Example sentences of "from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two points off a relegation place and with no money to spend , they 're on Skid Row and Kendall has gone from prince to pauper . |
| 2 | Chapman switched Jimmy Brain from inside-forward to centre-forward to create a powerful new source of goals , for Brain went on to score 31 that season , breaking the club 's individual record . |
| 3 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's other concern was to dislodge the Germans from their dominating positions on the ridge of high ground running from Westroosbeke to Broodseinde before winter set in . |
| 4 | Donations to the raffle ranged from champagne to ‘ coasters ’ and together with the bar , helped to swell the profits from the evening to just over £400 , a sum which will be put to good use in helping us to continue to offer free pregnancy testing at our Lancaster office , together with confidential counselling for those with problem pregnancies and a helping hand for those experiencing difficulties following an abortion . |
| 5 | A butler , a Polynesian in a trim white jacket , approached us with a tray of drinks ranging from champagne to gin fizzes or Scotch and sodas . |
| 6 | check what excesses apply to the various sections of the policy — these will differ from insurer to insurer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As ever , rank-and-file Party members and local trades union officials provided the core of the listening web which was supposed to embrace all citizens of Romania from cradle to grave . |
| 9 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 10 | They should also inform shoppers as to the product 's environmental friendliness from cradle to grave — evaluated according to standardized criteria . |
| 11 | Attracted , presumably , by the bright whites and reds , it flits deftly from shirt to shirt , with no intention of going anywhere . |
| 12 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 13 | Why not make a visit to the International Motor Show , the British International Antiques Fair , or any of the numerous public exhibitions covering everything from photography to holidays and travel , and classic cars to boats and caravans . |
| 14 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 15 | FROM ENTITLEMENT TO OBLIGATION |
| 16 | But at the same time , because of the Government 's policy of disenfranchising people from entitlement to national insurance benefits , and reducing the income of those already on low incomes , it has significantly increased the numbers claiming means-tested assistance , or , as it prefers to say , targeted help on those in greatest need . |
| 17 | In particular , the shifts from entitlement to discretion , exemplified by the Social Fund , and the exclusion of certain groups from the benefits system , notably 16- and 17-year olds . |
| 18 | The paragraphs being added to the database became part of a new book on hypertext entitled Hypertext : from Text to Expertext . |
| 19 | When the farmer changes his land from pasture to arable , he has additional outlay to make in the form of farm machinery , equipment , and so on . |
| 20 | Migrating from pasture to pasture with their herds of horses , cattle and other animals , they lived in a type of portable home ( ger ) consisting of a circular framework covered with felt ( which the Russians incorrectly called yuna ) . |
| 21 | The same themes were reechoed in the second decade of the sixteenth century , when the government again began to take an interest in restraining enclosure , and attempted , sometimes successfully , to restore land from pasture to tillage . |
| 22 | The mental progression from creativity to the perception of beauty is the essence of the peak experience . |
| 23 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 24 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |
| 25 | She spread her legs a little wider , as his mouth feasted upon her from arsehole to clitoris , slobbering over her saturated crotch . |
| 26 | ‘ This is what they get from arsehole to breakfast . |
| 27 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 28 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 29 | In my garden it has made a swift transition from weed to wild flower to flower . |
| 30 | From description to formal interpretation , we can cite part of an analysis of a portrait , Monsieur Geoffroy : |