Example sentences of "transition [prep] [noun] to [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star .
2 At a more modest level , an apparent weakness of the French system of training engineers , as compared with the British system , may prove an advantage in this transition from public to private sector employment .
3 They say they 've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer .
4 Its social bases include : ( i ) the crisis , for many artists , of the transition from patronage to the market ; ( ii ) the crisis , in certain arts , of the transition from handwork to machine production ( see Chapter 4 , below ) ; ( iii ) crises within both patronage and the market , in a period of intense and general social conflict ; ( iv ) the attachment of certain groups to a pre-capitalist and/or pre-democratic social order , in which some arts had been accorded privilege within a general privilege ; ( v ) the attachment of other groups to the democratization of the social order , as part of the process of general liberation and human enrichment to which the arts , if they were allowed , could contribute : ( vi ) a more general opposition , often overlapping and even seeming to unite these diverse political views , to the practices and values of a ‘ commercial ’ and ‘ mechanical ’ civilization , from which the practice and values of the arts could be distinguished .
5 Members of staff are aware of the special nature of the skills required for law and make every effort in lectures and tutorials to ensure that the transition from school to university work is a smooth one .
6 For some time , it had been recognised that significant numbers of promising young players were being lost to the game by a lack of a smooth transition from school to senior club .
7 It examined ‘ the transition from school to independent life ’ .
8 Among the explanations given by Poulantzas which fit this pattern , his account of the transition from non-monopoly to monopoly capital is a case in point .
9 The transition from rookie to fighter pilot starts with two days of selection tests at Cranwell where computer games , each testing some facet of an entrant 's abilities , quickly turn frustratingly impossible .
10 Elizabeth brings with her the experience of working through periods of change both with ILEA and London Guildhall which recently made the transition from polytechnic to university status .
11 These fragmentary observations — some of them , like the contrast between government and administration , misleading — clearly do not amount to a systematic theory of the political transition from capitalist to socialist society , or of the eventual nature of a socialist political system .
12 In our own society there is no such clear transition from childhood to adult life .
13 Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate .
14 In particular , transition from primary to secondary school is usually governed by a highly organised examination system understood and accepted by administration , teachers and parents alike .
15 Compulsory education constitutes the initial basic and general stages , the difference between the two being mainly a matter of scope and level rather than intention or function , though it sometimes corresponds to the transition from primary to secondary education .
16 The successful transition from Primary to Secondary Education is regarded as essential to the continuing success of Heriot 's .
17 Third , the incidence of the increases in payments during the transition from rates to community charge was Perceived as falling disproportionately on Conservative voters in marginal seats .
18 The long gallery and large windows show the transition from stronghold to country house .
19 The initial transition from amateur to professional golf so shocked second-year professional Darren Clarke , who won the 1990 Irish Amateur before turning pro , that he completely revamped his swing as well as changing his attitude to the game .
20 A new Constitution , approved by referendum in August 1982 , extended the President 's term of office for a further seven years , and provided for the holding of presidential and legislative elections in the course of a gradual transition from military to civilian rule .
21 Several senior government appointees were retired from the armed forces on Sept. 5 , in the context of a major restructuring of the military which had been anticipated since the April coup attempt , and in line with the policy of transition from military to civilian rule .
22 A new Constitution , approved by referendum in August 1982 , extended the President 's term of office for a further seven years , created a 41-member House of Representatives of the People , and provided for the holding of presidential and legislative elections in the course of a gradual transition from military to civilian rule .
23 Princess Elizabeth ( d.1650 ) , the second daughter of King Charles I , lies in Westminster Abbey in a lead shell , which marks the transition from anthropoid to flat-lid single-break ; again , no outer case , rather simple iron grips affixed to the lead .
24 The transition from valuation to expert determination is considered in Chapter 6 .
25 The transition from Democrat to Republican administration in Washington in 1953 posed many problems for the British .
26 He felt that the transition from junior to senior school was difficult enough without making the children go to a different teacher for every subject , so the three first-year forms had their own class teacher for maths , English , scripture , history or geography ( one teacher took one or the other for two classes ) and science .
27 Plexus , which went bankrupt in 1989 following an unstable transition from hardware to software production , was subsequently rescued by Dallas , Texas-based Recognition Equipment Inc .
28 There is an explicit belief in the literature that the transition from independent to dependent status comes on retirement .
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