Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun sg] 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 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 6 | The ‘ Vyborg Manifesto ’ elicited little response and those who took part were debarred from election to the next Duma . |
| 7 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 8 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 13 | At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction . |
| 14 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 18 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 19 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 20 | Both wore silver chaplets and were clothed from head to toe in robes of gold . |
| 21 | For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers . |
| 22 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 23 | Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France . |
| 24 | Lyell saw each biogeographical province as a ‘ centre of creation ’ where new species typical of that province were created from time to time , spreading out from the centre to occupy as much territory as they could . |
| 25 | Like the captured enemy patrol , Grant and Larsen were dressed from head to foot in dark clothing , only in their case it was less military in style . |
| 26 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 27 | He banned many of their rites and their passion plays and he forbade women to wear in public the cahdor , the long , black seamless garment in which they were covered from scalp to toe . |
| 28 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |