Example sentences of "[coord] from [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a fumbling towards the shift of men and activity from South Wales to the Slough Trading Estate or from Scotland to the Ford factory at Dagenham which symbolized the economic geography of the later period of his power . |
| 2 | This is not surprising , given the difficulties encountered in developing them , but it does limit the ease with which we can generalize from one experiment to another or from experiments to the real world . |
| 3 | She knew , from reading and from subjection to the media , that she was not alone in her distress : the world was full of nutty housewives , many of them probably just round the corner , since she lived in a district famed countrywide for feminism and madness . |
| 4 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 5 | Although the DSS is able to assist in meeting some of the costs of residents , the larger part of the costs are met from welfare funds raised by the Association , and from donations to the Home . |
| 6 | And from Oxford to the West End … the musical that 's a whale of a hit . |
| 7 | Pasdun Korale , a relatively lightly populated division which bordered Sabaragamuva , had served as a transit area for the illicit cattle trade between the Southern and Western Provinces , and from Sabaragamuva to the Western Province . |
| 8 | This marked trend , from ‘ inflexible ’ to ‘ flexible ’ , and from manufacturing to the service sector , will continue , according to a study published in 1986 by the Institute of Manpower Studies . |
| 9 | Thomas Stanford , in his book Leaves from a Madeira Garden , states ( with regard to the changing climate and scenery ) that in Madeira one can travel in the space of an hour from a sub-tropical region to the Riviera , from the Riviera to Bournemouth , from Bournemouth to Caernarvonshire , and from Caernarvonshire to the Alps . |
| 10 | Within a hundred years Islam was " a mighty empire stretched form the Punjab to the Pyrenees and from Samarkand to the Sahara , " In the authority of the Shahs . |
| 11 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 12 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 13 | In 1907 George Sims , a journalist , wrote of women in London 's East End : ‘ From home to the pawnshop and from pawnshop to the public house is the conventional Monday morning trip of a vast number of poor married women … |