Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
| 2 | Then I asked , as we were going to go from century to century , if I could be allowed to collect a few bits of paraphernalia as we went along — odd little items that had taken my fancy which would then turn up in other stories . |
| 3 | For those who are going to progress from reformation in faith to reformation in feeling Hilton brings into focus a vivid sense of the existential insecurity of the soul in the world . |
| 4 | Now it 's obviously going to vary from establishment to establishment , but do you feel that we perhaps still have some way to go ? |
| 5 | Peter Eatherley , head of T&L 's speciality sweeteners division , admits that food and drinks customers are not going to switch from aspartame to sucralose overnight . |
| 6 | Indeed , for a country struggling to emerge from years of war , the election may be a mixed blessing . |
| 7 | The cab was , very gently , beginning to sway from side to side . |
| 8 | Above us the sky is beginning to turn from black to purple , and the walls of the canyon are faintly visible as immense dark shapes looming overhead . |
| 9 | It stood four square , its dark red walls half covered with large-leafed Virginia creeper just beginning to change from green to gold and russet colours . |
| 10 | By the end of the 18th century , however , the emphasis was beginning to change from fieldwork to excavation . |
| 11 | Her eyes , threatening to turn from amber to gold as the two of them sat there over a casual dinner on her balcony , briefly dared him to develop the theme , just before she dropped them . |
| 12 | ‘ but an excess of out door ceremony tended and still tends to prevent the female from acquiring the proper use of her limbs , and of learning to bound from rock to rock with the celerity of the fleecy rangers of the mountains . ’ |
| 13 | Many young people who carry on the habit on their own , after first experimenting with friends , are trying to escape from unhappiness at home , perhaps because their parents are quarrelling . |
| 14 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |