Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [v-ing] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol .
2 Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account .
3 While this may mean that disabled people are shifting from institutions to ghettoes , it nevertheless heralds an age when disabled people are not to be cured as such .
4 Finally , the Rampton/Swann statistics themselves provide evidence that the educational achievements of Afro-Caribbean children and young people are increasing from year to year at a higher rate than those of other groups .
5 When people are fleeing from fear of imprisonment , torture or death , they will use any means available to reach a safe country .
6 MMT Computing AS Ltd , the only one to deal in a vertical market — AS/400 software — saw a lot of new work because , Haines said , many users are converting from mainframes to mid-range systems .
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