Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But economic reform is passing power from central government to the provinces , and from repressive institutions to individual enterprises . |
| 2 | Her bust has reduced from 39½ inches to 35 inches ( a loss of 4½ inches ) , her waist from 35 inches to 28 inches ( 7 inches ) her hips from 43 inches to 37½ inches ( 5½ inches ) and her widest part ( around the lower hips and thighs ) had reduced by 7 inches from 45 inches to 38 inches . |
| 3 | According to circumstances , other issues , from agricultural policy to international crime , may predominate . |
| 4 | The nucleation time was prolonged from 1.5 days to 12.2 and 13.2 days after the addition 2.5 µmol of synthetic lecithins . |
| 5 | Bedfellow of the road is the railway line that runs from European Russia to the desert lands of Kazakhstan . |
| 6 | Additional relief was provided by a sustained programme of migration from European Russia to Siberia . |
| 7 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 8 | At the core of the Chicago School 's analysis were the moves of immigrants from European societies to American cities and , once established in a town such as Chicago , the successful households progressing from the inner urban areas to the suburbs . |
| 9 | In early January the Libyan government transfered assets from European banks to Middle East banks in anticipation of the imposition by European countries of new economic sanctions . |
| 10 | Mostly using open canoes , the tour passes from Alpine gorges to the Paduan plain on water up to grade 2 . |
| 11 | Evian water takes 15 years to filter down from Alpine snows to the town spring . |
| 12 | Compared with the compensation payments introduced during the first stage of price liberalization , these went up from 750 lei to 2,100 lei per month for workers , and from 400 lei to 1,470 lei for pensioners , while there were also increases in child benefits , maternity benefits and student grants . |
| 13 | He devotes one chapter of the book to each of these trends : 1 ) from an industrial society to an information society ; 2 ) from forced technology to high tech/high touch ( this typical jargon describes the increasing importance of human , social and spiritual responses to advanced technology ) ; 3 ) from national economic concerns to world economic concerns ; 4 ) from short-term thinking to long-term thinking and planning ; 5 ) from centralisation to decentralisation ; 6 ) from institutional help to self-help ; 7 ) from representative democracy to participatory democracy ; 8 ) from hierarchies to networking ; 9 ) from north to south ( within the United States ) ; and 10 ) from either-or to multiple options . |
| 14 | The low lands were patched with hayfields at every stage of readiness , from bleached yellow to ferny green , and across the coloured surfaces people moved as though they were stitching and knitting at its texture , arms pulling on rakes , backs stooped under burdens on their way to the steadings . |
| 15 | The traditional compost for gardeners made from sterilised top-soil to which grit , sand and fertilisers have been added . |
| 16 | From clogged skies to choked motorways , from Clapham Junction to the Marchioness , Mr Prescott has been Labour 's voice of protest on an issue that has moved to the heart of the ‘ quality of life ’ agenda increasingly dominating the political agenda . |
| 17 | Systems are available from 75 gallons to 350 gallons . |
| 18 | Based on MIPS Technologies Inc 's R3002A microprocessor , the ES servers are configured with from two to 24 CPUs and are rated at from 32 MIPS to 768 MIPS . |
| 19 | By directing funds from low-interest source to higher-interest outlets , interest arbitrage , like money broking , should help to remove anomalous interest rate differentials . |
| 20 | We offer you our nation 's history — from prehistoric and Roman landmarks to medieval castles and abbeys , from stately homes to working industrial monuments . |
| 21 | We offer you our nation 's history — from prehistoric and Roman landmarks to medieval castles and abbeys , from stately homes to working industrial monuments . |
| 22 | We offer you our nation 's history — from prehistoric and Roman landmarks to medieval castles and abbeys , from stately homes to working industrial monuments . |
| 23 | Movements between tenures , whether from tied cottages to council houses or from council houses to owner-occupation , is a particularly important reason for movements between villages ( Dunn et al . |
| 24 | It was a conversation with the manager in his office that completed Goram 's transformation from outstanding prospect to the reliable goalkeeper now being spoken of as without peer in Britain . |
| 25 | In both cases the soliloquy conveys important self-reflection , a move from light-hearted banter to serious self-revelation that is made with even more significance by Cressida , after the exit of Pandarus — the spirit of prose at its most banal ( Troilus and Cressida , I.ii.281 ) — and by Hal , after the exit of Falstaff ( 1 Henry IV , I.ii.195 ) . |
| 26 | The contents may vary from technical advice to general policy pronouncements . |
| 27 | Effectively the spreadsheet consists of a large , anywhere from 65,000 cells to 2 million or more , sheet of squared paper . |
| 28 | At earlier times , the move from full-time work to full-time retirement , through a transitional process of gradual movement of individuals through lighter and part-time employment , typically coincided with the biological transition from fitness to dependency . |
| 29 | In recent times , however , most people have come to experience and to expect an abrupt transition from full-time work to full-time retirement at an age when many of them feel reasonably fit . |
| 30 | Such schemes were an attempt to accommodate the desire of many older people to continue in at least part-time work and to find new ways of continuing the older tradition of gradual transition from full-time work to full retirement . |