Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the coastal town of Easky , two life-sized statues of cloth-capped old men appeared as if turned from flesh to blue-grey stone on the spot , one wheeling a bike , the other resting on a seat . |
| 2 | Transferred from goat to human being , the eyelid could be tied to an erect penis before intercourse in order to provide the woman with a stimulating tickling sensation . |
| 3 | Flaubert was emblematic of a further development in modernization , in which the referent of the work of art , having evolved from the timeless and ideal to the contingent , now had moved from contingency to virtual insignificance . |
| 4 | The proposition that industrial co-operatives can create and distribute wealth at least as well and probably better than the traditional forms of industry had already been argued from cause to probable effect . |
| 5 | With AIDS and HIV , the balance on Switchboard has shifted from Cloud-cuckoo-land to grim reality . |
| 6 | Mr Jillings said that since FIMBRA was established five years ago , the chief danger confronting the investor has shifted from fraud to bad advice , caused , he said , ‘ by a lack of experience , competence and training ’ . |
| 7 | The status of the golf pro was elevated from serfdom to secular divinity in 20 years . |
| 8 | Moreover , death caused by poisoning , the most pre-meditated of all murders , was exempted from liability to capital punishment . |
| 9 | ‘ In the past decade , the shipping business , generally , has progressed from dock-to-dock to door-to-door concepts involving inter-modal transport such as trains and trucks . |
| 10 | One of the best known sites is at Villeneuve-la-Garenne , Paris , which has been converted from oil to geothermal heating , with an annual saving of 3,400 tonnes of oil . |
| 11 | The one on Chuirn Island at the south east of Islay was established in 1907 and converted from oil to dissolved acetylene in 1911 . |
| 12 | Trafalgar bought the Port Glasgow yard from British Shipbuilders for just £12 million in 1984 , soon after it was converted from shipbuilding to offshore construction work . |
| 13 | Four years had elapsed since that splendid wedding but somehow although she herself had passed from childhood to early womanhood , Anne had still pictured Richard as he had been then . |
| 14 | What we see is a little temple-state , the economic and social structures of which had been shattered by the recent wars between Antiochus III and Ptolemy V. Palestine had passed from Egyptian to Syrian control . |
| 15 | Even if upward social mobility amongst non-political elites is possible , the absence of any alternation of political parties in power may also breed anti-system frustration amongst the leadership groups of minorities that are permanently excluded from access to governmental power . |
| 16 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 17 | Even Algernon 's expression changed from sneer to genuine laughter . |