Example sentences of "[noun sg] to move [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 2 | The first department to move onto three shift operation some time ago was the Wilton weaving . |
| 3 | At the national executive committee inquest , Roy Hattersley won nods of approval for his argument that an attempt to move towards Liberal Democrat policies , in the hope of winning over Liberal Democrat voters , was politically simplistic . |
| 4 | It is easier to understand it as an attempt to move away from something already characteristic of the community than as an attempt to move towards some outside idealization ( compare my comments on avoidance of stigma in Chapter 2.6 , above ) . |
| 5 | I think there is , there is an attempt to move in that direction for a set of ideological reasons . |
| 6 | The ‘ Intercom Quartet ’ represents an attempt to move in this direction by exploring the cognitive and cultural consequences of contemporary developments in technology . |
| 7 | As studies of human impact and reviews of the magnitude of this impact encouraged physical geography to move towards applied problems it was necessary to alter attitudes to physical environment and this occurred as a result of three tendencies . |
| 8 | Bu but basically we are , we are now going for land reform and if the , if th th the momentum from this is coming from the spontaneous actions of the peasants themselves , and if it 's not coming then we 've got ta give them the guidance to move in that direction . |
| 9 | Police in riot gear used their powers under the Public Order Act to move on three hundred travellers from Enstone aerodrome … an act which means Police can move on travellers where there are more than twelve vcehicles camped … powers the Home and Office and certain Police forces beleiev are tough enough . |
| 10 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 11 | All objects have a propensity to move in straight lines , upwards or downwards , towards their natural place . |
| 12 | And it seems to me there is no reason to suppose that because there are more houses , the propensity to move from one house to another declines . |
| 13 | Charles Gray , president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , said disclosures in The Scotsman that the Scottish Office now accepted that costs and savings had been miscalculated demanded a rethink of the entire plan to move to single-tier councils . |
| 14 | That is an extreme case but a marketing man may subtly resist the plan to move from premium pricing to commodity pricing , or he may sabotage the plan to squeeze more profit out of old products rather than spend money on new ones . |
| 15 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 16 | A satisfying way to bring up your double century — Gordon Greenidge hooks Neil Foster off the end of his nose to move from 197 to 203 . |
| 17 | Hot and cold plunge baths were provided and it was the custom to move from one room to another , sometimes bathing , sometimes playing games or exercising , or simply relaxing in the warmth and enjoying oneself . |
| 18 | A. If you are a tenant of a public landlord , such as a local authority , new town or housing association , and if you have a pressing need to move to another local authority area for a job or social reasons ( for example , because you are elderly or handicapped ) , you should ask your landlord whether you can be nominated for a move under the National Mobility Scheme . |
| 19 | John Moore , then Social Services Secretary , set this out explicitly in a key speech in autumn 1987 , when he argued the need to move from social protection towards attacking dependency . |
| 20 | When the current and intended future positions have been established , the next step is to formulate alternative strategies to enable the business to move from one position to another . |
| 21 | There was hardly room to move for large chairs and cupboards . |
| 22 | And there is definitely room to move into comparable organisations . |
| 23 | She felt no desire to move at all . |
| 24 | A keenly stated desire to move into some area of specialization is a necessity , and , as a result , uniform patrol work becomes synonymous with failure and punishment . |
| 25 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 26 | ALAN McCann and Philip Murray won the Newry Club 's Circuit of Down Rally last night to move within two points of the leaders in the WS Mercer Northern Ireland navigation championship . |
| 27 | The making of a modern state provided new opportunities for peasants with some education to move into lower-middle-class occupations . |
| 28 | It is quite a shock to move from this charming , if slightly aimless stuff back into the original cacophonous maelstrom . |
| 29 | There have been many occasions on the Dee when I 've used a waggler , not for distance , but to get a bait to move through slow water made worse by abstraction . |
| 30 | Hartlepool have a chance to move into seventh place when they play Stockport County at Victoria Ground tonight . |