Example sentences of "transition [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transitions from g to g and from u to u states are forbidden ; only transitions from u to g or from g to u states are allowed . |
| 2 | Transitions from g to g and from u to u states are forbidden ; only transitions from u to g or from g to u states are allowed . |
| 3 | Gumperz ( 1977 ) , for example , has argued that such variables can be used to invoke domains of interpretation , e.g. to mark transitions from chat to business . |
| 4 | The extract from Clarke and Willis takes a different view , arguing for multiple transitions from youth to adulthood , and examining the place of schooling in that process , especially for working-class young people . |
| 5 | An alternative theory , still concerned with major transitions in relation to economic changes , is that which conceives the turning-point in social life as being the emergence and development of industrial society , in which the growth of modern science and technology plays a crucial role ( Aron , 1967 ) ; and a further extension of the theory , in more recent discussions of ‘ post-industrial ’ society , affirms even more strongly the overwhelming importance in the economy and society of the production of theoretical knowledge . |
| 6 | Bush accepted the resignation " with reluctance , regret , and a sense of personal loss " , and announced that Sununu would remain as counsellor to the President with Cabinet rank until March 1992 , in order to assist with the transition of responsibilities to his successor . |
| 7 | British military forces would only be used to ensure the smooth transition of power to properly elected local governments , and to protect the newly independent states from external predators . |
| 8 | Hurley suggests that endotoxin in the bloodstream is an epiphenomenon accompanying the transition of bacteria to their cell-wall deficient L-forms , and that it is these L-forms that are responsible for the symptoms . |
| 9 | The transition from child to adult is a sensitive matter to handle on both sides . |
| 10 | But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star . |
| 11 | He could n't remember the transition from sofa to bed , but he must have made it because he woke up there in total darkness with a headache and a blocked nose and a sense that something was not quite right . |
| 12 | When I read , later , Edwin Muir 's description in his Autobiography of his transition from Orkney to a Glasgow glue-factory , I read also a description of my own ( less conscious , more childish ) emotional state at the age of seven . |
| 13 | As in any other specialty , the transition from guesswork to proper science depends on a range of hospital based diagnostic services such as immunofluorescence , mycology , patch testing , and photo testing , and on close liaison with the pathology department . |
| 14 | The Tyne atmosphere , in the formation of which merchant navy officers have played a major role ( before the war transition from seamen to officer was not uncommon although it is very rare now ) , is well reproduced in a number of memoirs ( see Before the Box Boats by Captain A. W. King horn of Cullercoats , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Thousands of living species occupy every marine habitat from the shallowest to the deepest abyss , and , as every gardener knows who has tried to protect his vegetables against marauding hordes of snails and slugs , they have been remarkably successful in making the transition from sea to land . |
| 16 | The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role . |
| 17 | At a more modest level , an apparent weakness of the French system of training engineers , as compared with the British system , may prove an advantage in this transition from public to private sector employment . |
| 18 | In this section we look at the arguments of Daniel Bell ( 1973 , 1980 ) which remain the clearest and most influential account of the changes involved in the transition from industrialism to post-industrialism . |
| 19 | The transition from backswing to downswing is similar to a stagecoach driver whipping his horse team . |
| 20 | Conran 's transition from manufacturing to retailing was a gradual process . |
| 21 | But making the transition from user to supplier can be tricky . |
| 22 | Angkor Thom , erected under the reign of King Jayavarman VII , witnessed the transition from Hindu to Buddhism . |
| 23 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 24 | In my garden it has made a swift transition from weed to wild flower to flower . |
| 25 | They say they 've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer . |
| 26 | Its social bases include : ( i ) the crisis , for many artists , of the transition from patronage to the market ; ( ii ) the crisis , in certain arts , of the transition from handwork to machine production ( see Chapter 4 , below ) ; ( iii ) crises within both patronage and the market , in a period of intense and general social conflict ; ( iv ) the attachment of certain groups to a pre-capitalist and/or pre-democratic social order , in which some arts had been accorded privilege within a general privilege ; ( v ) the attachment of other groups to the democratization of the social order , as part of the process of general liberation and human enrichment to which the arts , if they were allowed , could contribute : ( vi ) a more general opposition , often overlapping and even seeming to unite these diverse political views , to the practices and values of a ‘ commercial ’ and ‘ mechanical ’ civilization , from which the practice and values of the arts could be distinguished . |
| 27 | As is so often the case , the transition from arms to feet is more difficult than expected , but a careful combination of undercutting , balance and barely breathing should see you right . |
| 28 | One game , called Net Trek , which has recently made the transition from PD to commercial product , uses sounds sampled from the Star Trek television series to accompany the user 's attempts to pilot around a galaxy of other Mac users , when all the machines are connected together by the network . |
| 29 | Another scene on the Wicker Arches during the transition from steam to electric in 1954 . |
| 30 | The means by which school-leavers made the transition from school to full-time wage-earning have been described , as have the criticisms of reformers who dubbed it ‘ haphazard ’ . |