Example sentences of "from [art] [noun pl] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seventies , after a rise in the birth-rate from the midfifties to the mid-sixties , creating a ‘ bulge ’ in the school and student population in the 1970s , there was a gradual decline in the birthrate in the seventies . |
| 2 | A large extended family tribe , all brand new Barbour-outfitted from the boots to the hats , looked almost threateningly military and morose by comparison . |
| 3 | Also there was a marked tendency for all efficient personnel , especially Communists , to move quickly up the hierarchy from the villages to the guberniia centres . |
| 4 | The drive to an industrialised Britain brought many people from the villages to the towns , and alerted the authorities to the widespread presence of mentally handicapped people who had previously been contained within farming communities and cared for by their families . |
| 5 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 6 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 7 | Furthermore , these giant corporations possess such wealth and power that they not only affect our lives , limbs , health , and property from the forceps to the grave , but they also bend the political democratic process in such a way that their interests are often prioritized over those of the electorate , consumers , employees , and shareholders . |
| 8 | However , rare inelastic collisions may also occur , resulting in the transfer of specific vibrational quanta of energy from the particles to the molecules . |
| 9 | Mr Browning was no less solicitous but she read exasperation in his advice to turn from the Gospels to the Psalms , ‘ which may have a calming influence ’ . |
| 10 | Many canal companies continued independently but , as the rail network grew , passengers and perishable goods traffic together with many bulk cargoes gradually transferred from the canals to the railways . |
| 11 | A boy ran across from the toilets to the drinking fountain in the centre of the playground from which hung an iron cup on a heavy chain . |
| 12 | He used vividly to recall government militia descending on horseback from the hills to the town squares , the heads of partisans dangling from their saddles . |
| 13 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 14 | In addition , the tube(s) carrying sperm from the testicle(s) to the penis might accidentally be cut , which could cause sterility . |
| 15 | When not enough iron is available the amount of haemoglobin in the blood is reduced , leading to a decrease in the amount of oxygen which can be transported from the lungs to the tissues . |
| 16 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 17 | From the cleaners to the executive she sees that everyone has an important part to play , no one is more committed than she is both to the University and her pharmacological research . |
| 18 | Apart from the grants to a local authority over which the Central Government exercise control and such other controls as are provided by legislation , the Central Government is in no stronger a position to take action against the local authority than an individual citizen — both have the same right to go to the courts to prevent illegal expenditure by ‘ relator action ’ at the instance of the Attorney-General of the Crown . |
| 19 | Federal expenditure on administration was 48 billion dinars , and , apart from the grants to the republics and provinces of 60 billion dinars , only 19 billion dinars was used for other purposes . |
| 20 | Outlaws from the forests to the south , grown over-bold ; let them be taken for that , and they might yet make another and a better attempt . |
| 21 | Levi-Strauss ' thesis that marriage is always a contractual arrangement between groups of males and that the principal valuable in marriage is always the bride herself would imply that , on balance , the other valuables , e.g. cattle , jewellery , money , ritual objects , should move from the wife-takers to the wife-givers . |
| 22 | Few would have imagined , a century ago , that so many new jobs could have been created , bearing in mind the growth in the country 's overall population as well as the migration from the farms to the cities . |
| 23 | The tubes through which sperm travel from the testes to the penis are cut or blocked so that sperm can no longer enter the semen that is ejaculated when the man ‘ comes ’ . |
| 24 | In male sterilisation , or vasectomy , the tubes ( the vas deferens ) through which sperm travel from the testes to the penis , are cut or blocked so that sperm can no longer enter the ejaculate ( the fluid released when a man reaches climax ) . |
| 25 | The testes commence production of spermatozoa ( sperm ) and Various other organs begin to produce the fluids which make up the semen , which will carry the sperm from the testes to the urethral opening through which they are discharged during ejaculation ; this is a continuous process and millions of spermatozoa are produced . |
| 26 | The effect of this would have been to transfer responsibility for venue decisions from the magistrates to the prosecution , while preserving the defendant 's right to opt for jury trial . |
| 27 | The answer to the third is that the Criminal Justice Act 1991 introduced new guidelines which can be passed from the magistrates to the social services to ensure that from October this year juveniles can be remanded in custody under certain conditions not previously available to the courts . |
| 28 | Ultimately , this may be best achieved by transferring full responsibility for prisons from the states to the central government , or , if this remains politically unfeasible , by building more federal prisons as ‘ models ’ for the remainder ( an engine of reform in other countries with a similar federal structure ) . |
| 29 | He had travelled across the city from the suburbs to the apartments of the ruling elite . |
| 30 | Food , whether as aid or as normal trade , could not be moved from the ports to the people who needed it . |