Example sentences of "[pron] from [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Home Alone 2 's record-breaking success in the US , British merchandisers have let their imaginations run riot to devise everything from computer games to yo-yos bearing either Macauley 's face or the film 's title . |
| 2 | The banks have been busy shoring up their capital and trimming their balance sheets , cutting loans and selling everything from government bonds to third world debt . |
| 3 | The first industrial revolution brought numerous new structures — textile mills , engine sheds , foundries , pumping stations — the second brought everything from telephone exchanges to towering office blocks , nuclear and photovoltaic power stations , vertical-axis wind turbines and multi-storey carparks . |
| 4 | Mr Wickins was one of several company directors of the Wimbledon-based Games Ltd firm , which owns a small chain of shops selling everything from board games to computer games . |
| 5 | The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes . |
| 6 | Rescue teams used everything from golf buggies to a sea king helicopter to search the area adjoining the golf course . |
| 7 | There are now eight other staff to deal with everything from race details to marina discounts . |
| 8 | Imagine an operating system that is suitable for everything from photo copiers to games consoles to video-graphics work to transaction processing . |
| 9 | Imagine an operating system that is suitable for everything from photo copiers to games consoles to video-graphics work to transaction processing . |
| 10 | More than 150 British food and drink companies , offering everything from speciality chocolates to game soup , took their wares to New York in early July to tempt North American trade buyers seeking new products . |
| 11 | These included everything from wind turbines to exploiting the heat from rocks deep under the earth 's surface , The phrase ‘ renewable ’ referred to the fact that instead of having constantly to supply new fuel from the earth , as with coal or nuclear materials , the energy source , such as wind or water , is constantly renewed . |
| 12 | A ONE-DAY sale at Little Stanney Village Hall today has everything from Christmas decorations to household goods on offer . |
| 13 | The scheme offers free security devices and advice on everything from fire alarms to dealing with bogus callers . |
| 14 | The first sixty-four pages of the little book included information on everything from jet engines to German strong verbs . |
| 15 | The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman ( Harvill , £10.99 ) — John Wiseman 's follow-up to The SAS Survival Handbook is a paranoic 's charter , drawing the attention of the unwary to the dangers of everything from extension ladders to Japanese wisteria and providing useful hints on how to combat them . |
| 16 | ‘ Then we had a Highway Code-cum-driving practice test and a 30-minute test on everything from dirt roads to motorways , which was partly an economy test driving at the maximum safe speed . |
| 17 | Here were bright clothes : everything from aluminium shoes to cheap and garish movie shirts of winking kittens and prancing unicorns and swivelling strippers . |
| 18 | The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers ' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers . |
| 19 | Our native common holly is not in the least fussy about soil and grows on everything from acid loams to chalk , and species from China and the Himalayas are equally hardy and reliable . |
| 20 | The 2.1kg PC 553 ERP ( all models in the range weigh the same ) will certainly cope with everything from shelf brackets to masonry fixings . |
| 21 | The Plan amounted , according to the critics , to a declaration of war on the southern Californian way of life , assaulting everything from drive-in movies to Burger Kings and , most of all , automobiles . |
| 22 | Back at Shenstone meanwhile , Le Roux was perfecting plans to bring out a range of Norton-logoed ‘ accessories ’ , everything from leather jackets to pocket knives to diaries and cigarette lighters emblazoned with the famous ‘ N ’ . |
| 23 | About 70 per cent of the funds raised by the tax go on salaries for everyone from parish priests to kindergarten teachers . |
| 24 | Everyone from security guards to nurses and secretaries helped make the day go with a buzz . |
| 25 | Finally , the systems integration market is becoming increasingly competitive as everyone from hardware manufacturers to software houses jump on the bandwaggon to try and offer value-added ‘ solutions ’ as opposed to simply raw product . |
| 26 | Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents , inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation . |
| 27 | Blagg 's touching faith that Maxim would save him from murder charges in two countries might at least mean that he would stay where he was and do nothing — for once . |
| 28 | Everybody from taxi drivers to government ministers listens to foreign radios three or four times a day and every threatening sound from Washington is seen as a sign of a new attack . |
| 29 | This has led to constant clashes with everybody from health ministers to bishops and police officers . |
| 30 | The TMI-2 accident now forms an important part of the considerable experience available to us from PWR operations around the world , and this summary shows that the CEGB and NNC must carefully assess and analyse the accident if they are to be certain that all of the relevant lessons from it have been satisfactorily incorporated in the British PWR . |