Example sentences of "[adv] from the [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place your question in the centre of the model and work outwards from the parts to the further questions . |
| 2 | With cars , tractors and lorries , farmers can travel daily from the lowlands to the hills . |
| 3 | Many others now are commuting daily from the valleys to new industries nearer the coast . |
| 4 | He turned back into the town , away from the buses to George 's road , towards the public house . |
| 5 | Ricky and Alejandro had to be dragged away from the horses to a lunch laid out on a blue-and-white checked tablecloth under the gum trees . |
| 6 | Dorothea Gilberd edged away from the parents to whom she had been uttering words of reassurance about their little Philip 's future and glided quite at random in the direction of Tom Tedder . |
| 7 | The immediate increase in those deposits will come from transfers from banks but the ultimate origin will be a diversion of funds away from the destinations to which they had been channelled by unit trust managements . |
| 8 | But already the symptoms which are inseparable from the growth of bureaucracy are there : the importance of the permanent officials grows , rules become more numerous , violent pronouncements rarer , negotiation more frequent , and power is gradually drawn away from the regions to the central government . |
| 9 | They can be very difficult to prise away from the hairs to which they are attached . |
| 10 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 11 | Where there are complicated angles in the shoulders I generally find that the most straightforward method is to mark off directly from the parts to which the rail is to be jointed . |
| 12 | Scraps of paper were passed relentlessly from the skiers to Hans — ‘ Any time you 're in Swindon — anytime . |
| 13 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 14 | A fourth gang had meanwhile laid a narrow bogey line downhill from the woods to the workings and soon a steady flow of timber , all cut to lengths , was arriving at the lower end . |
| 15 | It is no longer the case that the romantic style means dancing classically from the feet to the waist and above that allowing the body , arms and head to express themselves to describe the moods , emotions and actions of the characters . |
| 16 | Doses and lengths of exposure time were high but ‘ not so far from the levels to which some people are exposed , particularly in the workplace ’ . |
| 17 | In the nearby town of Thame , Lord Williams ( who did well from the pickings to be had in that century ) founded his own grammar school : Oxfordshire lost one and gained one . |
| 18 | A boy ran across from the toilets to the drinking fountain in the centre of the playground from which hung an iron cup on a heavy chain . |
| 19 | Oxford Practice Grammar contains over a hundred double-page units with the exercises facing the explanations so that students can glance across from the exercises to the rules and back . |
| 20 | Morton remained on his feet , swaying backwards and forwards from the balls to the heels of his shoes . |
| 21 | Federal expenditure on administration was 48 billion dinars , and , apart from the grants to the republics and provinces of 60 billion dinars , only 19 billion dinars was used for other purposes . |
| 22 | Apart from the grants to a local authority over which the Central Government exercise control and such other controls as are provided by legislation , the Central Government is in no stronger a position to take action against the local authority than an individual citizen — both have the same right to go to the courts to prevent illegal expenditure by ‘ relator action ’ at the instance of the Attorney-General of the Crown . |
| 23 | ‘ You mean apart from the cheques to be written out for these accounts ? |
| 24 | Apart from the risks to car drivers , passengers , and cyclists themselves however , pedestrian casualty figures are also alarming . |