Example sentences of "range from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 2 | Transport is another area in which the discussion ranged from immediate action to changes only possible in the distant future . |
| 3 | Announcement of the verdict was accompanied by shouts of " Shame ! " by Ostashvili 's supporters ( who ranged from young skinheads to elderly war veterans ) , and banners were unfurled bearing anti-Zionist slogans . |
| 4 | His literary interests were remarkably wide and his expertise ranged from Anglo-Irish writing to Silver Age Latin epigrammatists ; but he published mainly on seventeenth-century comic or satirical dramatists , as his editions of Marston 's Malcontent and Vanbrugh 's Relapse testify . |
| 5 | The code of ethics ranged from strong drink to women of doubtful morals . |
| 6 | In style they ranged from formal talks to intensive workshops and such innovative features as the model classroom to which course participants were invited to return with interested colleagues by appointment to discuss its features with an advisory teacher . |
| 7 | Opinions ranged from outright support to outright opposition , with many respondents expressing concern or seeking information about particular aspects of the application . |
| 8 | This list of companies ranged from local miners to multinational giants . |
| 9 | There are English law cases of the late fifteenth-century for not providing meat , drink , and lodging to a retired father-in-law , while Swedish High Court disputes of two centuries later show grievances ranging from poor food to cursing and physical violence . |
| 10 | Graydon tested out this system by producing a list of some hundreds of UK buyers for the credit insurer with each buyer measured with a risk score ranging from low risk to high risk . |
| 11 | None the less , observers of animal behaviour know that altruistic acts with differing degrees of self-sacrifice are of common occurrence , ranging from parental care to group defence and rescue behaviour to complex forms of co-operation . |
| 12 | The Feoda contains the names of around 1,900 lords and knights , ranging from substantial aristocrats to landless warriors , grouped under the headings of the twenty-six castellanies of Champagne . |
| 13 | The Colonel Commandant of the regiment listed more than 50 errors — ranging from incorrect uniforms to the wrong ammunition . |
| 14 | Instead , priority will be given to developing and testing new products with civilian applications ranging from clean-fuel cars to fibre optics and supercomputer networks to improve communications and information access . |
| 15 | Indeed , free-electron laster ( FEL ) is a generic name for a family of devices ranging from millimetre-wave generators to potential X-ray lasers , whose only common feature is their apparent lack of a conventional laser gain medium . |
| 16 | There were , perhaps , 30,000 guerilleros ranging from small bands to Mina 's organized group of 8,000 men who were scarcely distinguishable from regular troops . |
| 17 | Sales of the product , whose yellow capsules contain natural minerals and vitamins to alleviate ailments ranging from pre-menstrual tension to lack of energy , have crashed by 30% to £1.9m . |
| 18 | This steer , in brief , sets out 10 key areas of ‘ health gain ’ , ranging from emotional health to cancers , and determines how these should be addressed by ‘ people-centred ’ planning and effective use of resources . |
| 19 | It is gearing up for its second consecutive presidential election in November , with candidates ranging from far right to soft left , and front-runners representing the centre . |
| 20 | As Nair ( 1985 ) has pointed out , there are many different types of agroforestry systems ranging from shifting cultivation to agrisilvicultural practices . |
| 21 | Most organisms , ranging from other microbes to man , can absorb folic acid and rely on it to provide their needs , and so they are not affected by sulphonamides . |
| 22 | The area offers superb walks ranging from gentle strolls to full day hikes . |
| 23 | Walking : Both Lauterbrunnen and Murren have a wide selection of varied walks to choose from , all well signposted and ranging from gentle rambles to more strenuous hikes . |
| 24 | Over a delicious meal of freshwater crayfish in lime butter , and a light-as-air mango soufflé , they 'd held an impeccably detached , wonderfully calm conversation ranging from Caribbean history to ethnic crafts and design , and discovered common ground on half a dozen other topics including a penchant for the Post-Impressionists , an affinity with the work and designs of William Morris , and a liking for cricket . |
| 25 | According to the US PC Week , the company has been outlining plans for a Workplace family of operating systems built under the Workplace Shell and a microkernel that will be scaled for machines ranging from handheld devices to multi-processer RISC machines . |
| 26 | In South America where savannas occupy some 2 × 110 8 ha , there have been many modifications of the natural vegetation for a variety of agricultural purposes ranging from large-scale ranching to intensive cropping based on irrigation . |
| 27 | Only more so , for the Soviet constitution itself had divided the country into theoretically ethnic territorial sub-units , ranging from autonomous areas to full federal republics . |
| 28 | Little is known of the history of the tower , which is part of a late 13th-century fortified manor house , but the remarkable paintings — ranging from biblical subjects to scenes of everyday rural life — tell a fascinating story of their own . |
| 29 | Explaining plans for a market economy , Gorbachev declared that diverse forms of ownership and management ranging from state-owned enterprises to co-operatives or family farms " all serve to strengthen the democratic pillars of society , since the working people become genuine masters of the means of production and the results of their work , and have a personal stake in efficient performance and high ultimate results " . |
| 30 | There are nineteen more employed on running campaigns ranging from tropical rainforests to air pollution and London 's roads . |