Example sentences of "ranging [prep] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs were affiliated to organizations ranging from church to political party . |
| 2 | This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment . |
| 3 | The privatization of industries , ranging from Britoil to British Gas , British Telecom and British Steel , has been a great success , partly because they have touched a public nerve , but also because the share issues have usually been made at below market value . |
| 4 | Exercises ranging from yoga to vigorous swimming engage the body 's muscles in regular and rhythmic movements . |
| 5 | The sum is likely to be amended in parishes ranging from £300.38 in High Coniscliffe to £303.81 in Piercebridge . |
| 6 | Definitive reference , ranging from encyclopedias to special interests . |
| 7 | The houses , whose front doors opened directly on the street , were a mixed bag , ranging from cottages to substantial dwellings of some distinction , originally built for Packet skippers . |
| 8 | In Edinburgh this week , the moral issues raised by genetic engineering — ranging from work on human genes to developing non-softening tomatoes — are to be raised at an event sponsored by the Church of Scotland . |
| 9 | A three-day trade mission of 16 US semiconductor companies arranged by the US Department of Commerce opened in Tokyo yesterday : 60 representatives from the firms , ranging from engineers to chief executives , will hold 150 face-to-face meetings with 27 Japanese chip users to explore new business opportunities . |
| 10 | Around 150 Italian works of art will be shown by around forty dealers and galleries , ranging from antiquities to nineteenth-century paintings , about with prices from £500 to over £1 million . |
| 11 | She does not provide dinner , but there are thirteen eating places within two miles , ranging from pubs to classy restaurants . |
| 12 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 13 | Prior to the mid-nineteenth century , magazines such as Youth 's Monthly Visitor aimed their moral homilies at an undefined audience covering both sexes and ranging from children to young adults . |
| 14 | It is clear , however , that a variety of conditions affecting the extrinsic nerves and the central nervous system may result in tachygastria , ranging from children with cerebral palsy , to motion sickness , anorexia nervosa , and vatotomy . |
| 15 | A wide range of information has been supplied , ranging from details about local walks right through to the opportunities for work in rural areas . |
| 16 | There are over one hundred different species to choose from , ranging from insects to large animals . |
| 17 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 18 | Although she 'd helped herself only sparingly from the selection ranging from herring in various preparations through varieties of other seafood to choices of pâtés and cuts of prime meat accompanied by several types of bread and salads , she 'd found the meal delicious and satisfying . |
| 19 | Platelet activating factor is one of the most potent lipid mediators discovered , which exerts a wide span of cellular and tissular effects ranging from degranulation of inflammatory cells to mucosal ulceration and necrosis . |
| 20 | We tested six tents over a period of three months in weather ranging from sunshine to horizontal rain . |
| 21 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 22 | The survey , of 587 accountancy firms ranging in size from sole practitioners to 20-partner firms , shows that many are taking positive steps to fight back against the recession . |
| 23 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |
| 24 | Many were newspaper cuttings , ranging in content from dietetic hints to stock market forecasts . |
| 25 | Antarctic surface water forms a layer 70–200 m thick , ranging in temperature from freezing point ( -1° C ; to -1.8° C ) to 3–4°C and in salinity from almost fresh to 34.5ppt , or slightly higher over the continental shelf . |