Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] from [noun] 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 inadequate training programmes which meant that there were inadequate staff to support the move from institutions to the community . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Such surveys routinely now make use of various inductive statistics to secure the generalisation from sample to population . |
| 10 | Public attention was galvanized by a publicity gambit from the American distributors of The Phantom of the Opera , who persuaded a brigade of British soldiers to escort the print from Southampton to London . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It took about six weeks for the fever to go and then we got sulphur candles to fumigate the house from top to bottom . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This , naturally , magnifies the impact on one-month delay in settling invoices is to lower the NPV from £0.1198 to £0.0759 , a reduction of 37% , while a prolonged two- month delay further lowers the NPV to £0.0328 , barely a quarter of the initial estimate . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After some enquiries from Peter Thomas , who at that time was in the process of forming the Skyfame Aircraft Museum at Staverton , Glos , the Swedish company decided to donate the Firefly to the Museum , providing that sufficient funds could be raised to finance the flight from Sweden to England . |
| 21 | To fill the gap from mid-July to mid-August , grow ‘ Pandora ’ , which needs to be cross-pollinated by a variety like ‘ Cambridge Favourite ’ . |
| 22 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 23 | This group covers personal items used to protect the wearer from top to toe against specific hazards . |
| 24 | ‘ She used to read The Times from cover to cover . |
| 25 | Anxiety over this question surfaced almost immediately in a dispute about the size of retinue to accompany the king from Ludlow to his coronation . |
| 26 | Anxiety over this question surfaced almost immediately in a dispute about the size of retinue to accompany the king from Ludlow to his coronation . |
| 27 | The organisers expect 500,000 spectators to line the route from Blackheath to Westminster Bridge . |
| 28 | Londesborough was sold to George Hudson , the Railway King , in 1845 , who wanted to build the line from York to Market Weighton . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |