Example sentences of "ranged from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They ranged from a tiny mouse , with lifelike whiskers and a twitchy nose , to a metre-high Pied Piper , whose grin was so wickedly triumphant that she almost expected to see the children of Hamlin following behind .
2 Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant .
3 Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics .
4 This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development .
5 These ranged from the mighty Rutland and Ampair models to the Forgen , an entirely different design of wind generator which has deeper vanes that rotate round a vertical shaft .
6 Punishments ranged from the formal reprimand to outright dismissal .
7 Her diets ranged from the high protein steak and salad to the Hay diet , which cuts out eating starch and protein at the same time .
8 They ranged from the modest puffing of his travel book by a visiting American author on Radio 4 to the screening of pre-launch films about the making of big budget movies such as Gandhi .
9 These ranged from an economic blockade of Lithuania in April 1990 [ see pp. 37360-62 ] , and violent military intervention in the Baltics in January 1991 [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , through a continuing " battle of the laws " with the RFSFR , to efforts to mediate over or exploit inter-ethnic conflicts within and between seceding republics ( such as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the South Ossetia dispute in Georgia — see p. 37971 ) .
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