Example sentences of "from [noun prp] to " in BNC.

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1 The final southbound working to run over the section from Dunford to Sheffield consisted of class 20 No. 20004 and a brake conveying a party of contractors who had been inspecting the remaining part of the route west of Penistone .
2 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 .
3 As the months passed and the court moved — and Anne and Joan with it — from Westminster to Greenwich , from Greenwich to Sheen and then back again to Westminster , and as Joan practised and adopted the ways of the nobility , the close resemblance between herself and Anne became more pronounced .
4 If in no other sense than economic , the world 's focus had switched from East to West , from Greenwich to the Date Line , from Atlantic to Pacific .
5 SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’
6 The allegations stemmed from a letter received by BR 's area manager at Gloucester in November 1990 , in which a woman alleged that her son and a friend , while travelling from Stonehouse to Gloucester , were stopped by the steward and asked if they were trying to avoid paying their fare .
7 The steward is said to have issued the boys with a receipt , made out for £5 and indicating that it was for the journey from Stonehouse to Gloucester .
8 Their detour to Fort George crossed what is how the main road from Nairn to Inverness , and they arrived some time in the late morning .
9 Elsewhere , from Lewis to Barra and from Unst to Strathspey , from Nairn to Kyle , the wishing continues apace .
10 Counts in these Harbours of over 200 between early December and March are unusual , and the average of all counts from mid-December to late March is 140 .
11 And to move from B to Z movies , connoisseurs of the bizarre can now lay in their own copy of Edward Woods ’ Plan 9 From Outer Space ( Palace , £14.99 ) , once voted the most incompetent film of all time .
12 This then resolves by dropping a semitone down , from B to Bb , to become the 5th in Eb .
13 Many of these have been published as national biographical repertories , but not all are complete ( that for France , for example , had reached the letter D when the first edition of this book appeared and has now , nineteen years later , almost completed G , Italy , in the same time , has got from B to C. Works for reference such as these form the scholarly end of a spectrum of contemporary works which runs at its other extreme into straightforward journalism .
14 In this procedure b is said to be parallel transported from B to A. Comparison of local vectors in a curved space is less straightforward because it is no longer possible to set up a single Cartesian coordinate system to cover all space .
15 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 .
16 When the Dunner froze at low tide and you could skate from Odborough to Furness .
17 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 .
18 The echoing Musée d'Art et d'Histoire , part of the complex , has Egyptian and Roman relics , Flemish tapestries and altarpieces , while the dusty Musée de l'Armée is crammed with rusted relics of Belgian battles from Waterloo to World War II .
19 Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton .
20 On September 11 , only a couple of months after the 25th anniversary of the last steam from this famous terminus , Taw Valley will go yet again into preservation history with ‘ The Bournemouth Ltd ’ which she will haul from Waterloo to Bournemouth throughout .
21 So there are two records being achieved here with the operation of ‘ The Sarum ’ being hauled from Waterloo to Salisbury and back on Friday , February 5th .
22 But as they waited to be escorted by police from Waterloo to the concert , they were confronted by a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters .
23 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 .
24 Malaria : Spread by the Anopheline mosquito , which buzzes by night from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro , from Dakar to Durban , and the Persian Gulf to the Pacific .
25 Throughout all his operatic output , one factor remained constant : the inspiration of Peter Pears as friend , lover and uniquely-voiced creator of all the tenor leads from Grimes to Aschenbach .
26 Thereafter his close relationship with Britten proved a powerful source of inspiration for the composer ; a vast quantity of music — including thirteen operatic roles ( from Grimes to Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice ( 1973 ) ) , song-cycles ( with piano and with orchestra ) , five canticles and solo parts in major choral works such at St Nicolas ( 1948 ) , Spring Symphony ( 1949 ) and War Requiem ( 1961 ) was composed specifically for Pears .
27 It was impossible to commute from Rummidge to Ipswich or vice versa .
28 Alice looked from Pascoe to Dave , her face tense with worry .
29 FROM Aachen to Bonn , the ancient to the modern capital , is but an hour 's drive .
30 Once Lothar had again spurned his brothers ' messengers , and come southwards from Aachen to the Moselle , apparently seeking battle , the scene was set for a final showdown .
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