Example sentences of "[pers pn] vary from [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe .
2 Who are defined as enemies and what action is taken against them varies from country to country and from time to time .
3 Public opinion toward them varies from suspicion to hostility , and a major police problem would appear to be relations with the public .
4 In return the museums can offer a wide range of privileges and special activities — they vary from museum to museum .
5 However , solutions to such problems are culturally determined : they vary from society to society .
6 They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture .
7 In general , though , they vary from long-oval in shape to almost globular , are borne on rather long peduncles and , by now , will have almost entirely lost the wizened remains of the flower 's calyx .
8 You would be wise to phone ahead , especially if you are coming a long way , to check opening times because they vary from time to time .
9 Liberals might welcome this ; yet the effects , as they varied from state to state , were by no means reassuring .
10 It varies from person to person obviously now know that Laura is talk to her ask a question after nine minutes erm absorbed to knowledge .
11 Yes , I think , I mean , it varies from day to day , but as you say the rumours at the moment are that the is being upped a bit and I think it would be different .
12 It varies from village to village does n't it ?
13 I think the problem is , that at the moment sex education is so arbitrary and it varies from school to school and from house to house I think they have to make it like a core part of the curriculum , make it compulsory and make it uniform throughout the country , so everybody 's getting the same education , the same quality I think that 'll help .
14 There is a very high proportion of police officers on the beat , although it varies from force to force .
15 Thus the activities of successive Conservative governments since 1979 may have made the re-emergence of local political activity more likely , but the form that this activity takes , how it varies from place to place and how it develops will be shaped by the interaction of local and national processes .
16 Where it is excessive , or where it varies from point to point , problems occur , resulting in cracking , disfigurement and detachment of the walls .
17 The Latin used in medieval documents likely to be of interest to readers of this present volume was not the classical language of antiquity , nor were its standards universally high , and it varied from century to century as time advanced .
18 We never had a routine day , it varied from day to day .
19 Historians agree that the size of this group was certainly much reduced in number by the middle of the eighteenth century , but the chronology of this decline is debatable for it varied from region to region .
20 Oh it varied from time to time .
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