Example sentences of "[to-vb] from one " in BNC.

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1 We separated private manufacturing and private service establishments where they appeared to differ from one another .
2 Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications .
3 An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between .
4 Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind .
5 I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors .
6 As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit .
7 If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) .
8 I think to jump from one twenty five to , to two pounds is .
9 Apart from the ethical concerns some people feel on this matter there is the pressing issue of the degree to which it is possible to extrapolate from one species to another , especially from non-human species to ourselves .
10 jobs which involve using heavy domestic equipment , or climbing steps and taking down curtains can be a real problem , and the thorough spring-clean they always used to do becomes a complete impossibility if they happen to suffer from one of the common disorders of old age , such as arthritis or heart trouble .
11 Esther Breuer made a note to order Oxenholme 's monograph on Signorelli , and read on , waiting for some little current to leap from one open page to the other , from one lobe of the brain to the other , and to ignite a new twig of meaning , to fill a small new cell of the storehouse of her erudition .
12 mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next .
13 On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road .
14 I think part of the problem with the station youth centre , surely is that , we do n't seem to know from one year to another , what the future 's gon na be , other , you know , there does n't seem to be any forward planning whatsoever .
15 He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another .
16 1906 is probably best remembered for the great earthquake in San Francisco , which resulted in fire and general destruction of the city ; also the Simplon tunnel through the Alps was completed , allowing railway traffic to pass from one side of that range of mountains , to the other .
17 Safer sex is anything which does not allow blood , semen or vaginal fluids to pass from one person into the body of another .
18 The king is absolute only in his power to pass from one slavery to another .
19 The ninety acres of entrancing if formalized beauty of the park , crossed by paths so convenient that they might have been purposefully designed to lead from one centre of power to another , must , he thought , have heard more secrets than any other part of London .
20 Another method is to give the baby a small amount of boiled water from a bottle before the morning feed , so that it feels full more quickly , or to feed from one breast only — this will tend to reduce your supply of milk overall , so you should only do this if you know your milk is plentiful .
21 There is room inside the wall for horsemen and infantry to march from one end of the town to the other …
22 It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next .
23 They had also hired a French teacher , whose name Robert was unable to remember from one day to the next .
24 If a narrative can be said to progress from one equilibrium to another , with the initial stability disrupted by a particular event or force , then ‘ race ’ is frequently the power which produces disequilibrium in racial problem films of this period .
25 It appears entirely possible for a coronary artery to progress from one with hardly any narrowing to one which is completely blocked over a relatively short period of time ; and conversely , it is possible for a severe coronary stenosis to stay as a severe coronary stenosis without progressing for several years .
26 I said that the " genetic ruler " of Figure 8 enables us to calculate the minimum time it would take to evolve from one point to another .
27 Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill .
28 Every object in these paintings is separated from those surrounding it by layers of tactile , visible space which enable the spectator 's eye to reach from one part of the canvas to another , from one object to another , by a series of clearly defined pictorial passages .
29 A 30minute set seemed to contain only two distinct songs , preferring to veer from one mantra-like rhythm to the next .
30 If a fish , swimming within their circle , manages to escape from one baggy bill , it is likely to swim straight into another .
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