Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , the juvenile labour exchange legislation served to institutionalize the transition from school to full-time employment , and in so doing provided it with priests and rituals ; the transition became a rite de passage and , therefore , brought this aspect of the adolescent 's life into a formal arena where it was subject to critical scrutiny . |
| 2 | Anyway , Nigel , who loved trout , used to drain the millpond from time to time to rid it of some of the accumulated silt and then just pick them up . |
| 3 | Warren Beatty , as stilted as ever , manages to carry the film from start to finish without ever threatening to manipulate his chiselled features into more than one expression . |
| 4 | A beastie to carry the burden From cherub to abstract flying muse , Ruth Wishart reveals only the fifth logo to be attached to the Edinburgh International Festival |
| 5 | These details make it clear that Beveridge regarded young workers as constituting a separate source of labour supply which required specialized provision and that he agreed with the ASEA and the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers in wishing to see the transition from school to work treated as an educational matter ( though not necessarily one controlled by the Board of Education ) . |
| 6 | The tall slender piers support a high vault and there is no triforium or clerestory wall to obstruct the vista from end to end and from side to side of the church , only a forest of delicate piers . |
| 7 | The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets . |
| 8 | Such surveys routinely now make use of various inductive statistics to secure the generalisation from sample to population . |
| 9 | We chose to tackle the walk from north to south , not least because the route passes our home in the south — though the excellent official guide provides duplicate maps and instructions for waling it the other way . |
| 10 | This collusion between writers and critics was not deliberate , let alone coordinated in any systematic fashion , yet , in cultural and intellectual terms , the principal outcome was to revolutionize the literary landscape by initiating new , evaluative criteria to chart the movement from realism to modernism : Flaubert is also considered by Barthes to be the pivotal figure in this transformation towards an apparently less transparent writing . |
| 11 | It took about six weeks for the fever to go and then we got sulphur candles to fumigate the house from top to bottom . |
| 12 | Redcar 's Stead Hospital has been able to create a home from home to help rehabilitate patients , thanks to the support of the town 's Rotary Club , which raised half of the £38,000 needed to provide a therapy suite . |
| 13 | Part of the procedure is to re-present the image from time to time as its shape becomes clearer : ‘ In the days of Arab government Zuwaya distributed tax revenues to household heads , so that there should be no treasury ; and you did this ; and you did that … |
| 14 | After adequate dilatation of the tract , patency was maintained by the insertion of one or more Palmaz stents ( Johnson and Johnson Interventional Systems , Edinburgh , UK ) to cover the tract from portal to hepatic veing ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 15 | Similarly , Zuwaya claimed that they had had a Turkish licence — an exclusive licence , no less — to conduct traders and travellers who wished to cross the desert from Benghazi to Black Africa . |
| 16 | Where there is not sufficient space to fit a rail from side to side , pull-out rails ( such as the extending wardrobe rail , or sliding wardrobe rail from Woodfit ) can be fitted from front to back to provide hanging space . |
| 17 | Moscovici has offered the examples of ‘ charisma ’ and ‘ split brain' and particularly psychoanalytic terms , in order to illustrate the passage from science to social representation : ‘ In each of these cases and in many others we are confronted with social representations that are created and shared by the members of our society as myths and ‘ common sense ’ were shared in the past ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 954 ) . |
| 18 | The development of the nouveau roman is often claimed to illustrate the evolution from modernism to postmodernism — a transition which has been perceived and articulated by several of the nouveaux romanciers themselves . |
| 19 | Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 – 9 ) concluded on the basis of London English/Creole switching data which they studied , that there was a tendency for speakers to use a switch from Creole to London English within a turn " to change from the main theme of the conversation to some kind of subroutine or secondary material : a check on shared information , a search for a missing name or date , a comment indicating how the adjacent material should be interpreted . " |
| 20 | Does it tell it to draw a line from point to another Yeah . |
| 21 | This group covers personal items used to protect the wearer from top to toe against specific hazards . |
| 22 | ‘ She used to read The Times from cover to cover . |
| 23 | Yet there would undoubtedly remain a considerable amount of discretion , both for judges and juries applying the law , if the words ‘ sufficient to reduce the offence from murder to manslaughter ’ were retained , and at the sentencing stage , in response to the particular combination of factors in each case . |
| 24 | If his head tends to drop forward towards his plate as he eats , it may help to put the plate on a raised block on the table to reduce the distance from plate to face . |
| 25 | ‘ The ’ broad gauge means Brunel 's magnificent 7 ft track , the largest serious gauge ever conceived — I exclude dockyard cranes and a daft idea of Hitler 's to build a line from east to west Europe with a 4 metre gauge ( over 13 feet ! ) , later scaled down to 3 metres ( nearly 10 feet ) . |
| 26 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
| 27 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 28 | The basic mechanism is to build an edge from left to right . |
| 29 | One means was actually to take control of the youth 's entry into full-time wage-earning , in order to control the transition from school to work and , by offering vocational guidance and encouraging attendance at continuation schools together with an after-care system , to set initial standards with regard to attitudes and behaviour . |
| 30 | 1.26 The 1988 Act requires the Secretaries of State to revise the curriculum from time to time ; we assume that NCC and CCW , among others , will advise them on this , and that such revision will include attainment targets , the allocation of statements of attainment to levels , programmes of study and methods of assessment . |