Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 32 | Over the next 3 years the maturing Balsamic vinegar is carefully transferred from Mulberry to Chestnut to Juniper wood barrels . |
| 33 | If anything , sharks are already slightly flattened from back to belly . |
| 34 | The 1931 treaty is automatically prolonged from year to year and each party has the right to terminate it after six months ' notification . |
| 35 | But a diminishing , though still powerful , minority ensured that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was kept alive and could even be temporarily revitalized from time to time when there was a transient upturn in Germany 's fortunes or the promise of suitable retaliation for people 's miseries . |
| 36 | This will result in directly employed labour being slightly undervalued from time to time . |
| 37 | It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice . |
| 38 | Dissanayake had competed with Premadasa for the ruling United National Party 's nomination as presidential candidate in 1988 ( as had Lalith Athulathmudali , now transferred from Agriculture to Education ) , and had subsequently differed with the President on such issues as the handling of the withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka . |
| 39 | John Gummer , now shifted from agriculture to environment , has been around too long , but is an old chum of the prime minister . |
| 40 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 41 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 42 | Designs on the screen are most often knitted from bottom to top , so looking for colours as they appear in the design from bottom to top and left to right is an accurate way of assessing where colours are brought into the work and their order . |
| 43 | The mill was originally converted from fulling to corn and then to silk in 1747 . |
| 44 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 45 | Research studies which may seem quite practical to university people may seem very far removed from reality to practitioners , and research workers who are prepared to learn from the practitioners can often modify their research plans and greatly improve them . |
| 46 | Within each section of the company workers were now rotated from job to job automatically , regularly , and compulsorily , and this system covered a range of levels , not just the most de-skilled of the jobs . |
| 47 | As a result of this rule , and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns , the motor industry 's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth . |
| 48 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 49 | On Paul 's first day he arranged four appointments for our consultants with prospective clients , and has since gone from strength to strength . |
| 50 | This fish has a deep body , narrowly compressed from side to side , very large eyes , prominent fins on both the upper and lower surfaces of the body , and a manlike tail . |
| 51 | The famous and high-born simply moved from room to room , inclining their heads or smiling as they acknowledged their friends and acquaintances . |
| 52 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 53 | Sharks in general are n't flattened from side to side as free-swimming bony fish like herrings are . |
| 54 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 55 | The multiplier is then scanned from right to left , and each multiplier bit is examined in turn . |
| 56 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
| 57 | Attention to detail , like holding one 's briefcase in the left hand so that the right can be used for the handshake , removes the possibility of an awkward moment when a briefcase is clumsily transferred from right to left as the buyer extends his hand in greeting . |
| 58 | As speakers switch , so the deictic centre , on which the rest of the deictic system hangs , is itself abruptly moved from participant to participant . |
| 59 | His career sounded very hit and miss ; he 'd switched from one subject to another at university , studying for a PhD but never completing it , and then shifted from job to job , looking for status rather than satisfaction . |
| 60 | You have doubtless heard from time to time some little of my movements on this side of the globe and if I have not written more fully and frequently to my friends in England I trust this will be attributed to the very pressing engagements which have fully occupied my time and mind . |