Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 2 | Brendan Daly moved from Defence to Social Welfare , Michael Woods from Social Welfare to Agriculture and Food , Michael O'Kennedy from Agriculture and Food to Labour , and Bertie Ahern from Labour to Finance in place of Reynolds . |
| 3 | I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz on first seeing Munchkinland — the scene when the screen changed from sepia to glorious Technicolor and Judy Garland spoke that immortal line , ‘ You know , Toto , I do n't believe we 're in Kansas any more . ’ |
| 4 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 5 | To a considerable extent manufacturing expansion over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century came in response to increasing demand , with overseas markets substantially supplementing the opportunities at home . |
| 6 | A further , if slightly different , anomaly existed in relation to judicial review . |
| 7 | A publisher had asked him to explain , some quarter of a century after the event , how he passed from scepticism to religious belief . |
| 8 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 9 | The coin went from hand to reluctant hand . |
| 10 | And , broadly , it continued to be accepted that the key to improvement lay in dedication to competitive enterprise , hard work and self-help , and that those unable to practice these virtues should be helped by their families or by voluntary charity . |
| 11 | During their visit they went on excursions to Styal Mill , Chester and Liverpool . |
| 12 | To emphasise the point , he said in relation to overall investment : |
| 13 | Muscle strips relaxed in response to electrical field stimulation with a pulse strength of 10 V and a pulse duration of 0.5 ms ( n=24 ) . |
| 14 | Age Concern wrote in December to social security minister Nicholas Scott expressing anger severely disabled people over 65 were ineligible for the 1993 Fund . |
| 15 | The hourglass shape of white leather inside it , raked from toes to low heel , was stained pale red , and still looked damp . |
| 16 | Dr Akhtar pointed to incitement to racial hatred , libel , obscenity , and breaches of national security as areas in which the liberal state bans publication . |