Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 2 | Since the arrival of the very first ship , the Annika , this Belfast to Rotterdam service has grown from a weekly to a twice weekly sailing , offering importers and exporters a choice of shipping at the beginning or at the end of the week . |
| 3 | The new product has moved from a novelty to a buying habit . |
| 4 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 5 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 6 | EUROPE 's research supremo , Commissioner Etienne Davignon , has returned from a trip to Tokyo determined to build on a new understanding over trade in high-technology goods to increase collaboration between Japan and Europe on costly research projects . |
| 7 | She 'd died from a blow to her neck . |
| 8 | Problems may arise when trainees decide to switch from an academic to a NHS career . |
| 9 | Given their commitment and dedication , very often they will prove themselves right , as our Fibres people showed us when they decided to change from a bulk to a speciality business , in the face of our scepticism . |
| 10 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 11 | Certainly in the first 10 years that the two species overlapped , the proportion of magpie nests which were parasitised rocketed from a quarter to more than three quarters , as the cuckoos switched away from the more discriminating meadow buntings . |
| 12 | Mubarak had returned from a visit to Tripoli the previous day , while Kadhafi had visited Cairo at the beginning of July to conclude the ratification of 10 integration agreements signed by the two countries . |
| 13 | The indictments came after the principal investigator , Rosario Priore , had returned from a visit to the United States , where he had sought access to US records . |
| 14 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 15 | She 's gone from a Scouse-hold to a household name , co-starring in the latest run of the hit TV show The Comedians . |