Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Movements between tenures , whether from tied cottages to council houses or from council houses to owner-occupation , is a particularly important reason for movements between villages ( Dunn et al . |
| 2 | Adam Hunter ( 72-145 ) and Gary Orr , who holed from eight feet to par the last for 71 and 146 , also got through , but non-qualifiers included Brian Marchbank ( 78-153 ) and Andrew Coltart ( 75-154 ) . |
| 3 | These range from private arrangements to penalty . |
| 4 | However , such is the current power and purpose of a team who 'd only ever won four times before the start of this season , that nothing less than victory will do to complete a remarkable transformation from perennial under-achievers to Championship top dogs . |
| 5 | Chairman Ken Bates acted after a run of 12 matches without a win that has seen the club eliminated from both major cup competitions and slump from title-chasing territory to mid-table . |
| 6 | Attitudes to homosexuality and lesbianism in our society range from complete rejection to acceptance of it as a valid alternative to a heterosexual preference . |
| 7 | Rounded values for lifetime risk from prolonged exposure to radon , and its daughters , in the home are given in Table 2 . |
| 8 | As Figure 4.1 indicates , early retirement was the major route out of the labour market , from economic activity to inactivity . |
| 9 | Then why not listen to DC Talk ( the ‘ DC ’ stands for ‘ decent Christian ’ ) rapping about everything from divine providence to abortion ( ‘ Yo , children can live without it ’ ) . |
| 10 | The General Accident will insure you for all sums which you become legally liable to pay for loss of metered water resulting directly from accidental damage to water pipes and apparatus providing service to the buildings described in the schedule . |
| 11 | 4* and 5* policies cover all sums for which the policyholder becomes legally liable to pay for loss of metered water resulting directly from accidental damage to water pipes and apparatus providing service to the buildings described in the schedule . |
| 12 | Suppose , as is now common in logical semantics , we view a proposition as a function from possible worlds to truth values ( i.e. as an abstract assignment of the value true to just those states of affairs which the proposition correctly describes — see Allwood , Andersson & Dahl , 1977 : 20-3 for elementary exposition ) . |
| 13 | Another way of handling indexicals is to think of the specification of the content of an utterance as a two stage affair : the " meaning " of an utterance is a function from contexts ( sets of indices ) to propositions , which are in turn functions from possible worlds to truth values ( Montague , 1970 ; Stalnaker , 1972 ) . |
| 14 | The ascent of the Labour Party in West Ham during the early interwar years can be thought coterminous with its emergence from political obscurity to power in the metropolis as a whole , but there are considerable theoretical and empirical problems in the equation that challenge any such identification . |
| 15 | Finally , on 17th August 1801 , Commander Dundas was appointed acting captain of the newly commissioned San Antonio , having completed the transition from junior lieutenant to post-captain in just over one year . |
| 16 | From junior reporter to celebrity |
| 17 | In its view this change would shift priorities from local to national interest and from regional economics to conservation . |
| 18 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 19 | None the less , observers of animal behaviour know that altruistic acts with differing degrees of self-sacrifice are of common occurrence , ranging from parental care to group defence and rescue behaviour to complex forms of co-operation . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll be looking at all sorts of music , from liturgical chants to Fiddler on the Roof stuff and Hassidic Rock . ’ |
| 21 | It shows a man in a suit and waistcoat from lower lapel to mid-thigh , a tuck of shirt emerging from his fly and casually nearby , his large ( black ) penis in repose . |
| 22 | Meadowbank Sports Centre is the venue for an ‘ Activity Day for 50+ ’ offering a choice of organised activities ranging from indoor bowls to fencing to yoga . |
| 23 | There was growing opposition during 1989-90 from non-Moslem groups to Islamization in some states . |
| 24 | Falling standards of care may well result from a transfer of responsibility from professional agencies to family care . |
| 25 | Even during the quiet moments you can not fail to be amused by the range of items on offer from edible underwear to garlic chewing gum . |
| 26 | We 're marking the release on video this week of the Dustin Hoffman movie Accidental Hero , which tells the story of a small-time petty thief 's rise from sleazy obscurity to fortitude and heroic deeds . |
| 27 | While street markets can easily adapt to changing demand from fresh vegetables to bric-a-brac , covered markets can present a greater problem . |
| 28 | Realist science is a means of conceptual discovery based on the movement at any given level of analysis , from manifest phenomena to knowledge of the structures and mechanisms which generate them … . |
| 29 | His mother had drunk too much stout , ‘ gone up the school ’ , and had him transferred from metal work to Latin , from Civic Studies to French ; she had paid a maths coach with the earnings of a paper-round she had sent him out on . |
| 30 | McDonald 's is proud of the ingredients used in all products , from the basic Hamburger to the Big Mac , from French Fries to Apple Pies . |