Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reportedly Univel has already lined up at least 70-plus companies to port to Destiny including WordPerfect , Oracle , Borland , Gupta , Lotus , 3Com , Ingres , Hyperdesk , Sybase , Informix , Frame , Applix and Island Graphics . |
| 2 | For instance : in standards of textual presentation ; in ability to thumb rapidly through a text ; in immediate portability of the viewed page ( desk to bed to balcony to garden ) ; in freedom of posture for the user ( stand , sit , lie ) ; and so on . |
| 3 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 4 | They change from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to adult . |
| 5 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 6 | The British food industry responds to consumer demands for meals that can go from freezer to microwave to table within minutes . |
| 7 | Germany 's ever-shifting political forms throughout the 19th and 20th centuries , from Customs Union to Federation to Empire to Republic to Third Reich , and her prostration after the war , sliced in two by the East-West divide , confirm in stark reality the lines of the 19th-century poet Hölderlin : ‘ it may be a hard word , but yet I say it , for it is the truth : I can think of no people more divided than the Germans . ’ |
| 8 | Germany 's ever-shifting political forms throughout the 19th and 20th centuries , from Customs Union to Federation to Empire to Republic to Third Reich , and her prostration after the war , sliced in two by the East-West divide , confirm in stark reality the lines of the 19th-century poet Hölderlin : ‘ it may be a hard word , but yet I say it , for it is the truth : I can think of no people more divided than the Germans . ’ |
| 9 | So he had dared her to grow it , and she had grown it , from eyebrow to ear to nape to the length of the neck to the shoulders . |
| 10 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |
| 11 | There are no rough edges : the three men and three women drift from solo to duet to ensemble with seamless ease . |
| 12 | The script cut from psychiatry to politics to history to Euro-moralising with dizzy speed ; film-clip collages of Hitler saluting , Hess ( or not-Hess ) in the mortuary , hamburger ads , crumbling buildings , a screaming man in seventeenth-century dress , and the widow miming Hess 's improbable suicide all chimed in an unholy jangle with the events on stage . |