Example sentences of "[coord] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 2 | The move from verse to prose can often signify a drop in seriousness , to mockery or ridicule ; from tension to relaxation ; or from public to private discourse . |
| 3 | Ultimately , of course , it does n't matter where or when the music was composed , and I urged any reader with an ear for beauty — whether your tastes habitually range from Mozart to early Beethoven , or from Bartók to Stockhausen , or anywhere in between or beyond — to investigate this CD forthwith . |
| 4 | In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 7 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 8 | Were you to want to travel truly scenically from Bayonne to Cambo , or from Cambo to Bayonne for that matter , then you would take the road very magnificently known as the Route Impériale tea Cimes , or ‘ Imperial Route of the Peaks ’ , which lies east of the main road and is many times more beautiful . |
| 9 | Likewise , if past convention has made a particular layout familiar ( such as time increasing downwards or from left to right ) , a change should be considered only if a clear advantage is to be gained . |
| 10 | What counts as better or worse with respect to scientific theories will vary from individual to individual or from community to community . |
| 11 | They correct their own pronunciation , e.g. , fwo to fwog ( for frog ) ; their own morphology , e.g. , the man go to the man going or the man 's going ; and their own lexical choices , e.g. , from ship to boat ( for a rowing-boat ) , or from shoe to sandal ( for a sandal ) . |
| 12 | It make no difference at all , electronically speaking , whether the line is printed from left to right or from right to left and most modern printers are capable of bi-directional printing . |
| 13 | Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those |
| 14 | Other repetitive abnormal behaviour exhibited by deprived horses includes swinging the head and neck up and down , or from side to side , and the extension of this habit into the stable vice of weaving . |
| 15 | For Marxist thinkers this has usually meant the accession to power of a new class , involving the transformation of the whole social system , as in the transition from feudalism to capitalism , or from capitalism to socialism . |
| 16 | A court can include a requirement for the child to be medically or psychiatrically examined on one occasion or from time to time as directed by the supervisor ( para 4(2) ) . |
| 17 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 18 | 3 Changes in mood , for example from indicative to interrogative or from imperative to subjunctive . |
| 19 | In every Shakespeare play where prose appears ( as it does in all but four : Henry VI , Parts 1 and 3 ; King John ; Richard II ) , characters constantly move from prose to verse , or from verse to prose , and back again . |
| 20 | Most agree , though , that care management does not preclude social workers from going back to direct work with clients , nor from switching to other areas like child care . |
| 21 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 22 | In earlier times the quality of the information provided by a register varies from place to place and from incumbent to incumbent . |
| 23 | Pages are written closely and amorphously from side to side and from top to bottom . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | While pressure-group influence varies over time and from issue to issue , such groupings must now be seen as an integral part of local public administration . |
| 26 | Perhaps local politics needs to be seen as a series of shifting alliances , varying over time and from issue to issue . |
| 27 | What is appropriate will , naturally , vary from job to job and from country to country . |
| 28 | Relationships vary over time , from authority to authority and from service to service . |
| 29 | It was set a great deal more by the massive alteration in the balance of the Catholic community — the decline of France , Italy and Spain , the rise of Brazil , the United States , the Philippines , even Zaire , the revival of Catholic Eastern Europe , the larger shift from both west to east ( especially in Europe ) and from north to south . |
| 30 | The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces . |