Example sentences of "[pron] from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Webb 's finest hour came in 1984 when , with Derby just days away from going out of business with debts of £1.5 million , he promoted himself from managing director to chairman . |
| 2 | In the first place Braque had detached himself from visual appearances to a much greater extent than Cézanne , who while he was obviously very much aware ( if only instinctively ) of the purely formal or abstract side of painting , relied nevertheless , in his still lifes and landscapes , on an exhaustive study of the ‘ motif ’ as his point of departure , although it is worth mentioning that in his articles Emile Bernard had suggested that Cézanne 's vision ‘ was much more in his brain than in his eye ’ . |
| 3 | The other advantages of a freezer are that it enables you to store food that can be brought out in an emergency when you have unexpected guests , or to store certain foods in bulk , such as bread , to save you from frequent trips to the shops . |
| 4 | A two season bag will take you from late spring to early autumn , and a three-season bag can be used for all but winter conditions . |
| 5 | Even if the full Moon in Libra and at the mid- heaven point of your solar chart on the 10th brings about a complete break from the past , both professionally and personally , it will remove the dead wood which has prevented you from living life to its very fullest . |
| 6 | A cable car takes you from nearby Ehrwald to the Zugspitzkamm station at 9,203 feet which has been partly blasted out of the rock . |
| 7 | Jonah ( portrayed as everything from muscular faun to bearded elder ) has an iconography whose pedigree and variety would make Noah envious . |
| 8 | Then why not listen to DC Talk ( the ‘ DC ’ stands for ‘ decent Christian ’ ) rapping about everything from divine providence to abortion ( ‘ Yo , children can live without it ’ ) . |
| 9 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |
| 10 | There are three restaurants , serving everything from traditional American to Japanese fare . |
| 11 | These , as we now know , involve everything from environmental considerations to limits on the working hours of employees . |
| 12 | The company is a leader in yacht insurance in the UK , covering everything from small dinghies to large luxury yachts . |
| 13 | They coaxed everything from pygmy mice to snakes to cheetahs into running on a treadmill while wearing an oxygen mask . |
| 14 | To display their collection of everything from Islamic ceramics to the Russian Avant-garde they have made substantial long-term loans as well as opening their own museums . |
| 15 | In theory , the UN 's definition of human rights , as expressed in 1948 , embraces everything from arbitrary arrest to an adequate standard of living . |
| 16 | In the 1890s Michael Marks , the firm 's founder , put wooden platforms behind his market stalls to keep salesgirls ' feet warm ; these days the company pays for everything from in-house dentists to local community projects . |
| 17 | There 's been everything from violent sieges to people walking around with shooters . |
| 18 | Victim Support , our Charity of the Year 1992 ( patron , HRH The Princess Royal ) , is an independent charity that offers victims of crime everything from practical advice to a shoulder to cry on . |
| 19 | It was an opportunity to raise concerns about everything from external examiners to the assessment of modular courses , from a pamphlet on mature students to course regulations . |
| 20 | Though according to Sue Brodie , who plays full back for Scotland , the women have suffered everything from dislocated shoulders to broken ankles in league matches . |
| 21 | ‘ Right , let's be having you then , ’ he said , and proceeded to lead his recruits — carryying everything from battered suitcases to brown paper parcels — through the streets of Edinburgh at the double , only to be sure that the locals did n't realise just how undisciplined this rabble really was . |
| 22 | To be applied to everything from religious observance to sweeping the kitchen floor . |
| 23 | Having written all of these clever , fresh and almost poetic sounding lyrics ; which are backed by everything from African percussions to Rock guitar , Toyah can be satisfied with having produced such an innovative album . |
| 24 | A man who liked to dress for every occasion … and with a fascinating taste for everything from Japanese culture to the history of the bicycle . |
| 25 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 26 | NEXT MONTH Designs on floors — everything from handmade tiles to fitted carpets |
| 27 | Children can be the most cruel of all , and there has been everything from physical fights to slanging matches . ’ |
| 28 | So animal-watching covers everything from microscopic creatures to mammalian giants . |
| 29 | We used to have long discussions and arguments about everything from radio-controlled models to religion , and from parapsychology to physics . |
| 30 | Really , the range of deviance that gets linked with S&M ( everything from suburban catwomen to lesbian ‘ chicks with dicks ’ , from gay men attending workshops on scat to the body piercing crowd ) is too diverse , in some cases too much of a genuine underground , to be tied down to a single political reading . |