Example sentences of "transition [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another scene on the Wicker Arches during the transition from steam to electric in 1954 . |
| 2 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 3 | Within our own catchment area considerable progress has been made towards developing the concept of a pyramid of schools working together to create coherence and continuity in curriculum and effective transition from school to school throughout the 3–16 age range . |
| 4 | International relations were determined by local factors as well as the interplay of political intrigue and diplomatic negotiation at the highest level : what Powicke rather dismissively described as ‘ a chapter in French local history ’ can not be ignored if one is to explain the ebb and flow of events and the rapid transition from peace to war in this region . |
| 5 | James Callaghan , the chancellor of the exchequer , was pleased by the American interest in the smoothest possible transition from Conservative to Labour in all that related to sterling . |
| 6 | In societies in which adolescence as we know it does not really occur , they make the transition from childhood to adulthood in one traumatic experience just as their ancestors , generations before , made the change from the innocence of nature to the guilt and responsibility of culture by perpetuating the primal crimes of incest and parricide . |
| 7 | One moment we were stationary , the next sliding forward smoothly , the transition from rest to motion of a quarter of a mile of metal achieved as if on silk . |
| 8 | For example , the absolutist states of seventeenth-century Europe may be seen as ‘ the state of transition from feudalism to capitalism in Western Europe ’ ( Poulantzas 1973 , p. 157 ) . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the " fundamental substance which takes up our time remains the transition from capitalism to socialism on a world scale ushered in by the Great October Soviet Revolution " . |
| 10 | Some writers even saw the transition from imagination to rationality as an evolutionary process ; Vico and Rousseau , for example , both suggested that natural man would have spouted poetry before he acquired rational speech . |
| 11 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |