Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [noun] to [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 2 | Certainly , if it were true , it would readily enable explanations for the simultaneous presence of daily and ultradian rhythms in the adult and the switch from ultradian to daily rhythms during the months after birth ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 3 | Beyond a general shift of crime from town to country police ca n't say why Gloucestershire 's such a prime target |
| 4 | The CL colours produced in calcite and dolomite by Mn 2 + range from yellow to dark reds and pinks . |
| 5 | Expenditure on national insurance benefits , benefits for which claimants become entitled because of their contribution record , covering a range of help from unemployment to old-age pensions , has risen by 400 per cent over the past thirty-five years up to 1984. -5 . |
| 6 | The shift from manufacturing to service industries has been even more marked in terms of jobs : in 1950 manufacturing employed 35 per cent of the total in civil employment but this had fallen to 26 per cent by 1981 ; at the same time , jobs in the service sector rose from 47 per cent to 60 per cent of total employment . |
| 7 | This is due , he argued , to decreasing employment opportunities with the shift from goods-producing to service-producing activities and the loss of 7 million unskilled jobs , and the undesirable concentration effects of this . |
| 8 | Wycliffe had transferred his attention from statements to cheque stubs . |
| 9 | A change in the type of materials being used in the construction , such as a move from steel to fibre-reinforced plastics , can result in a change in design drafting rules and drawing techniques leading right through to the replacement of complete sections of manufacturing machines and skilled men . |
| 10 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 11 | O Olayan D L L stuff , I can just whip stuff from spreadsheets to word processors and st stick it on a clipboard . |
| 12 | Addressing the 25th congress of the environmental federation France Nature Environnement in Paris , he said he wanted an understanding of ecology and the environment to form part of education from primary to university levels , and in particular at the " grandes écoles " responsible for educating the elite of French officialdom . |
| 13 | Despite the reversing trend in deaf education from sign to oral methods , the social standing of deaf people who relied on fingerspelling and sign language was given a tremendous boost by the dignity and bearing of people like William Agnew ( who was on ‘ fingerspelling terms ’ with Queen Victoria ) , the Docharty and Williamson brothers , James Paul , Alex McGregor and , in England , Sir Arthur Fairbairn , Thomas Davidson , S. Bright Lucas and the Reverend W. Pearce amongst others . |
| 14 | At the same time , he will be able to assess the impact on a firm of a change in its marketing strategy , for example a change from sales to production subsidiaries abroad . |
| 15 | Another characteristic of western European parliamentary democracies is the pattern of fairly frequent change from socialist to conservative governments and vice-versa . |
| 16 | But the brawl continued continued for several hours , because the police , who had only limited manpower , confined their role to merely stopping the trouble from spreading to other areas . |
| 17 | Despite the impression given by some authors ( e.g. Brimson , 1987 ) , a company does not necessarily develop its production methods along a continuum from JIT to CIM systems . |
| 18 | Diessenhofen ( the Romans called it Gunodorum ) has a fine old clock tower , under which the road from Schaffhausen to Konstanz passes , then Stein-am-Rhein comes into view on the left bank . |
| 19 | The VHPB considers that local policies to prevent infection from exposure to blood-borne pathogens should be developed in collaboration with those actually working in occupational health and infection control . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the process of ‘ de-industrialization ’ , typified by the shift of employment from manufacturing to service industries and the related growth of female participation in the labour force , and of white-collar as opposed to manual occupations , has been accompanied by fundamental changes in the location of economic activity , both locally and regionally . |
| 21 | There has been a shift of employment from manufacturing to service industries . |
| 22 | Tandem expects the technology to eliminate any remaining unplanned downtime users experience as well as any planned downtime needed for housekeeping chores like changing operating systems on the fly , a key facility in any mission-critical application from E-mail to fare collections . |
| 23 | The White House is under pressure from Congress to show results from recent secret contacts with Beijing . |
| 24 | On 21 September , Gracey ( whose division was not yet all in Saigon ) issued a general order stating that the transition from war to peace conditions would be carried out all over southern Indo-China under his command . |
| 25 | Alongside ( and reinforcing ) the shift in responsibility for residential care from health to other agencies was , therefore , a shift to social security budgets as a major source of development monies . |
| 26 | Another distinguishing feature of casual working , and one likely to influence courts in their conclusion that it is a form of self-employment , is the exclusion of the worker from access to fringe benefits . |
| 27 | As for audiences , ‘ viewing television is a very different activity from listening to sound broadcasts , ’ explained Maurice Gorham , the new head of BBC TV , in 1946 ( BBC , 1946 , p. 26 ) . |
| 28 | It has been the policy of successive governments since 1976 to move the balance of expenditure from hospital to community services . |
| 29 | Far-sighted high achievers have slowly been transferring their energy from employment to other activities , just to meet this moment . |
| 30 | If overall losses are estimated at 1000 kg per ha per year , then the 20–25 million ha under shifting cultivation or permanent conversion from forest to other uses , generate more than the total nitrogen delivered by rivers to the oceans . |