Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | BET , which deals in laundry to plant hire , saw its half-year profits slump from £71.5m to £40.5m and has slashed its interim dividend from 4.25p to 2p to conserve cash . |
| 2 | Fly from Cairo to Aswan and transfer to the Nile Symphony . |
| 3 | Fly from London to Seattle and board a connecting flight to Anchorage . |
| 4 | Then head from side to side , muttering , moaning . |
| 5 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |
| 6 | To what extent will business shift from banking to other types of lending ? |
| 7 | Only then can the emphasis switch from confrontation to co-operation , the attitude shift from apathy to enthusiasm . |
| 8 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 9 | SPANNING four continents and 70 countries , it is hardly surprising that the causes , and hence solutions to tropical forest destruction shift from region to region . |
| 10 | Among the threats to temperate forests identified by the report are logging of native forests , the treatment of trees as crops in a market shift from timber to pulp and paper production , air and water pollution , cutting for firewood , and forest fires . |
| 11 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 12 | In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time . |
| 13 | Many animals leap from bough to bough , and sometimes fall to the ground . |
| 14 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 15 | If land is likely to lie fallow overwinter — say from September to March — then sow the seed of any quick growing plants that will produce a large amount of foliage . |
| 16 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 17 | We crossed into France and caught the 12:15 ferry from Dunkirk to Ramsgate . |
| 18 | There they introduced escrima to eager young American martial artists and the last five years have seen escrima and kali grow from strength to strength . |
| 19 | Worldwide underwriting losses in Q3 down from $131m to $124.9m — despite losses on Hurricane Andrew' — produced deficit at the nine months down $71.4m from $419.9m ( representing 17.2% of premiums ) to $348.5m ( 13.3% of premiums ) . |
| 20 | You can have the pick of any woman you want from Polruan to Port of Spain , and a good few more besides . |
| 21 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 22 | The individual close-ups should be shot from the same side of a line connecting the two characters so that the eyelines match from shot to shot in the way they do in the master two-shot . |
| 23 | Researchers have discovered that periods of dreaming during sleep are related to times of rapid-eye movement ( REM ) during which the eyes flick from side to side under the eyelids . |
| 24 | Scottish Borders Walk from Traquair to Yair along an ancient drove road |
| 25 | Pedestrian precincts enable the customer to shop in safety , and walk from shop to shop to compare prices ; they are particularly helpful for parents with small children ( possibly in prams or pushchairs ) and the disabled . |
| 26 | It is quite amazing how much the human eye actually misses when we walk from place to place . |
| 27 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 28 | Capital Sums Benefit from £15,000 to £30,000 per person . |
| 29 | The demands arise from the particular tasks that lexicographers undertake from time to time , and are predictable only in overall terms . |
| 30 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |