Example sentences of "from the [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 There 's also a baseline heavy enough to hang half a dozen DJs from , and a funk aesthetic that you can currently detect in everyone from the Sandals to Galliano , Brand New Heavies to D-Influence .
2 One cold evening , Seb returned from the cottage to Handley Farm along lanes , the banks of which were already glistening with frost .
3 You dip down the drive from the Yoxford to Peasenhall road across an ornamental bridge and on towards this plain and golden Greek Revival house .
4 Struggling to survive the discouragement of another rebuff , Vincent walked on foot from the Borinage to Brussels to plead his case with the Reverend Pietersen , one of the more sympathetic members of the committee which had just sacked him .
5 Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War .
6 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 .
7 He looked from the manuscript to Robert and back again .
8 In the mid-1680s Coxe began to acquire property in West New Jersey , and in 1687 he purchased the proprietary rights of the province from the heirs to Edward Byllynge .
9 This is a friendly , well-run hotel 150 yards from the cablecar to Taormina town and convenient for the beach .
10 I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time .
11 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 . ’
12 I used the time by moving from the Temple to Peel Square — not a formidable job , for it required only a suitcase and a taxi .
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 Altogether the Grand Trunk Canal had five tunnels and seventy-six locks on its ninetythree mile course from the Mersey to Shardlow , near which it entered the Trent .
16 Mass lobbying , research and monitoring lorries are among the tactics planned in a campaign that would unite various communities , groups , and more than 6,000 petitioners from the Dales to Teesside .
17 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 .
18 His lively stroll from the Chartists to Kinnock ( To Build a New Jerusalem : the Labour Movement from the 1880s to the 1990s , Michael Joseph , £18.99 ) is almost always affectionate towards its subjects .
19 Was the invitation from the Board to Knighton to become a director unanimous ?
20 Uncontrolled population growth , the continuing deterioration of the environment , the economic depression in the major capitalist countries , the shift of economic power from the US to Japan and the European Community ( and particularly to Germany ) and the growing tensions between these three centres , the increasing disparity of wealth between the poorer developing countries and the industrial nations , are all potent sources of social dislocation and instability .
21 Japan currently sends irradiated uranium imported from the US to Sellafield in Britain and Le Havre in France for processing into plutonium .
22 And one of Arrow 's pilots , Jacobo Bolivar , was one of the three principals of Sur International , the company which flew weapons from the US to Iran for Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North in 1985 .
23 THE reader who brought his children from the US to Britain to be educated is talking nonsense to say our schools are on a par with those in the Third World .
24 FOR THE first time , to his knowledge , the forces of law ‘ n ’ order have been tampering with items mailed from the US to Maurice Frankel , director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information .
25 Paskevich soon moved from the Caucasus to Warsaw , but other proconsuls continued his work .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 By the road from the ferry to Raasay House , small neat houses appear , bright colourful gardens , attentively tended , gleaming in the sunshine .
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