Example sentences of "from [noun sg] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closely allied to foxgloves they carry their spikes of tubular flowers for many weeks as the individual blooms open in succession from base to tip of the spikes . |
| 2 | He led them towards what he called the monkey walk , where large cages of chattering inmates jumped about from branch to branch of trees and bushes in the enclosure . |
| 3 | In conclusion , our study shows a significant , dose dependent change from absorption to secretion of water and electrolytes in the human jejunum induced by cholera toxin . |
| 4 | Crucially , it was air reconnaissance that informed the Allies , on 3 September , of Kluck 's change of direction from west to east of Paris . |
| 5 | As so defined , this ground for interception was wide enough to cover just about anything , from murder to breach of the peace . |
| 6 | In other words a serious crime amounts to anything from murder to obstruction of the highway , the latter being committed where large numbers of people gather to march and demonstrate . |
| 7 | One may perhaps contrast this with the other common mental illness of old age , depression , in which loss , in many forms , from bereavement to loss of role and status , may reasonably be thought to play a part . |
| 8 | One of the more remarkable features of this project is the speed with which it has progressed from conception to completion of construction . |
| 9 | One might ask why this sudden change occurred , and whether there was a change of attitude by Gillray , perhaps even a conversion pushing him from critic to defender of monarchy . |
| 10 | The first glimpse of Montserrat is always deeply moving as it begins to rise like a vast ragged curtain on the evening horizon , mysterious and slightly sinister in its grandeur as it looms ever nearer in Goya-like menace , shifting from side to side of the bus until it vanishes behind us . |
| 11 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 12 | The tall slender piers support a high vault and there is no triforium or clerestory wall to obstruct the vista from end to end and from side to side of the church , only a forest of delicate piers . |
| 13 | From side to side of the field , the army buzzed , like a harp strung with horse-hair , and the sun rose higher ahead above the black forest of pine mixed with alder and birch that closed the battleground at its far end , and within which the Northumbrian army was waiting . |
| 14 | It is characterised by a tightly controlled method of weaving , where a shuttle passing from side to side of the loom between the warp threads creates loop pile or fine velvet carpeting that has a high density with a very smooth regular surface . |
| 15 | Waves of this same hair swept around the back of Gyggle 's head , from coast to coast of his oval face . |
| 16 | The government is now reported to be planning measures to limit peat extraction through direct purchase of threatened sites , and management agreements to encourage landowners to switch from exploitation to restoration of peat bogs . |
| 17 | But no desert when it comes to wild life , for this is the Flow Country where David Bellamy brought to popular attention how deep he could sink as he cavorted from tuft to tuft of floating bog . |
| 18 | As in his previous adventure , the weed helped save him ; he made his way laboriously from tuft to tuft of the blackened reeds that thrust their way through the mud and ice . |
| 19 | The by-election swing from Conservative to Labour of 21 per cent was the largest such since 1935 , and the result represented only the 13th Labour by-election gain from the Conservatives since 1945 ( the most recent being the Vale of Glamorgan in May 1989 — see p. 36740 ) . |
| 20 | For example , a rate of seven circuits per second means a distance from hive to food of about 400 yards to an Apis mellifera carnica , 330 yards to an Apis mellifera mellifera , or 260 yards to an Apis mellifera ligustica . |
| 21 | Contrast the same scene on the neck of a contemporary Attic jar ( fig. 9 ) , where the figures are conventionally coloured black or white and reach from bottom to top of the picture . |
| 22 | An upbeat message emerged from economist Mark Brown at stockbroker UBS Phillips & Drew who said his firm had switched from seller to buyer of domestic equities at these levels . |
| 23 | The wrath of her disappointment had been the instrument of his education , which had taken place in a perpetual rush from site to site of a hastily amalgamated three-school comprehensive , the Aneurin Bevan school , combining Glasdale Old Grammar School , St Thomas à Beckett 's C of E Secondary School and the Clothiers ' Guild Technical Modern School . |
| 24 | Have frightful dream in which Elizabeth Bennett marries Mr Darcy , loses a leg , plays the piano in the nude and is pursued by flock of symbolic sheep from room to room of vast baroque mansion . |
| 25 | One moment we were stationary , the next sliding forward smoothly , the transition from rest to motion of a quarter of a mile of metal achieved as if on silk . |
| 26 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 27 | Row 1 : Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked . |
| 28 | It appears , in fact , that the speed and reliability of a bee 's flower memory at least roughly corresponds to the degree of variability it is likely to encounter among flowers of the same species in nature ( including variation from day to day of an individual blossom ) . |
| 29 | If A Song to David , in which he attempted a new and regular form of the ode , was written on an upswing of creativity at the beginning of a psychotic episode , and the psalms translation made during convalescence afterwards , Jubilate Agno is particularly important because its internal dates strongly suggest it was composed during his confinement , and from day to day of his illness , during the period 27 July to 30 January 1763 , just before his release . |
| 30 | He died 6 March 1876 at Highfield House , Mossley , an example of mobility from operative to captain of industry , spurred on by poverty , aided by good luck , and displaying the full range of Smilesian virtues . |