Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Medical Research Council 's trial the relative risk of dying from cancer for men receiving atenolol was 1.9 compared with placebo ( 1.2 to 2.8 ) and 1.4 ( 0.9 to 2.2 ) compared with diuretic . |
| 2 | In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s . |
| 3 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 4 | And it will wheel out some real oldies to broadcast 20 hours a day , ranging from comedy to dramas ( The Onedin Line and The Duchess of Duke Street among them ) . |
| 5 | Some 70,000 such licenses have been granted to companies and individuals ranging from farmers to brewers . |
| 6 | This international course will emphasise organisation of communication and non-formal education programmes that are designed for various sectors of society ranging from policy-makers to villagers . |
| 7 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 8 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 9 | Mr Clarke said last night that the pay of five million workers , ranging from teachers to nurses and civil servants , would be curbed for the second year in a row . |
| 10 | In this species there is no clear distinction between primary visual cortex and the secondary visual areas that are present in most other species , ranging from rats to monkeys , and there is almost total overlap between the motor cortex , defined in terms of the area of cortex from which movements can be evoked by electrical stimulation , and the somatosensory cortex , defined in terms of the area from which electrical activity can be evoked by stimulation of the body surface ( Kaas 1982 ) . |
| 11 | A pertinent statistical table produced by Nykrog shows how clerks are always successful in the eternal triangle of sexual competition , pitted against husbands ranging from knights to peasants . |
| 12 | Produce a series of recruitment aids , ranging from videos to leaflets . |
| 13 | But sport is fighting an uphill battle against the recession and competing leisure time activities ranging from videos to computers and home shopping , the survey adds . |
| 14 | Having interviewed my fair share of criminals and oddballs , ranging from murderers to men with silver foil round their heads claiming protection from the moon 's beams , I thought I had a well-developed instinct for sensing a nutter when I met one . |
| 15 | It is much less easy when one has to explain the simultaneous extinction of several unrelated groups , ranging from ammonites to pterodactyls , living in different habitats at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 16 | The tanners ' chief customers were the shoemakers , but of course quite a variety of goods , ranging from bottles to garments and from saddles to straps , were made out of leather . |
| 17 | But it will also contain high levels of nitrates ; chlorine and/or chloramine ; and a host of other nasties ranging from metals to pesticides . |
| 18 | An intelligentsia was one of the byproducts , ranging from priests to teachers , journalists and writers . |
| 19 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 20 | Secondly , on the face of it , the middle class contains an extremely diverse group of workers ranging from secretaries to accountants , shop-assistants to managers , shopkeepers to social workers . |
| 21 | In industries of all types , ranging from textiles to automobiles and electronics , multinational corporations have transferred work to the Third World by setting up plants where cheap labour performed the most labour-intensive sub-processes in manufacturing . |
| 22 | Aware that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had a massive audience , ranging from children to grandparents , Crawford said , ‘ I then go and put myself before the public ’ as Billy Liar , whose first words as he comes on stage are along the lines of ‘ Christ Almighty , bloody , blimey ! ’ in a song . |
| 23 | Disney has been plagued by difficulties ranging from rows with contractors over construction costs to grumblings by members of the Disney ‘ cast ’ over employment conditions . |
| 24 | Claiming to speak at Gorbachev 's behest , and using some of the most hardline language heard from a senior official in recent years , Kryuchkov lumped together groups ranging from radicals to nationalists to economic saboteurs in warning that anti-democratic forces were " rushing to seize power on a wave of anti-communism " . |
| 25 | The role of civilian experts , ranging from police to specialists in elections and administration , has become a crucial part of the UN peace-keeping package . |
| 26 | Where once husbands and wives would ‘ go into mourning ’ for prescribed periods ranging from months to years , we like to see people pick themselves up and get on with it . |
| 27 | They seemed to sell everything from bolts of brightly coloured , imported cloth for making sarongs or Mother Hubbards — the island dress that hangs in a straight line from shoulder to ankle — to penknives and a large assortment of tools ranging from chisels to axes , from fishing lines and hooks to pots and pans . |
| 28 | In going from atoms to quarks there is a change of scale by a factor of at least ten million . |
| 29 | The research process highlighted the difficulty of going from research to recommendations , and the effect of changing health advice on both health professionals providing advice and on mothers receiving it . |
| 30 | He said villagers already suffered noise and disruption related to the hotel , including helicopters flying in and out , and disco music blaring from parties in marquees . |