Example sentences of "have move [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | News that the current account on the UK balance of payments had moved slightly into surplus during June , for the first time since February 1987 , also helped to increase dealings on the London stock market , where the FT-Actuaries All-Share Index reached a new all-time peak of 1,238 on July 29 . |
2 | ( An interesting confluence also took place between the development of classical music , which by now had moved away from tonality by vastly enlarging its range , and the coloured musicians ' microtonality . ) |
3 | The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street . |
4 | Showell Styles balanced the junior tales about Septimus Quinn with a sequence of adult novels built round a middle-aged naval officer who , at thirty-three , had moved only from midshipman to the unsatisfactory rank of acting lieutenant because of intermittent periods of unemployment at the end of the eighteenth century and a sad lack of useful patronage . |
5 | In the past two weeks America and its allies have moved closer to war with Iraq . |