Example sentences of "the [noun pl] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ As you know I do n't work in the firm but I do give a hand with the accounts from time to time — ’ |
2 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |
3 | There was a feeling of helpless impotence which permeated up through the ranks from GI to Supreme Command . |
4 | Even in the sixties , the words ‘ a tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ had led the courts from manners to morals . |
5 | We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year . |
6 | ‘ She used to read The Times from cover to cover . |
7 | There were reports of civilian casualties on the roads from Baghdad to Kuwait , and to the Jordanian border [ see p. 38025 for Jordanian accounts of the destruction of a bus carrying Jordanian civilians leaving Kuwait ] . |
8 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
9 | Taking in the titles from left to right , he at first saw little of interest:Queer Things About Egypt ; Wonderful Nests , by the Rev. J. G. Wood ; The Elements of Mechanism ; Highways and Byways in the West Country … |
10 | In particular , the shifts from entitlement to discretion , exemplified by the Social Fund , and the exclusion of certain groups from the benefits system , notably 16- and 17-year olds . |
11 | UKAEA claimed , despite government denials , that it had informed the Department of Transport of the shipments from Germany to its plant at Dounreay via Wick airport . |
12 | On command , a wave of tube inflation rises up the tights from ankle to thigh , squeezing the vein-blood in front of it . |
13 | Will every British high street look the same , with the same familiar handful of names dominating the shopfronts from Penzance to Perth ? |
14 | By 1989 the branches from Tondu to Garw and Ogmore had both closed , leaving only Maesteg as a source of traffic in this once thriving part of the Welsh coalfield . |
15 | When , however , it is exposed in the left field alone , the tendency to move the eyes at the beginning of the line ( presumably the dominant one ) would be in conflict with the tendency to move the eyes from left to right . |
16 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
17 | And when their great Emperor Gia Long finally rose from the Mekong delta a century ago to unify all the peoples from Saigon to Hanoi , had n't he triumphantly renamed his new empire " Viet Nam " ? |
18 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
19 | Andrewes was chairman of the committee which was responsible for the books from Genesis to Kings . |
20 | The agreement provided for the price of the petrol ‘ to be agreed by the parties from time to time ’ and failing agreement to be settled by arbitration . |
21 | Typically , the program would look at the words from left to right , and test whether each word in the sentence was a likely candidate for the case slots of the main verb . |
22 | As new evidence came to light the risks from exposure to radiation appeared worse and worse . |
23 | In the so-called ‘ pill scare ’ of 1977 attention was first drawn to the risks from thrombosis to older women on the pill ( Vessey et al . |
24 | It is especially serious on land bearing winter cereals , since the resulting ploughland can be exposed to the elements from October to April . |
25 | He dangled the keys from hand to hand . |
26 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
27 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
28 | His evasion of time as a restrictive element is brought out by Ralegh who insists that ‘ Time drives the flocks from field to fold ’ . |
29 | They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time . |
30 | The dogs warden who had originally transferred the dogs from Oxford to the police kennels confirmed that Robbie and Sophie were the dogs he had taken , and Mrs Sumner — breeder of the Sharmas ' dogs — stated that they were certainly not the dogs she had sold . |