Example sentences of "vary from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 a research paper by American scientists showed that the stable isotope ratios for oxygen and carbon in white marble varied from quarry to quarry , and more extensive research since then has confirmed that such measurements provide a ‘ signature ’ for the marble quarries of Italy , Greece and Turkey , which were the main sources of Classical marble . |
| 2 | The sections could take from two weeks to half a term to complete , so the actual number of tests varied from scheme to scheme . |
| 3 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 4 | The union pointed out that under the Merchant Shipping Act , the loss of a ship terminated a seaman 's contract and that newcomers would expect the wages which they had previously enjoyed ; since these varied from port to port and ship to ship , domestic peace on board would be unlikely . |
| 5 | The clinical significance of colonisation by the epidemic strain varied from patient to patient . |
| 6 | Wages and conditions of work varied from firm to firm . |
| 7 | Like telephone charges , they can be varied from day to day and between evenings and rush hours . |
| 8 | Again , motivation varied from individual to individual . |
| 9 | The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment . |
| 10 | Agricultural productivity varied from country to country with its structure . |
| 11 | It may be that the policy of differing rates of support for different categories of residential and nursing homes clients encourages some specialisation. b Literature A survey of registered nursing homes in Edinburgh showed that about 70% of residents suffered mild , moderate or severe dementia , but figures varied from home to home , indicating differing practices , not necessarily related to the declared policy of the homes ( Primrose and Capewell , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | The strategies naturally varied from case to case , but all addressed the broad goals outlined above and all included a publicity programme of meetings , brochures and media coverage . |
| 13 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 14 | Talk varied from views on nationalism and child birth to thoughts on mysticism and linguistic oppression . |
| 15 | Contributions are usually made entirely by the company , and can be varied from year to year . |
| 16 | The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it . |
| 17 | Dealers regard Matisse as an unreliable vineyard whose quality and yield varied from year to year . |
| 18 | Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s . |
| 19 | The rate of acquisition of these various classes of assets has varied from year to year but with the exception of overseas securities holdings , which have tended to rise as a proportion of the total since 1980 , there are no significant trends . |
| 20 | The subjects of the scrutinies varied from payment of social security benefits to the organisation of the coastguard ( Gray and Jenkins , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | The arguments rehearsed by Sextus Empiricus purported to show that , because perception of secondary qualities such as tastes and colours varied from person to person , we can not know how things really are in respect of these . |
| 22 | The operation of the communities of interest has varied from seeking to preserve neighbourhood cohesion or status quo ( Fineview and Charles Street Kirkbride ) to pursuing the interests of an exclusive and unrepresentative group within the neighbourhood ( such as Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny and increasingly Manchester ) . |
| 23 | Throughout the trip my feelings toward him varied from fury at his incompetence to humour and pity . |
| 24 | Of course , the response varied from council to council . |
| 25 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 26 | The actual pattern varied from town to town and decade to decade but there is abundant evidence of a modest and continued prosperity in the smaller centres such as Petworth , Midhurst and Steyning where a large number of the houses have survived . |
| 27 | Benefits realised varied from site to site , but ranged from a doubling of throughput per week at a cost more than halved , through to a headcount reduction of one third . |
| 28 | The significance of either of these factors varied from site to site ; at times cults appear largely to have been promoted by the Church hierarchy , or by a small group with a precise , often family , interest in the new saint — this seems to be the norm for the development of the cults of the aristocratic saints of the seventh century . |
| 29 | The designation of zones has certainly encouraged development , but this has varied from region to region . |
| 30 | Differences in earnings depended on a wide variety of factors : wages varied from region to region , employers paid different amounts for the same work , and their practices regarding fines differed . |