Example sentences of "is [v-ing] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Scandinavian sources suggest a date of 1027 for the battle of Holy River , but this is rendered implausible by chapter 13 of the Letter sent by Cnut to England in that year , which mentions people who had tried to deprive him of his kingdom and his life , but whose power had been destroyed by God , and says that he is returning from Rome to Denmark to make peace with them . |
| 2 | Maurice suggested that an attempt had already been made , after Eliot 's separation from her , to have her committed but that Vivien , having been warned about , or suspecting , such a move , went to Paris — certainly she recorded on 19 June 1935 some plan to have her " arrested " but nothing happened ; then , six days later , she is writing from Paris to a friend , Louise Purdon . |
| 3 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |
| 4 | The luxury liner , holed when she ran aground off America , is heading from Boston to Hamburg under her own power . |
| 5 | The export of high quality quarry stones and gravel mainly for road construction in South East England is a trade which is going from strength to strength . |
| 6 | Palatine is going from strength to strength as an independent . |
| 7 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 8 | Do n't pigeon-hole him as horror , he writes thrillers with paranormal undertones and is going from strength to strength . |
| 9 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 10 | The Elderslie Wallace Boys Club , started by Stoddard 's storeman , Jim Clark and his friend Andy Lee seven years ago , is going from strength to strength . |
| 11 | My health is improving from day to day . |
| 12 | The idea of groining a beach is that along the Sussex coast the beach material is moving from west to east , this is because the prevailing winds drive the gravel erm onto the beach from the southwest , and it moves in that direction all the time . |
| 13 | The guard at the entrance can watch who is moving from floor to floor . ’ |
| 14 | Padding is moving from shoulders to chest — yes , bosoms are back ! |
| 15 | A new temperance movement is spreading from state to state , to the alarm of brewers and distillers , and of some in government . |
| 16 | The number of visitors is increasing from year to year but at the peak of the holiday season this is causing more congestion and overuse of the landscape . |
| 17 | Like the Jews , they are exactly the sort of quick-decision , risk-accepting businessmen who are needed when a region is changing from communism to capitalism . |