Example sentences of "ranging from [noun] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs were affiliated to organizations ranging from church to political party . |
| 2 | This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment . |
| 3 | The privatization of industries , ranging from Britoil to British Gas , British Telecom and British Steel , has been a great success , partly because they have touched a public nerve , but also because the share issues have usually been made at below market value . |
| 4 | Exercises ranging from yoga to vigorous swimming engage the body 's muscles in regular and rhythmic movements . |
| 5 | Definitive reference , ranging from encyclopedias to special interests . |
| 6 | The houses , whose front doors opened directly on the street , were a mixed bag , ranging from cottages to substantial dwellings of some distinction , originally built for Packet skippers . |
| 7 | A three-day trade mission of 16 US semiconductor companies arranged by the US Department of Commerce opened in Tokyo yesterday : 60 representatives from the firms , ranging from engineers to chief executives , will hold 150 face-to-face meetings with 27 Japanese chip users to explore new business opportunities . |
| 8 | Around 150 Italian works of art will be shown by around forty dealers and galleries , ranging from antiquities to nineteenth-century paintings , about with prices from £500 to over £1 million . |
| 9 | She does not provide dinner , but there are thirteen eating places within two miles , ranging from pubs to classy restaurants . |
| 10 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 11 | Prior to the mid-nineteenth century , magazines such as Youth 's Monthly Visitor aimed their moral homilies at an undefined audience covering both sexes and ranging from children to young adults . |
| 12 | There are over one hundred different species to choose from , ranging from insects to large animals . |
| 13 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 14 | We tested six tents over a period of three months in weather ranging from sunshine to horizontal rain . |
| 15 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |