Example sentences of "from [noun prp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe will lead a team of runners from Greenwich to Westminster on April 21 to publicise the launch of ADT Healthquest , a national health and fitness campaign aiming to raise £1m in 1991 for six health-related charities . |
| 2 | If in the exercise of his own capacity to do so he transfers or transmits the opportunity to B with the knowledge or assurance or expectation that the opportunity will consequently pass from B to C without any further act on A's part , he may be said to provide C with the opportunity indirectly . |
| 3 | Kernigan on loan from Middlesbrugh to Charlton at the moment after his display especially under the siege in the first half , surely they 'll want to sign him . |
| 4 | In a wide band of west Africa , from Dakar to Kano including the ‘ sahelian ’ and ‘ sudanian ’ zones , the total population in 1980 was about 30 million at an average of 17 people per square kilometre . |
| 5 | The series by Berg shown in Example 122 was obviously designed to give a lyrical melodic sweep to the melody in the second movement of his Lyric Suite for string quartet : It will be noted that Berg 's series contains three distinct tonal groups : minor chords on D and F , and four notes from G to D within the tonal zone of G. However , tonal factors are less essential to a good melodic series than variety of intervals and memorable interval relationships . |
| 6 | By 1988 the morning-peak load was such as to necessitate a fifteen-minute clockface interval service from Swindon to Paddington between 06.30 and 09.00 ; additionally two services passed through Swindon without stopping . |
| 7 | Right D two how long does it take to go from Ventnor to Swanage in a launch with a speed of eight miles per hour ? |
| 8 | ‘ But I do have a first-class ticket from Cardiff to London in my fist . |
| 9 | Grain went from Rumania to Danzig by sea , all the way round Europe , and still cost 30 per cent less than overland by rail . |
| 10 | what I 'm saying is , you know , you ca n't go from Stirling to Aberdeen in a couple of minutes . |
| 11 | We sailed together from Berbera to Aden in HMS Minto . |
| 12 | The Dunfords moved from Petersfield to Alton in 1940 . |
| 13 | He then published four charts covering the south-west coast from Saltcoats to Whitehaven in Cumberland , before turning to the east coast of Scotland , producing a general chart in 1785 and in May 1786 three separate charts of the same coast . |
| 14 | Among the many projects for which the firm was responsible during Fox 's later years were the Liverpool Overhead Railway ( the first electric elevated city railway in the world ) , the extension from Rugby to London of the Great Central Railway , including its Marylebone terminal , the Great Northern and City tube ( with large tunnels to accommodate standard rolling stock ) , and the ‘ Hampstead tube ’ linking Charing Cross with Golders Green and Highgate ; and , abroad , much of the Cape Government Railways in South Africa , the whole Rhodesia Railways system , including the 500-feet span Victoria Falls arch bridge over the Zambesi river , the Benguela Railway in Angola , and several railways and other works in South America . |
| 15 | The Danube meanders through valley after beautiful valley from Germany to Austria to Hungary . |
| 16 | Around 230 tons of " highly toxic chemicals " have been illegally exported from Germany to Ukraine since the beginning of this year and the German authorities have been aware of the transports , Greenpeace has claimed . |
| 17 | All are listed in Zervos 's fundamental catalogue of the artist 's work and many have travelled widely during the Eighties , from Germany to Japan to London , in touring exhibitions of the collection . |
| 18 | Sister Carmula , Sister Christa and Sister Maria Carmen travelled from Germany to Darlington in November and Sister Margaret from Wynberg in South Africa . |
| 19 | Mr Michael Bates ( C ) , aged 31 , who recently moved from Gateshead to Marton with his wife Carole and sons Matthew , four , and Alexander , two . |
| 20 | He may have been on the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier , 1529–30 . |
| 21 | Other main railway lines which he surveyed and supervised included Inverness to Keith ( 1853–8 ) , Inverness to Wick and Thurso ( 1859–74 ) which , because of exceptional difficulties , was not completed until after his retirement in 1867 , and the Skye line from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh ( 1864–70 ) . |
| 22 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 23 | Is it not a ridiculous situation when the motoring correspondent of The Times ( 30 Jan. ) describes how he intended travelling from Brighton to Birmingham by rail , but found that he could drive for one quarter of the price , despite sole occupancy of a largish estate car ? |
| 24 | In the same edition of The Times , their motor correspondent describes how he considered making the return journey from Brighton to Birmingham by rail , but found that he could drive for one quarter the cost of a second-class fare , despite being the sole occupant of a largish estate car . |
| 25 | The inhabitants of the village … are annoyed and their property and persons endangered by a practice which has prevailed of late years of great numbers of persons resorting from Brighton to Patcham under pretence of a holiday on palm Sunday filling the Ale Houses and Beer Shop , getting intoxicated , becoming riotous and creating disturbances in the village street . |
| 26 | SHEER BEAUTY THAT WILL FASCINATE FROM COWES TO PLYMOUTH TO NEWPORT R.I. ENTER THE WORLD OF WALNUT , SATIN FINISHED ALUMINIUM AND POLISHED MARBLE ON BOARD A FIRST S. MATERIALS CHOSEN FOR THEIR LOOKS AND SUITABILITY FOR THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT . |
| 27 | Lyn Sweeting 's daughter was due to travel from Chelmsford to London for a check up after months of chemotherapy for leukaemia . |
| 28 | cos we called it changed it from Lisa to Anna for mum . |
| 29 | Right so that was C one , C two it is a hundred and fifty miles from Hereford to London by rail Hereford is north of Cheltenham , it 's going up from Cheltenham is Hereford the first train in the morning takes three hours for the journey what 's its average speed ? |
| 30 | On 12 October 1991 BR ran a Railtour from Hereford to Carlisle via the Settle and Carlisle line . |