Example sentences of "from a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 2 | A former world karate champion , Hashim Baddridine , also Sudanese , was charged with the attack , which had reportedly left Turabi badly injured from a blow to the side of his head . |
| 3 | She 'd died from a blow to her neck . |
| 4 | William Temple ran a mission on the Blackpool sands , preaching from a tub to the buckets and spades . |
| 5 | Sudden shifts from a major to a minor key or vice versa , on the other hand , are readily apparent to the ear . |
| 6 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 7 | Are employment figures alone sufficient to infer that the economy has shifted from a goods to a service economy , that the economy has moved from an industrial stage to a post-industrial stage . |
| 8 | Ingres Japan has scored a coup with Canon Sales Ltd , with the decision by Canon Inc to move its sales management system from a mainframe to a Unix system running Ingres . |
| 9 | but can not sustain a courtly approach with the articulacy of Wilekin : line 23 , quoted here , could easily come from a prayer to the Virgin Mary , and the clerk soon concludes by a sacrilegious plea in Marian terms : ( " For the love of the mother of heaven , change your mind and hear my plea ! " ) |
| 10 | ‘ Thus our membership varies from a 17-year-old to a retired company director and we want to attract even more employees to join our ranks . ’ |
| 11 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 12 | As the rotation accelerated , the aircraft would swing outwards , from a wing-level to a steeply banked attitude , with more cable being gradually paid out until , having attained flying speed , it could be ‘ released smoothly under its own power , without fear of stalling ’ . |
| 13 | Literature , apart from a reference to the Liverpool poets , is excluded from his working-class pupils ' experience of English in school . |
| 14 | Extrapolating from a reference to a " heap in the mud " , Hemingway foregrounds the inclement weather through a series of references to rain and wet conditions . |
| 15 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 16 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 17 | And a secondment could be any length of time from a day to a week or more . |
| 18 | The journey to Mantes , for each of them , was cut from a day to a couple of hours . |
| 19 | As I see it , the ‘ passivity ’ is in one sense a consequence of the decision to write the sonnets from a man to a man — as Sonnet 20 made clear , no ‘ activity ’ is contemplated . |
| 20 | ‘ More like Beorn , ’ he said , ‘ the skin-changer in The Hobbit who could turn from a man to a bear . ’ |
| 21 | They did n't ask how they get from a man to a woman not that knows anyway but |
| 22 | The college has a number of resident post-graduate students who are there for periods varying from a year to three years . |
| 23 | He called on Ministers to come clean over secret proposals to cut the unemployment benefit period from a year to six months . |
| 24 | In the same broadcast , Erman announced government proposals to cut armed forces numbers from an estimated 75,000 to 55,000 and to reduce the period of conscription from a year to six months , although in the current year the number of conscripts called up was expected to be doubled . |
| 25 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 26 | My ultimate desire — as it was with Seve and all my pros — was the perfect bag ; catching every ball without letting one hit the ground , from a wedge to a driver . |
| 27 | ‘ How far are we from a descent to the street ? ’ he asked Jotan . |
| 28 | The benefit of getting it there early and a little leap word which takes you from a feature to a benefit |
| 29 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 30 | What they are saying , in effect , is change from a link-leger to a running paternoster , for whenever the lead is leading the hook it is a paternoster . |