Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 2 | The best solution was found to differ from area to area and enterprise to enterprise . |
| 3 | In fact , they all look like they should be in different bands — which is how they manage to slip from soul to jazz , from funk to thrash , so easily . |
| 4 | For another , many of the genes carried by plasmids — such as those specifying resistance to the antibiotics kanamycin or penicillin — are flanked by special DNA which enables them to jump from plasmid to chromosome and back , or from one plasmid to another . |
| 5 | He describes the neo-Darwinian approach taken by ethologists , concentrates on the behavioural ecology of Old World monkeys and apes in an attempt to extrapolate from animals to man , and examines the political objections to sociobiology . |
| 6 | Naturally , some of us continued to meet from time to time , constituting the Tyrrell Society in all but name . |
| 7 | I begin with this area because , firstly , it is towards the top of the paper and it is always preferable to work from top to bottom to alleviate unwanted smudging . |
| 8 | I begin with this area because , firstly , it is towards the top of the paper and it is always preferable to work from top to bottom to alleviate unwanted smudging . |
| 9 | It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise . |
| 10 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
| 11 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
| 12 | The modern modification of representative democracy is therefore to see the public as being allowed to choose from time to time between two or more broad political programmes , and being able to reject a party that has failed to carry out its promises . |
| 13 | When he had finished it , he leaned back in his chair and , resting his hands on his stomach , he watched Sammy who was making a series of strange noises in his food while his tail continued to wag from side to side . |
| 14 | Christians need to reflect from time to time on their faith , knowing that it is easy to be distracted from their calling to be disciples . |
| 15 | An example of a clause providing for the payment of a participating dividend is : The Company shall after making all necessary provisions for payment of the Preference Dividend ( including any Arrears ) and the redemption of the Preference Shares but in priority to payment of any dividend to the holders of Ordinary Shares , pay to the holders of the Preferred Ordinary Shares as from ( and inclusive of ) the accounting period ending … , subject to payment in full of the Preferred Dividend ( including any Arrears of the same ) pay to the holders of Preferred Ordinary Shares a cumulative cash dividend ( " the Participating Dividend " ) of a sum ( net of any advance corporation tax payable by the Company ) equal to … % of the Profit After Tax for each accounting period of the Company ; the Participating Dividend shall be deemed to accrue from day to day throughout each accounting period and shall become payable and be paid not later than four months immediately following the end of the accounting period to which it relates . |
| 16 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 17 | The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board . |
| 18 | These are just a few of the situations that you may have to tackle from time to time . |
| 19 | 5.4.2 To replace from time to time the Landlord 's fixtures and fittings in the Premises which may be or become beyond repair at any time during or at the expiration of the Term |
| 20 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 21 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 22 | In other words , the Home Secretary would have a discretion to exercise from case to case , with the result that the duration of each warrant would vary , subject to a statutory maximum period . |
| 23 | He used to cycle from village to village visiting farms to inspect the animals , then on market days he would try to conclude deals between the farmers . |
| 24 | Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business . |
| 25 | Before the First World War , the younger women of the village , of whom my mother was one , used to walk from Mavhinje to Štivan ( San Giovanni ) , near the coast , and bring back pots of water on their heads . |
| 26 | In its early days , the ERM allowed weak currencies to devalue from time to time . |
| 27 | There is , however , a video of his performance which he is encouraged to play from time to time by his two children . |
| 28 | He pointed to ‘ Pergoles ’ and she lifted her head again to look from side to side . |
| 29 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 30 | Faced for the second time with the collapse of Balliol 's rule , Edward once again mobilized an army , this time for a winter campaign which proved unpopular with the troops and which was abandoned under pressure from Philip VI to conclude a truce , which was to last from Easter to midsummer 1335 . |