Example sentences of "transfer [pers pn] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel .
2 She lifted the clothes out of the pot on the end of the pole and transferred them to a fresh-water butt to rinse .
3 ‘ The Soviets have now transferred him to a Labour Camp . ’
4 Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey .
5 Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot .
6 Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle .
7 Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out .
8 Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home .
9 Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer .
10 You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them .
11 To have any chance of raising the fry to a reasonable size , you will have to transfer them to a separate aquarium .
12 Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ?
13 A decision was taken in principle to require agencies with independent sources of income to transfer them to the central treasury .
14 If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system .
15 Normally the charge will be repaid when the property is sold but the Board has a discretion to transfer it to a substitute property in certain limited circumstances ( see reg 98 ) .
16 For example , if a trade is wrongly allocated , it may be necessary to transfer it to the correct account .
17 The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns .
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