Example sentences of "[noun sg] move [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is worth noting , however , that just as the teaching force moved from co-operation to conflict , so did many of the local authorities .
2 ‘ Our guiding element could be the Durutti 's Brigade moving from village to village , liquidating the bourgeois elements and leaving the workers to see to their own organization . ’
3 ‘ Our idea is not to change the nature of the force to move from peacekeeping to peacemaking , ’ said Jean-Bernard Merimee , the ambassador of France , whose forces have suffered the most casualties in the Balkans .
4 The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards .
5 I watched his silhouette moving from seat to seat , watching the others , shuffling and sidling closer , sometimes stopping as if uncertain , but then moving again until he was next to someone .
6 The teacher moves from group to group , occasionally spotlighting one of them , saying " Let's see what 's happening in different parts of the town " and then reflecting on what 's been heard and seen : " Feelings are running high .
7 Like an out-take from Falcon Crest , Souness and his wife moved from villa to mansion and back again , but his incurable obsession with football ultimately led to divorce and to a painful separation which distanced Souness from his children .
8 He was still conscious and was moaning loudly , his head moving from side to side .
9 Then my father slowly raised his rifle and there was the tiger , padding towards us along a narrow game trail , his head moving from side to side .
10 Therefore , the extent to which the share moves in response to stock market , macroeconomic , industrial and company stimuli is very important .
11 Water moves from crumb to crust
12 The separate rooms , the doors of which open and close as part of the programme after they have given visitors the chance to move from room to room , begin with the sense of smell .
13 As its diamond-tipped drill moves from place to place along a rock band that stretches through the Mweelrea Mountains and the Sheeffry Hills , local concern is growing .
14 The Secretary of State for Transport , Malcolm Rifkind , has signalled a shift in government transport policy by declaring his intention to encourage freight traffic to move from road to rail , in part by ending British Rail 's monopoly on freight , to improve public transport in cities and to investigate " road pricing " to cut congestion .
15 The brain 's problem is to convert this ambiguous information about the movement of edges through the visual field into an unambiguous representation of the movement of an object , in this case a diamond moving from left to right .
16 A diamond moving from left to right , but viewed through one of the two small apertures , will appear to move either to the lower right or the upper left .
17 There are also connotations , however , of freedom from fear , freedom from the boredom of having to deal with work for which the learner has no motivation , freedom to move from activity to activity as desired .
18 This type of alteration in the appearance of the eye goes on all day , as the animal moves from light to shade and back again , and it is so common a shift that it tends to obscure the other pupil changes that are taking place .
19 Partly it was normal Arab volatility , their ability to move from elation to depression , rage to calm , in the space of a few bewildering seconds .
20 The party moved from church to house .
21 When your class moves from lesson to lesson , look out for anyone walking on their own and walk with them .
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