Example sentences of "from [noun] to [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |
| 2 | In Africa , it is argued that man was using fire at least 50–55 000 years ago , taking coals from camp to camp and using the fire to smoke out bees from their nests in honey-hunting , or driving game . |
| 3 | And improvement in the working conditions of pregnant women , such as exclusion from exposure to vibration and radiation , for example , would improve both maternal and fetal health . |
| 4 | With a flattering scoop neckline and tucked short sleeves , it fastens at the front with 10 small buttons from neckline to hem and has a softly swirling eight-panel skirt . |
| 5 | Traditional models consist of the transfer of information from one person to another , for example , from user to designer and from manager to designer . |
| 6 | As always with matters of team work , the basic environmental factors differed from case to case and complicated any analysis of what constitutes a ‘ team ’ ( Marshall , et al . , |
| 7 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |
| 8 | The way in which such imputed values are found varies from case to case and is seldom straightforward . |
| 9 | Distance from withers to elbow and elbow to ground is equal . |
| 10 | Thus the Long Gilt suffered a mild setback in 1988 and 1989 as the public sector finances moved from deficit to surplus and the Treasury instituted a " buy-back " programme for long-dated gilts . |
| 11 | And on several nights Madame , looking from O to Boy and from Boy to O , noticed , as several of us had , their remarkable similarity of colouring . |
| 12 | The module will be of interest to a wide range of industries , from agriculture to conservation and hard landscaping . |
| 13 | These are both educational and fun days and all ages , from primary to junior and senior schools have already booked their places . |
| 14 | He was young and a butterfly , flitting from branch to branch and all the time climbing . |
| 15 | ’ Denying to Louise that he is vain ( December 9th , 1852 ) , he distinguishes between Pride and Vanity : ‘ Pride is a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . |
| 16 | Pride is one thing : a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . ’ |
| 17 | He swung himself down easily from branch to branch and landed lightly on the tussocky grass , drawing his sword . |
| 18 | For another , many of the genes carried by plasmids — such as those specifying resistance to the antibiotics kanamycin or penicillin — are flanked by special DNA which enables them to jump from plasmid to chromosome and back , or from one plasmid to another . |
| 19 | In many polygynous species reproductive success varies from hour to hour and day to day and this may cause variation in IRS or DRS to overestimate variation in SRS and LRS . |
| 20 | In later years many of the canals became linked by rail to goods yards where transhipment of materials from rail to canal and vice versa could take place . |
| 21 | When she again took up Between in 1967 she decided to change the gender of the main character from male to female and ‘ it suddenly worked ’ ( 1990c:32 ) . |
| 22 | The actual number of Greater London boroughs controlled by each party naturally varies from election to election and is strongly affected by the national political climate . |
| 23 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 24 | It is a very short leap from euphoria to despair and back again . |
| 25 | In other words , the assumption is that the transformation from money-capital to commodity-capital and back to money-capital again will find no external barriers , other than the market . |
| 26 | After four years as a VAT control officer at Customs and Excise , Parkin decided to turn from gamekeeper to poacher and joined Arthur Andersen in 1986 . |
| 27 | They crawl from hair to hair and look rather like brown greenfly . |
| 28 | His determination to impress Joan , to win her , made him even more tongue-tied ; his usual conversational gambit was to shift from foot to foot and laugh a great deal . |
| 29 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 30 | As it was , he stood in front of Lucie 's chair leaping from foot to foot and gesticulating wildly . |