Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 2 | Headteachers are paid from £23,000 to £50,000 . |
| 3 | Frozen chicken thighs are reduced from £2.68 to £1.98 for 3lb and Kiwi fruit are 9p instead of 15p each . |
| 4 | The knowledge that words are read from left to right , and from the top of the page to the bottom . |
| 5 | Bedrooms are airconditioned from June to September . |
| 6 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 7 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 8 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 9 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 10 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 11 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 12 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 13 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 14 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 15 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |
| 16 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 17 | the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time . |
| 18 | At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation . |
| 19 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 20 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 21 | In Mr. Harper 's case , less than two years ago , his rent was doubled from £12,000 to £24,000 . |
| 22 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 23 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 24 | Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice . |
| 25 | WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol . |
| 26 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 27 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 28 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 29 | I stood on the winner 's rostrum swathed in the Union Jack , the photographers ' light bulbs flashing , the crowd clapping , cheering , other Union Jacks being waved from side to side . |
| 30 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |