Example sentences of "[prep] place to [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The copper content varied from place to place but rich solid chalcopyrite was found in places , particularly where veins came together or at junctions with cross-faults to form " bunches " . |
| 2 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 3 | When we do this , we find that a critic 's range of activities varies from place to place and period to period . |
| 4 | The problem then needs to be formulated in scientific terms and this requires the object to have some property which is unique to its origin , but which varies from place to place and is not significantly modified by manufacture ; the property must also be scientifically detectable . |
| 5 | The history consisted of genealogies ( which were different in their emphases and resonances from place to place and from person to person ) and of anecdotes , poems , stories , all of which were similarly variable . |
| 6 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 7 | Thus the activities of successive Conservative governments since 1979 may have made the re-emergence of local political activity more likely , but the form that this activity takes , how it varies from place to place and how it develops will be shaped by the interaction of local and national processes . |
| 8 | What this meant varied greatly from place to place and from time to time ; nor can we make any satisfactory generalizations about the nature of medieval law . |
| 9 | The pH balance of soil varies from place to place and among other factors depends on the bedrock beneath . |
| 10 | The number of youngsters sniffing varies from place to place and at different times . |
| 11 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 12 | It is impossible in these Coronation days to judge how long it will take to get from place to place and I asked the taxi-driver not to be too early . |
| 13 | The exact wording of these regulations varies from place to place and , having retired from Southampton , he was freer to do ‘ way out research ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Crimes ’ varied from place to place and from time-period to time-period ; they reflected the interests , moral concerns and ideological positions of those who were in the power positions that defined and enforced them . |
| 15 | He dashes about from place to place and function to function endeavouring to record all aspects of the local scene , trivial as well as tragic . |
| 16 | This can vary greatly in quality from place to place and also , in rivers , with time . |
| 17 | The rules and institutions which regulated medieval agriculture and ordered rural society differed in almost every particular from place to place and from generation to generation . |
| 18 | It enables individuals to overcome some of the accessibility/mobility problems outlined above ; they can come and go largely as they please , use the services they wish and enjoy a wide range of social , business and leisure contacts , conditioned only by the time that is available for driving from place to place and the running costs of the vehicle . |
| 19 | What accounts for the difference in adoption of adjustments from place to place and time to time ? |
| 20 | Even where sediment is recorded , it is frequently in the form of sand waves that move from place to place and do not accumulate . |
| 21 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 22 | The middle classes , especially those in government service , have to move from place to place and so need continuity of curriculum . |
| 23 | In earlier times the quality of the information provided by a register varies from place to place and from incumbent to incumbent . |
| 24 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
| 25 | It seems to be the reasonable approach to adopt , although it will vary from time to time and from place to place and it is a question of of balancing a number of factors . |
| 26 | " Day " can mean either a calendar day or a period of 24 hours , according to context , and the meaning of " working day " will depend on the custom of the particular trade — and may vary from place to place and from time to time . |
| 27 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 28 | As might be expected when the large area in which Gaelic was widespread is considered , plant names may differ from place to place or be recorded in variant forms , and the choice ( in most cases ) of one name only in the Flora was extremely difficult . |
| 29 | Subsequent annual measurements , made at more than 20 triangulated stations , have revealed that ice motion and ablation are not uniform from place to place or from year to year . |