Example sentences of "ranging from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A coalition of 50 groups , ranging from Friends of the Earth to the main trade union federation , the AFL-CIO , are lobbying Congress to vote against the present " fast-track " plan , which would allow the Bush Administration to negotiate all the terms of the agreement , presenting Congress with a simple decision to approve the whole package . |
| 2 | Some 70,000 such licenses have been granted to companies and individuals ranging from farmers to brewers . |
| 3 | This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment . |
| 4 | 1988 ) considered 13 different aspects of disability ranging from difficulties with locomotion to problems with consciousness , eating and drinking and disfigure-ment ( Table 4.4 ) . |
| 5 | This international course will emphasise organisation of communication and non-formal education programmes that are designed for various sectors of society ranging from policy-makers to villagers . |
| 6 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 7 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 8 | Kroeber and his followers devoted considerable effort to studies ranging from changes in skirt length over several decades to the diffusion and diversity of artefact styles amongst Californian Indians ( Kroeber 1939 ) . |
| 9 | Slug in ash ( above ) and tortoise in burr elm ( right ) Making no bones about methods or means , David is a proud user of mechanical aids , ranging from lathes to the Woodcarver , from drum sanders to a Black & Decker Powerfile . |
| 10 | Mr Clarke said last night that the pay of five million workers , ranging from teachers to nurses and civil servants , would be curbed for the second year in a row . |
| 11 | In this species there is no clear distinction between primary visual cortex and the secondary visual areas that are present in most other species , ranging from rats to monkeys , and there is almost total overlap between the motor cortex , defined in terms of the area of cortex from which movements can be evoked by electrical stimulation , and the somatosensory cortex , defined in terms of the area from which electrical activity can be evoked by stimulation of the body surface ( Kaas 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Next I would lay out pictures of a variety of TV people and characters , ranging from presenters like Cilla Black or Philip Schofield , through soap characters such as Bobby from Home and Away or Todd from Neighbours , to puppets such as Edd the Duck , who appears alongside the presenter in children 's BBC television . |
| 13 | A pertinent statistical table produced by Nykrog shows how clerks are always successful in the eternal triangle of sexual competition , pitted against husbands ranging from knights to peasants . |
| 14 | From a control panel in the living room , a householder would supervise any number of appliances , ranging from heaters to door locks . |
| 15 | But they were pervasive , ranging from policies on the taxation of profits to regional assistance schemes . |
| 16 | Produce a series of recruitment aids , ranging from videos to leaflets . |
| 17 | But sport is fighting an uphill battle against the recession and competing leisure time activities ranging from videos to computers and home shopping , the survey adds . |
| 18 | These input data uncertainties are attributable to a number of sources ranging from errors in the original cartographic map documents through to the effects of the GIS operations themselves . |
| 19 | The companies were ranked on various measures of corporate success ( ranging from returns on sales and equity to rates of growth of sales and profits ) , and were then split into three groups : top performers , average firms and laggards . |
| 20 | Having interviewed my fair share of criminals and oddballs , ranging from murderers to men with silver foil round their heads claiming protection from the moon 's beams , I thought I had a well-developed instinct for sensing a nutter when I met one . |
| 21 | It is much less easy when one has to explain the simultaneous extinction of several unrelated groups , ranging from ammonites to pterodactyls , living in different habitats at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 22 | Popularly known as the florist 's gloxinia , Sinningia speciosa can produce beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers , ranging from shades of red , purple and pink to white , five months after sowing if kept in a greenhouse with a night temperature of 18–21°C |
| 23 | The best known in the West is probably shakudo , which is a copper alloy with a deep black patina , but other copper alloys were patinated to produce colours ranging from shades of grey and brown through to green . |
| 24 | Definitive reference , ranging from encyclopedias to special interests . |
| 25 | The tanners ' chief customers were the shoemakers , but of course quite a variety of goods , ranging from bottles to garments and from saddles to straps , were made out of leather . |
| 26 | The houses , whose front doors opened directly on the street , were a mixed bag , ranging from cottages to substantial dwellings of some distinction , originally built for Packet skippers . |
| 27 | But it will also contain high levels of nitrates ; chlorine and/or chloramine ; and a host of other nasties ranging from metals to pesticides . |
| 28 | An intelligentsia was one of the byproducts , ranging from priests to teachers , journalists and writers . |
| 29 | A three-day trade mission of 16 US semiconductor companies arranged by the US Department of Commerce opened in Tokyo yesterday : 60 representatives from the firms , ranging from engineers to chief executives , will hold 150 face-to-face meetings with 27 Japanese chip users to explore new business opportunities . |
| 30 | The former has fourteen texts ranging from manifestoes by Malevich and Marinetti to extracts from Bergson , Simmel , Weber and Karl Kraus ; the latter has twelve more familiar texts on Cubism . |