Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference .
2 He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western .
3 Unless one has followed the rug-making process through from clipping to completion , the only way to assess the quality of the wool is to rely on the " feel " of the item and the reputation of the individual weaving group .
4 But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me
5 Here is the quintessence of Rough Trade , personified by toothless Scottish ex-merchant seamen , clearly chosen not for their specialist knowledge of haute cuisine , but simply because of their sure-footedness on floors that list alternately from port to starboard .
6 Anchor ice accumulations , being less dense than sea water , break away from time to time and rise to the surface , carrying with them entrapped and frozen plants and animals , which gather in layers under the inshore floes .
7 Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed .
8 Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow .
9 To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures .
10 You could , for instance , cut freely from close-up to closeup without the problems of jumps in the action which can spoil wider shots .
11 It complains that prices vary widely from country to country .
12 Plasma concentrations after oral dosage vary widely from individual to individual , and after a single 16 mg dose , recovery in the stool varies from 14 to 49% in volunteers ( Glaxo Group Research Ltd , unpublished data ) .
13 The first is that an advertisement is , at least in some sense , an artistic creation : people 's judgements of art are virtually always subjective , and vary widely from person to person .
14 The levels of disturbance allowance given vary widely from organisation to organisation .
15 Executive fashions vary little from year to year but the most popular fashion statement of the Eighties — huge shoulder pads — are definitely out .
16 The current ( 1980s ) rankings of the major brewers vary somewhat from product to product :
17 Numbers reaching N W Europe vary greatly from year to year .
18 Individual risks vary greatly from job to job and from industry to industry .
19 They therefore travel daily from town to country to do seasonal work as agricultural labourers .
20 Open daily from Easter to early November , a trip on the Railway is something to remember .
21 Did wages before industrialization vary much from year to year , or was an unvarying ‘ customary ’ wage more usual ?
22 There is no doubt that Shetlanders ' images of social class vary extensively from individual to individual ( typically in relation to the ‘ things ’ which are thought to ‘ give ’ people their class , and the elements which are thought to be consequence of class membership ) .
23 The proportions of different chemicals of sea and fresh water vary slightly from area to area .
24 Fees vary enormously from artist to artist , and start around £200 for a drawing , going up to £30,000 for a full-length ceremonial portrait .
25 Teachers ' centres vary enormously from place to place , but typically provide facilities for teachers to meet , formally or informally , to attend short courses , to hold exhibitions and displays , and consult materials .
26 As Fitzgerald pointed out , the variability between books is tremendous : some books are fairly stable , but others vary enormously from section to section .
27 I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’
28 Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture .
29 policies on redundancy vary sharply from diocese to diocese .
30 Therefore these scales vary wildly from laboratory to laboratory .
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