Example sentences of "[adv] from place to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Greek spoken in 1821 varied greatly from place to place ; one lot of islanders who proved invaluable in getting rid of the Turks spoke , in fact , Albanian . |
| 3 | There will then be taboos against appearing " naked " in inappropriate situations , though just what counts as either naked or inappropriate varies greatly from place to place for no very obvious or logical reason . |
| 4 | A child 's access to schooling varies greatly from place to place . |
| 5 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 6 | For one thing , they varied enormously from place to place ( e.g. the distinctions between the policies of the colonial administrations of Kenya and neighbouring Uganda , Brett 1973 ; Leys 1975 ) , and between Anglophone and Francophone Africa . |
| 7 | Teachers ' centres vary enormously from place to place , but typically provide facilities for teachers to meet , formally or informally , to attend short courses , to hold exhibitions and displays , and consult materials . |
| 8 | In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place , gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting . |
| 9 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rates were locally assessed and the amounts payable varied considerably from place to place . |