Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a period when Residents had no clerks and were lucky if they possessed a typewriter , Lugard was listing some thirty different sets of records which either had to be kept or sent in , dealing with every conceivable aspect of a fully developed civil administration from postal matters to canoe registration . |
| 2 | Ideally , the cut from medium shot to close-up would come during the downward movement of the hand , but this degree of editing precision is often difficult for video . |
| 3 | Attitudes to homosexuality and lesbianism in our society range from complete rejection to acceptance of it as a valid alternative to a heterosexual preference . |
| 4 | Meals to suit every mood from self-service snacks to cafe society fare served in elegant luxury . |
| 5 | Next , the process of expansion would undermine all those institutions which expressed the highly personalised private enterprise which for him was the essence of capitalism ( such as the change in ownership from individual proprietorship to equity participation in large corporations ) , as well as destroy the protecting strata — the aristocracy , farmers and small business — on which it depended . |
| 6 | The lexical shift from immediate perception to inference is perhaps most obvious with the verb feel : with the to infinitive , as in ( 40 ) above , this verb is practically the equivalent of think . |
| 7 | Some commentators take a different view , seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness . |
| 8 | Reviewing the impact of these changes on claimant households , Svenson and McPherson ( 1988 ) calculated that the majority of lone-parent families ( 74 per cent ) and couples with children ( 81 per cent ) lost out financially in the shift from supplementary benefit to income support . |
| 9 | Given the Treasury 's computation that every 4% of devaluation is equivalent to 1% reduction in interest rates , it follows that monetary relaxation from Black Wednesday to date is already in excess of 4% . |
| 10 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 11 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 12 | A standard model of the progress of science sees it as a move from classificatory knowledge to knowledge which is more quantitative in character and able to express its laws in precise mathematical form . |
| 13 | Management felt also that an automated process would not be able to cope with the rapidly evolving product range and with fundamental changes in product technology , such as the move from dual-in-line packaging to surface mount technology in printed circuit board production . |
| 14 | There is a wish to see a move from residential care to home care and , and home help and community based care , but to see that it 's done in an orderly fashion which does n't destabilize the market that 's out there , and does n't put at risk the care of elderly people who are already using those existing homes . |
| 15 | Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side . |
| 16 | The ascent of the Labour Party in West Ham during the early interwar years can be thought coterminous with its emergence from political obscurity to power in the metropolis as a whole , but there are considerable theoretical and empirical problems in the equation that challenge any such identification . |
| 17 | Colorectal cancer develops through a complex process from hyperproliferative mucosa to adenoma and eventually to carcinoma . |
| 18 | This is why coaxial cable can more easily be used for a switched-star system , where the cable runs a short distance from switching station to TV set . |
| 19 | All viewers have a right to television awareness education from primary studies to university level . |
| 20 | In Sweden , a country which prides itself in the freedom of thought and action which it allows its citizens , education from elementary school to college and university is defined and controlled through state boards . |
| 21 | However , such is the current power and purpose of a team who 'd only ever won four times before the start of this season , that nothing less than victory will do to complete a remarkable transformation from perennial under-achievers to Championship top dogs . |
| 22 | In line with its notions of community crime prevention it saw the way forward to be shifting the emphasis from custodial institutions to punishment in the community . |
| 23 | Many were newspaper cuttings , ranging in content from dietetic hints to stock market forecasts . |
| 24 | We 're marking the release on video this week of the Dustin Hoffman movie Accidental Hero , which tells the story of a small-time petty thief 's rise from sleazy obscurity to fortitude and heroic deeds . |
| 25 | According to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities there was a massive 37.5 per cent increase in rent arrears in the six months immediately following the benefit changes in April 1988.37 Other benefit changes may have contributed to this increase in arrears : the change from supplementary benefit to income support ; the insistence that everyone should be required to pay at least 20 per cent of their rates ( community charge ) and all of their water rates ; and the replacement of urgent needs payments by social fund loans . |
| 26 | ‘ Fossils are found where special circumstances preserve animal life and there is a change from organic substance to mineral . |
| 27 | Falling standards of care may well result from a transfer of responsibility from professional agencies to family care . |
| 28 | Suppose , as is now common in logical semantics , we view a proposition as a function from possible worlds to truth values ( i.e. as an abstract assignment of the value true to just those states of affairs which the proposition correctly describes — see Allwood , Andersson & Dahl , 1977 : 20-3 for elementary exposition ) . |
| 29 | While street markets can easily adapt to changing demand from fresh vegetables to bric-a-brac , covered markets can present a greater problem . |
| 30 | Furthermore , of those explanations that incorporate biotic and microenvironmental as well as disturbance effects , the most balanced account is that of Grubb , who used the term ‘ regeneration niche ’ to cover all the factors that affect a plant during its career from fertilized egg to death . |