Example sentences of "from [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's other concern was to dislodge the Germans from their dominating positions on the ridge of high ground running from Westroosbeke to Broodseinde before winter set in . |
| 2 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 3 | Migrating from pasture to pasture with their herds of horses , cattle and other animals , they lived in a type of portable home ( ger ) consisting of a circular framework covered with felt ( which the Russians incorrectly called yuna ) . |
| 4 | The shift from description to prescription in this formulation is interesting . |
| 5 | The final section of the book , " Form and function " , contains a variety of approaches to the problem of the switch from description to interpretation in the analysis of texts . |
| 6 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 7 | But they can not walk from reserve to reserve without going through cities . |
| 8 | On the eastern extremity of the county , the Royal Military Canal was built in 1804 from Rye to Shorncliffe in Kent ; its function was not for transport but to provide a moat across the flat marshlands where invasion was most expected . |
| 9 | Its capture , storage , and use is already very much electronically-based in many businesses from banking to transportation to retailing , and is becoming more so . |
| 10 | Occasionally , responsibility within the SPR system is shifted from user to user without any action being taken . |
| 11 | Occasionally , responsibility within the SPR system is transferred from user to user without any action being taken . |
| 12 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 13 | Poising acrobatically upon one leg then the other , Meh'Lindi proceeded to spray her body from toe to neck with black synthetic skin . |
| 14 | Closely allied to foxgloves they carry their spikes of tubular flowers for many weeks as the individual blooms open in succession from base to tip of the spikes . |
| 15 | He can usher you from chaos to comfort in mere moments . |
| 16 | GHI verdict : The clip-on grater and citrus press allow food to drop straight into the jug , avoiding spills and waste , and the jug and bowl can be taken directly from freezer to microwave for reheating . |
| 17 | The British food industry responds to consumer demands for meals that can go from freezer to microwave to table within minutes . |
| 18 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 19 | These include the abolition of selection at 12 years ( the age of transfer from primary to secondary in Scotland ) which gave all pupils formal access to certificate courses , and the raising of the school leaving age to 16 , which prevented pupils leaving school before the stage of first public examinations . |
| 20 | from Working-Set to table in Main Database archive . |
| 21 | In this room , the tree has pride of place , decorated with purple , red and gold baubles with strings of pearl beads and silver cord garlands draped from branch to branch for a touch of elegance . |
| 22 | He led them towards what he called the monkey walk , where large cages of chattering inmates jumped about from branch to branch of trees and bushes in the enclosure . |
| 23 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 24 | The whole thing seethed , illusion and allusion swinging from branch to branch like gibbons in the treetops . |
| 25 | In conclusion , our study shows a significant , dose dependent change from absorption to secretion of water and electrolytes in the human jejunum induced by cholera toxin . |
| 26 | Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage . |
| 27 | The eroded material is usually moved away by the action of longshore drift ( see below ) , which , in England , moves material mainly from north to south on the east coast and from west to east on the south coast . |
| 28 | Crucially , it was air reconnaissance that informed the Allies , on 3 September , of Kluck 's change of direction from west to east of Paris . |
| 29 | It was always in motion , in waves and pulses , moving from west to east in the atmosphere . |
| 30 | Increasing flow of waste from west to east in Germany |