Example sentences of "from [noun] to [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying upon the sand at a distance of 200 yards [ 180 m ] , their bodies often seem to be a uniform dull chrome yellow , but in reality the entire upper surface of the animal from snout to tail is of a uniform olive green , mottled with the former colour . |
| 2 | From milk to money is but a step . |
| 3 | Support from grandparent' to grandchild is rather more straightforward , although again rather little evidence exists . |
| 4 | From Allexton to Medbourne is only five miles straight across the hills , yet we have passed through a period of some three hundred and fifty years in the history of the landscape . |
| 5 | Keeping the colour going from spring to summer is not always easy , but Jenny and Michael have managed it with the density and variety of planting . |
| 6 | Similarly , one involving transfer from ligand to metal is called a reductive charge-transfer transition . |
| 7 | Whatever the reason , for Scotland to swing even in a small way from Labour to Conservative is remarkable ; and there can be no doubt that the brave decision to put the Unionist case at the centre of the argument has been justified . |
| 8 | During this period , domestic savings rates have fallen significantly ( with some exceptions such as Kenya and Cameroun ) and therefore the inevitable diversion of some aid finance from investment to consumption is accentuating a negative trend , however necessary it may be in years of famine and drought . |
| 9 | The transition from exploitation to management is , however , underpinned by a change in economic attitudes , from those that are based on short-term high returns to those that recognise the need for sustainability in order to achieve long-term ongoing returns . |
| 10 | Therefore , the length of the base line from cusp to cusp is 2π a , where a is the radius of the circle . |
| 11 | This careful bridging from projection to non-projection is yet another skill a teacher needs to acquire . |
| 12 | The transition from child to adult is a sensitive matter to handle on both sides . |
| 13 | Many of us spend much of our working day slouched over office desks , typewriters , computers or other instruments , and our leisure time slumped in front of a television set , while the journey from home to work is usually by some sort of mechanized transport — often in cars which do little to improve our posture . |
| 14 | Certainly , the most of the infant teachers I know take great pains to make sure that it is not traumatic and that the move from home to school is as easy as possible . |
| 15 | Certainly , the most of the infant teachers I know take great pains to make sure that it is not traumatic and that the move from home to school is as easy as possible . |
| 16 | The prohibition of incest is … the fundamental step because of which , by which , but above all in which , the transition from nature to culture is accomplished . |
| 17 | In the last chord the bass is in conflict with all three upper parts , yet this is probably the most tonal-sounding chord , with its resemblance to a chord of E9 : Each of these chords sounds reasonably well , and the harmonic flow from chord to chord is good . |
| 18 | The successful transfer of such experience from teacher to pupil is taken to require a sense of a " community of interest " which " would be felt instinctively and immediately by the pupil " : |
| 19 | The main road from Perugia to Gubbio is curiously known as ‘ pigeon road ’ . |
| 20 | In the eighties , though , everything from pop to advertising is telling us that all the golden ages are located in the past . |
| 21 | This change of emphasis from cash to produce is probably the most difficult mental hurdle . |
| 22 | It measures 28 feet in length and 20 feet in girth. the tail from point to point is 8 feet . |
| 23 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 24 | Discussing the problem , Blackmore ( 1987 ) quotes several sources explaining why handwashing is essential if the transfer of infected material from person to person is to be restricted . |
| 25 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 26 | The transition from backswing to downswing is similar to a stagecoach driver whipping his horse team . |
| 27 | The distance from cape to cape is eighteen leagues [ 62 land miles ; 100 km ] or at most twenty to twenty-two [ 69–76 miles ; 111–122 km ] with the bends of the island coastline . |
| 28 | The normal change from larva to adult is triggered by the larva ceasing production of juvenile hormone . |
| 29 | It is 157 feet high and the amphitheatre from wall to wall is 620 by 513 feet , the largest in existence . |
| 30 | The depth from wall to face is a standard 300 mm ( 12 in ) and widths run from 230 mm ( 9 in ) to 600 mm ( 24in ) for single door cabinets to 1000 mm ( 39 in ) to 1200 mm ( 48 in ) for double door models . |