Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun pl] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be looking at all sorts of music , from liturgical chants to Fiddler on the Roof stuff and Hassidic Rock . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was growing opposition during 1989-90 from non-Moslem groups to Islamization in some states . |
| 10 | Falling standards of care may well result from a transfer of responsibility from professional agencies to family care . |
| 11 | While street markets can easily adapt to changing demand from fresh vegetables to bric-a-brac , covered markets can present a greater problem . |
| 12 | 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 … . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | According to her personality type , she can be expected to react on this first day with anything from brave smiles to tension and tears , but this will be quite normal . |
| 16 | The only source of information from this study of any possible reluctance to admit people from residential homes to hospital relates to those who were admitted and respondents ’ views on whether they should have been admitted earlier . |
| 17 | In light of these findings , we suggest that social work needs to move away from profession-centred approaches to education and practice and towards a reconceptualization of its place in social welfare and social development efforts . |
| 18 | Pepys moved around from public places to coffee houses and taverns hoping to do business . |
| 19 | Police were still evacuating hotel guests and residents , including many pensioners , from nearby homes to safety when the detonator went off . |
| 20 | As might be expected , most advertisements incorporated in books proclaim the publishers ' own wares-but with books issued in parts , such as those of Dickens , they can be a joyous medley covering everything from top hats to mouse traps , pills to perambulators and hair oils to phrenology . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They release , on average , ten LPs every week on different labels and cover all musical styles from popular classics to death metal . |
| 23 | They release , on average , ten LPs every week on different labels and cover all musical styles from popular classics to death metal . |
| 24 | The community facilities would range from ordinary houses to group homes and hostels . |
| 25 | Within this there are three particular concerns : the practical reasoning employed by ordinary policemen and women to help them accomplish routine duties ; how they interact with various sections of the public , from ethnic minorities to road users ; and how they perceive various aspects of police work , including the area within which they function and its people , what comprises ‘ real ’ police work , and what constitutes ‘ good ’ or competent practice . |
| 26 | Instead , priority will be given to developing and testing new products with civilian applications ranging from clean-fuel cars to fibre optics and supercomputer networks to improve communications and information access . |
| 27 | Meals to suit every mood from self-service snacks to cafe society fare served in elegant luxury . |
| 28 | Having inspected hundreds of buildings of every conceivable age and style , from ancient castle to modern semi , and having supervised the construction , maintenance and preservation of hundreds more , from hi-tech laboratories to family homes , I am struck by the huge difference between the well designed and built , and the badly designed and built , the latter being at the heart of most of the horror stories . |
| 29 | There are nineteen more employed on running campaigns ranging from tropical rainforests to air pollution and London 's roads . |
| 30 | Even more profound changes happened in the internal structures of the brachiopods , partly those concerned with supporting the lophophore — these changed from simple loops to complex ‘ doubled back ’ structures , or to fantastic spirals and whorls — all presumably designed to increase the ways of food-gathering , and its efficiency . |