Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun sg] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 2 | Brendan Daly moved from Defence to Social Welfare , Michael Woods from Social Welfare to Agriculture and Food , Michael O'Kennedy from Agriculture and Food to Labour , and Bertie Ahern from Labour to Finance in place of Reynolds . |
| 3 | I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz on first seeing Munchkinland — the scene when the screen changed from sepia to glorious Technicolor and Judy Garland spoke that immortal line , ‘ You know , Toto , I do n't believe we 're in Kansas any more . ’ |
| 4 | At the coastal town of Easky , two life-sized statues of cloth-capped old men appeared as if turned from flesh to blue-grey stone on the spot , one wheeling a bike , the other resting on a seat . |
| 5 | The timber arrived in the finishing shop and was machined by the aid of jigs and stops , passing from machine to adjacent benches where it was fitted together . |
| 6 | Transferred from goat to human being , the eyelid could be tied to an erect penis before intercourse in order to provide the woman with a stimulating tickling sensation . |
| 7 | The shortest lag occurs where the interpreter does not understand the message and merely transposes the message from one language to the other ; in BSL the transposition occurs from English to signed English , or from BSL to spoken signs . |
| 8 | Flaubert was emblematic of a further development in modernization , in which the referent of the work of art , having evolved from the timeless and ideal to the contingent , now had moved from contingency to virtual insignificance . |
| 9 | Clubs were affiliated to organizations ranging from church to political party . |
| 10 | Exercises ranging from yoga to vigorous swimming engage the body 's muscles in regular and rhythmic movements . |
| 11 | We tested six tents over a period of three months in weather ranging from sunshine to horizontal rain . |
| 12 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 13 | The stories range from beginner to intermediate level ; they are designed to present basic language structures and to teach conversational American English . |
| 14 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 15 | The proposition that industrial co-operatives can create and distribute wealth at least as well and probably better than the traditional forms of industry had already been argued from cause to probable effect . |
| 16 | With AIDS and HIV , the balance on Switchboard has shifted from Cloud-cuckoo-land to grim reality . |
| 17 | Mr Jillings said that since FIMBRA was established five years ago , the chief danger confronting the investor has shifted from fraud to bad advice , caused , he said , ‘ by a lack of experience , competence and training ’ . |
| 18 | Second , he considered himself responsible only " before God and History " and , therefore , exonerated from accountability to mere mortals , especially when , as in this case , he considered them hierarchically inferior . |
| 19 | Gradually , Alison came to question her core beliefs and realised that , in a moment , she could move from despair to inner peace by being loving and forgiving towards herself . |
| 20 | Blistering of the felt , splits and cracks will occur in most felt roofs and are due to thermal movement and brittleness resulting from exposure to ultra-violet light and locked-in vapours . |
| 21 | Slips , trips and falls accounted for almost a half of all major injuries while injuries resulting from exposure to harmful substances in the chemical industry ( 15.8 per cent ) were , not surprisingly , significantly higher than in the manufacturing industry as a whole ( 5.5 per cent ) . |
| 22 | The material ranges from beginner to intermediate level . |
| 23 | In her excitement , switching from Greek to broken English , she held him at arm 's length before kissing him soundly on both cheeks . |
| 24 | If to encourage recycling , should it not reflect the relative cost to industry of switching from virgin to recycled materials ? |
| 25 | The status of the golf pro was elevated from serfdom to secular divinity in 20 years . |
| 26 | If you want to grow dill for its decorative seed-heads ( see left ) , sow from spring to early summer , either broadcast or in drills , thinning out the young plants to about 3in apart . |
| 27 | Latin America 's nutritional levels are higher than in many other parts of the Third world , and yet it is estimated that 15 per cent of the region 's children suffer from medium to high-level malnutrition , which means , given the differences within the region , high levels in some areas ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Schnitke 's language seems to lunge from outburst to tranquil apology for his own excesses — simple , melodic threads he untangles from demonic cackle and sheer noise . |
| 29 | The reactions of clerical and managerial staff can range from non-cooperation to outright sabotage with employees deliberately distorting or destroying such data as time cards or production control information . |
| 30 | While it occurs most often in adolescence , the age of onset can range from pre-adolescence to middle age . |