Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 2 | One cold evening , Seb returned from the cottage to Handley Farm along lanes , the banks of which were already glistening with frost . |
| 3 | Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cumidge ’ ) is a quiet , picturesque community clustered round a bend in the River Parrett as it meanders on its way from the sea to Bridgwater Docks . |
| 4 | Scurrying aft , I had a fast shave , using the pink slime from the soap-dispenser to lather my face . |
| 5 | He looked from the manuscript to Robert and back again . |
| 6 | This is a friendly , well-run hotel 150 yards from the cablecar to Taormina town and convenient for the beach . |
| 7 | The immediate aim was to open the roads to and from the temple to untouchables , but it proved to be a symbol of the movement to eliminate discrimination against untouchables in all spheres of life and a pointer to the need to abolish the caste system . |
| 8 | The conquest of the north decisively tilted the scales in Franco 's favour ; quite apart from the damage to Republican morale , it brought the Nationalists raw materials — iron ore and coal — and industrial capacity vital to the prosecution of modern warfare . |
| 9 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 10 | By channelling water away from the structure to drainage channels the board renders any granular fill layer unnecessary . |
| 11 | Whilst the natural flow of the design development must be from the top to bottom of Figure I.l , due to the iterative nature of design no truly sequential relationships can be inferred from their order . |
| 12 | Corruption , and the way that it extends from the top to bottom of society in American cities , is the subject of ‘ City of Hope ’ , John Sayles ' new film that was shown at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in America and in the market at Cannes . |
| 13 | The masher turned his attention from the girl to Neil and moved towards him menacingly . |
| 14 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 15 | After deductions for loans from the subsidiary to Cabra , and for the stake in the Fulham ground , the net cost to Chelsea would be about £10m . |
| 16 | Information on a computer disc a database giving details of the crew of a spaceship , or a message transmitted through space from the crew to settlers on a distant planet . |
| 17 | A linear line charge of pl coulomb per unit length extends from the origin to z = ∞ . |
| 18 | Finance Act 1981 ( now TA 1988 , s740 ) has not changed that fundamental point although charges can arise in respect of payments out from the trust to beneficiaries . |
| 19 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 20 | Collias — from the north to Orange or Avignon via the A7 autoroute from Lyon . |
| 21 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 22 | Was the invitation from the Board to Knighton to become a director unanimous ? |
| 23 | But , in the early days of production on the site , an order sent off from the mill to London was accidentally read and returned as tweed . |
| 24 | This excerpt from the preface to Women and Media in the Asian Context gives a flavour of the book , which is published jointly by WACC and People in Communication , a group of communication organisations based in the Philippines . |
| 25 | That is perhaps why he was still sensitive about his public reputation — an essay in Twentieth Century on him by Edward Dahlberg , and a book by Northrop Frye , both incurred his displeasure ; he insisted also that certain lines about his alleged anti-semitism should be removed from the preface to Wyndham Lewis 's selected letters . |
| 26 | Apart from the preface to Aden Arabie , both his autobiography , Les Mots , and autobiographical fiction , " La Semence et le scaphandre " , centre on the Sartre-Nizan relationship . |
| 27 | The once-important road from the ferry to Lochcarron village is now quiet and demoted ; it joins the A.896 from Shieldaig at the entrance to the village , beyond which , with the new loch now behind , a new and important road junction is reached . |
| 28 | By the road from the ferry to Raasay House , small neat houses appear , bright colourful gardens , attentively tended , gleaming in the sunshine . |
| 29 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 30 | She was gradually becoming conscious of aches and pains caused by the long , tiring flight and the horrendously bumpy drive from the airport to Marigot Bay . |