Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 2 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 3 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 4 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 5 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 6 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 7 | The ‘ Vyborg Manifesto ’ elicited little response and those who took part were debarred from election to the next Duma . |
| 8 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 10 | Under the Conservatives the top rates were slashed from 83pc to 40pc which handed top earning executives some mighty large salary increases without them even having to ask . |
| 11 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 12 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 13 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 14 | The counties with the most charters are Kent , Somerset and Worcestershire , and here large blocks of land were defined from the seventh century onwards , particularly when they were granted from kings to early monasteries . |
| 15 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |
| 16 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 17 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 18 | It would appear that , separately from the files referred to in the correspondence in December 1990 , a substantial quantity of further files were moved from London to [ a Middle East state ] . |
| 19 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 20 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 21 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 22 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 23 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 24 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 25 | At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction . |
| 26 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 27 | Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence . |
| 28 | Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment . |
| 29 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 30 | Over more than 60 years , an estimated 150,000 children including some from Merseyside were shipped from Britain to distant parts of the Empire . |