Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats . |
| 2 | It is important to book as early as possible , since kennels fill up quickly at peak times , with customers booking from one year to the next . |
| 3 | The research and teaching interests of the Department of English Literature and its Postgraduate School are varied and challenging from Medieval Studies to Postmodernism and from traditional literary scholarship to contemporary literary theory , and were marked in 1992 by the award of the highest possible ranking in the national research selectivity exercise . |
| 4 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 5 | Both deals will cut gearing from 45 p.c. to a pro forma 25 p.c . |
| 6 | Instead of the single , level playing-field for financial services that the Community talks of , the field will indeed be single but still sloping from one end to the other . |
| 7 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 8 | Well , I went with a friend from university and we both enjoyed walking and in particular we enjoyed walking from one place to another place , and last summer was the only last long break either of us would ever really have and erm |
| 9 | Erm or people attending the blues , walking from one end to the other . |
| 10 | Wandering around Wainfleet one finds oneself walking from one atmosphere to another . |
| 11 | Samuel Pepys , visiting his relations at Wisbech thirty-five years later , was equally unimpressed as he passed through ‘ most sad fennes , all the way observing the sad life which the people of the place — which if they were born there , they do call the Breedlings of the place — do live , sometimes rowing from one spot to another and then wadeing ’ . |
| 12 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 13 | Goods passing from one country to another have to be paid for ; trading between countries thus involves the creation of debts between countries . |
| 14 | In figure 6.5 an example of a data flow is the delivery notes passing from one supplier to the process ‘ check note against order ’ . |
| 15 | ( The dotted lines represent influences passing from one variety to another . ) |
| 16 | Nathalie Sarraute once described literature as a relay race , the baton of innovation passing from one generation to another . |
| 17 | Insolvency , bankruptcy — in passing from one generation to another , the terms never lost their dread significance . |
| 18 | Once the structure is complete , it 's difficult to prevent sounds passing from one part to another , or to prevent sounds entering or leaving the building . |
| 19 | The conversation swirled , passing from one topic to another . |
| 20 | A mechanical analogy is the Euler strut , where a beam is stable on either side of a centre line but unstable on it , passing from one side to the other discontinuously . |
| 21 | They complained loudly that targets could not be reached , but sometimes I detected whispers passing from one woman to another . |
| 22 | In passing from one parish to another , in simply crossing a nameless brook or road , we may step back into fields that were created , not by the commissioners of Georgian times , but by the Tudor squire or perhaps even by his monastic predecessors in the fifteenth century . |
| 23 | This task of considering key moments can be a very valuable way of recapping from one session to the next when the drama extends over a long period , as it usually does once it becomes part of a project or topic work . |
| 24 | Before she met the Minister at a party , through her Private Eye journalist friend Paul Halloran , the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate was leading an uncertain lifestyle bouncing from one boyfriend to the next and one downmarket job to another . |
| 25 | So much discussion of disruption loses its way with attention wandering from one priority to another . |
| 26 | Looking from one man to the other , he said , ‘ Well , hello there . ’ |
| 27 | ' ’ On information received ? ’ ' he said , looking from one detective to the other . |
| 28 | Behind her was the backdrop of green garden foliage , and just out of her reach , on a small coffee-table that she had positioned at Faye 's instruction , stood an enormous vase filled with flowers — all red ones , ranging from deepest crimson to a vibrant vermilion orange . |
| 29 | There are English law cases of the late fifteenth-century for not providing meat , drink , and lodging to a retired father-in-law , while Swedish High Court disputes of two centuries later show grievances ranging from poor food to cursing and physical violence . |
| 30 | Graydon tested out this system by producing a list of some hundreds of UK buyers for the credit insurer with each buyer measured with a risk score ranging from low risk to high risk . |