Example sentences of "[that] [verb] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved . |
| 2 | To be specific , do Jewish and Arabic readers have comic strips that read from right to left , as their script does ? |
| 3 | By running a marginal operation that staggered from week to week , he was unable to put together a long-term plan for success . |
| 4 | This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year . |
| 5 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 6 | Was it a political Great Fear , a contagion that spread from city to city , village to village ? |
| 7 | There are both negative and positive implications in having the test that vary from individual to individual . |
| 8 | Again , no formal theory of attention is developed and indeed it is unclear that some mechanism other than that involved in abstraction is necessary — the distinctive features of an object or event are likely to be the invariants and the irrelevant aspects those that vary from presentation to presentation . |
| 9 | The directors are probably used to the supernatural events that happen from time to time ; the very fact that the building has connections with the railways has possibly something to do with the old railwayman but in what context I do not know . |
| 10 | It was just one of those odd coincidences that happened from time to time . |
| 11 | It has been proposed that the gravitational force has a short-range component that varies from material to material , with a suggested range of about 10 6 m or less . |
| 12 | The study , commissioned by the Association of County Councils ( ACC ) , discussed the implications of an allocation of responsibilities within a county that varies from district to district depending on its size . |
| 13 | The Commission argues that switching from zero-rating to tax-paid exports would provide the only way of scrapping checks on traders at borders without inviting fraud on a massive scale . |
| 14 | If we want to erect any distinction , it should be between genes that pass from body to body via the orthodox route of sperms or eggs , and genes that pass from body to body via unorthodox , ‘ sideways ’ routes . |
| 15 | If we want to erect any distinction , it should be between genes that pass from body to body via the orthodox route of sperms or eggs , and genes that pass from body to body via unorthodox , ‘ sideways ’ routes . |
| 16 | Via the half-reliable morsels of intelligence that pass from continent to continent along this jungle-drummed , smoke-signalled messageway , it appeared that William the Choco of Santa Fé in Darién was possessed of an unusual link with a great historical moment . |
| 17 | ‘ M'kata was a natural , one of those geniuses that emerge from time to time in the game . |
| 18 | So far we have looked at the consensual influence of television : at influences that varied from time to time but affected all or most citizens at any one time . |
| 19 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 20 | Under the loose sleeve was a red wound that went from elbow to wrist . |
| 21 | These homologies would provide considerable scope for direct extrapolation providing the functions of these brainstem regions are not modified by forebrain structures that differ from group to group . |
| 22 | Even where sediment is recorded , it is frequently in the form of sand waves that move from place to place and do not accumulate . |
| 23 | If science is based on experience , then by what means is it possible to get from the singular statements that result from observation to the universal statements that make up scientific knowledge ? |
| 24 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 25 | There were plenty of conflicting stories about the way he got the scar that ran from temple to chin down the right side of his face . |
| 26 | From here he controlled a web of spies and informers that ran from Madurai to Attock , from the beaches of Malabar to the mangrove swamps of Bengal . |
| 27 | Their view of Karma as a life-giving force that flows from life to life is in every way like the modern physicist 's view of electrons ( electricity ) which they say is not ‘ matter ’ but a ‘ force ’ . |
| 28 | When he dashed into the bathroom Wattling 's face was covered with blood , pouring from a gash that stretched from eye to chin . |
| 29 | By twelve , I had learned how to bargain with the suppliers at Covent Garden while displaying a poker face , later selling the same produce to the customers back in Whitechapel with a grin that stretched from ear to ear . |
| 30 | A problem that arises from time to time is that a new edition of the Ordnance map is published with altered enclosured numbers and often altered enclosures . |