Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 2 | In this context Marxism furnishes its own distinctive teleology of the oppressed , which can easily be transposed from class to nation or ‘ race ’ . |
| 3 | In the 1980s , Asian economies moved from low-tech to mid-tech or even high-tech , and some countries began to export knowledge products and most were turning more to research as an underpinning of future economic growth . |
| 4 | But he also disclosed that the 11 BR employees singled out for specific criticism by the Hidden inquiry would face disciplinary action , ranging from reprimand to suspension or dismissal . |
| 5 | Yet this same student may be quite good at translating from French to English or the other way round and may have a certain knowledge of the history of French literature and the critical points to be made about specified French texts . |
| 6 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 7 | You can easily carry your BOND Sweater Machine from room to room or even take it on holiday with you . |
| 8 | In addition , textile effluents are very variable in flow and composition , so that the treatment process has to be able to cope with all the fluctuations that can occur from day to day or month to month . |
| 9 | As these last few examples show , gestures of respect or disrespect , moving from verse to prose or back again , are often caused by the entry of one or more characters , with the result that those characters on stage have to readjust themselves , choose which medium they are going to use . |
| 10 | If flying across country is not practical and you are local soaring , it is better to practise moving from cloud to cloud or thermal to thermal without taking the climbs to any great height . |
| 11 | Although people 's institutional knowledge of the comparative costliness of different types of credit is fairly accurate ( in terms , say , of knowing that banks are a cheaper source of loans than HP firms ) , they have little idea of the actual cost of credit , and of how this varies from type to type or firm to firm . |
| 12 | Can teachers plan ahead when class membership varies from day to day or week to week ? |
| 13 | At night , after dinner , it is very pleasant to stroll from hotel to hotel or to the many bars and small restaurants or , later , to the discothèques . |
| 14 | Their reaction turns from pleasure to indifference or hostility as they realise what impending fatherhood actually involves . |
| 15 | John Dykstra , with Richard Edlund and others , was able to set up a camera rig that moved very precisely in metal tracks , with the camera on an arm that could move up and down , while the camera itself could pan from side to side or tilt up and down or any combination or roll over to the side and also change focus as needed . |
| 16 | In woodlands they can swing from tree to tree or scramble over the treetops to drop to the forest floor below . |
| 17 | I do n't know if chemically he 'd change from day to day or if his stars were n't right , or maybe that was the game that he played . |
| 18 | Complaints are right sided , go from right to left or above downwards |
| 19 | Complaints are right sided , go from right to left or above downwards . |
| 20 | What counts as better or worse with respect to scientific theories will vary from individual to individual or from community to community . |
| 21 | Depending on which light you have on , the pattern will either go from left to right or right to left . |
| 22 | It make no difference at all , electronically speaking , whether the line is printed from left to right or from right to left and most modern printers are capable of bi-directional printing . |
| 23 | Some playback machines are multi-standard and can switch from PAL to SECAM or NTSC , but do n't assume anything about video machines you are going to use . |
| 24 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 25 | As might be expected when the large area in which Gaelic was widespread is considered , plant names may differ from place to place or be recorded in variant forms , and the choice ( in most cases ) of one name only in the Flora was extremely difficult . |
| 26 | But it , it , it 's not covering from factory to airport or anything of that sort . |