Example sentences of "[noun] move from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting , however , that just as the teaching force moved from co-operation to conflict , so did many of the local authorities . |
| 2 | ‘ Our guiding element could be the Durutti 's Brigade moving from village to village , liquidating the bourgeois elements and leaving the workers to see to their own organization . ’ |
| 3 | Howard walks with them , his eyes moving from person to person , from object to object , trying to take everything in . |
| 4 | Billy Sullivan suddenly shaped up to his friend , his clenched fists pawing at the air and his shoulders moving from side to side . |
| 5 | her lips moving from time to time |
| 6 | ‘ Our idea is not to change the nature of the force to move from peacekeeping to peacemaking , ’ said Jean-Bernard Merimee , the ambassador of France , whose forces have suffered the most casualties in the Balkans . |
| 7 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 8 | I watched his silhouette moving from seat to seat , watching the others , shuffling and sidling closer , sometimes stopping as if uncertain , but then moving again until he was next to someone . |
| 9 | You can use the up and down arrow keys to move from line to line . |
| 10 | They were the classic forest hunters of Siberian whose family bands moved from place to place , camping in conical , deerskin-covered tents , the most common type of nomadic dwelling in the north , to which the Russians applied the Komi term chum . |
| 11 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 12 | The former racing driver and industrialist Lady Denton — who entered the Lords last year — becomes a junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry ; Lady Blatch moves from Environment to Minister of State for Education ; and Baroness Cumberlege becomes a junior minister at Health . |
| 13 | The teacher moves from group to group , occasionally spotlighting one of them , saying " Let's see what 's happening in different parts of the town " and then reflecting on what 's been heard and seen : " Feelings are running high . |
| 14 | Whilst this may have been commonplace in the old days as vendors moved from technology to technology there is little need for it now , as Monotype are adequately demonstrating . |
| 15 | Like an out-take from Falcon Crest , Souness and his wife moved from villa to mansion and back again , but his incurable obsession with football ultimately led to divorce and to a painful separation which distanced Souness from his children . |
| 16 | He was still conscious and was moaning loudly , his head moving from side to side . |
| 17 | Then my father slowly raised his rifle and there was the tiger , padding towards us along a narrow game trail , his head moving from side to side . |
| 18 | And these things move from time to time as well of course |
| 19 | Water moves from crumb to crust |
| 20 | In the role of parry in The Fisher King , his latest film , Robin moves from practitioner to patient , a journey through the external trappings of madness to the inner recesses of a divine dementia . |
| 21 | The separate rooms , the doors of which open and close as part of the programme after they have given visitors the chance to move from room to room , begin with the sense of smell . |
| 22 | Commissioners normally have fixed-term posts at given salaries whilst civil servants move from post to post . |
| 23 | What happens when people move from research to industry and commerce ? |
| 24 | As its diamond-tipped drill moves from place to place along a rock band that stretches through the Mweelrea Mountains and the Sheeffry Hills , local concern is growing . |
| 25 | While working the FAXgrabber icon appears at the bottom of the screen and little bracket symbols move from side to side underneath it to tell you that it is operating . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State for Transport , Malcolm Rifkind , has signalled a shift in government transport policy by declaring his intention to encourage freight traffic to move from road to rail , in part by ending British Rail 's monopoly on freight , to improve public transport in cities and to investigate " road pricing " to cut congestion . |
| 27 | Italy moved from victory to victory . |
| 28 | Thus the Long Gilt suffered a mild setback in 1988 and 1989 as the public sector finances moved from deficit to surplus and the Treasury instituted a " buy-back " programme for long-dated gilts . |
| 29 | There were very few rumours about top players moving from province to province . |
| 30 | The brain 's problem is to convert this ambiguous information about the movement of edges through the visual field into an unambiguous representation of the movement of an object , in this case a diamond moving from left to right . |