box , tent , and lions ' cage . |
| 3 | One of the great achievements of the Roman Empire was the construction of their roads by which means their Legions moved with comparative speed from place to place . |
| 4 | In silent grief from hill to hill . |
| 5 | Drugged you drag grief from room to room and weep , |
| 6 | The spectacular charge of the Light Blue Brigade from stakeboat to finish line con founded the bookies and the Tideway pundits who gave them no chance against Barcelona gold medallist Matthew Pinsent and his crew . |
| 7 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 8 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 9 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 10 | Closely allied to foxgloves they carry their spikes of tubular flowers for many weeks as the individual blooms open in succession from base to tip of the spikes . |
| 11 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 12 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 13 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 14 | From a huge bay window in the lounge will be an uninterrupted , breathtaking panoramic view of the sea and coast from west to east . |
| 15 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 16 | It is not a command from God to advance on all fronts , but is a strategic word identifying and emphasising his order of priorities . |
| 17 | Nor in my view will it look much like Kenneth Baker 's essentially hierarchical or military vision of a chain of command from centre to periphery , because curricula are not ultimately manageable in that way . |
| 18 | As President of Haringey AC , Ron Pickering showed his love of and feel for grass roots athletics by building the club from obscurity to greatness , partly through encouraging young black athletes to realise their potential . |
| 19 | They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’ |
| 20 | A rateable value is intended to represent a rent from year to year at a specific date on terms laid down by regulations . |
| 21 | There are not two |
| 22 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
| 23 | The workers operate in pairs , following a car from station to station and carrying out the entire work assignment belonging to their team . |
| 24 | Clean out the feeding compartment from time to time . |
| 25 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 26 | It was plain from the summing-up and the interview notes that the reason for the change of mind from denial to admission was the wish to prevent members of his family being interviewed , charged with or suspected of a crime which he was admitting . |
| 27 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
| 28 | Trembling with shock , she leaned against a sundial and re-ran the disastrous interview in her mind from start to finish . |
| 29 | All these uneasy feelings that were at the back of her mind from time to time . |
| 30 | Installation of the handrail will increase the safety for Health Physics staff carrying out surveys and for maintenance staff who have to work on the roof from time to time . |