Example sentences of "from a [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are employment figures alone sufficient to infer that the economy has shifted from a goods to a service economy , that the economy has moved from an industrial stage to a post-industrial stage . |
| 2 | Ingres Japan has scored a coup with Canon Sales Ltd , with the decision by Canon Inc to move its sales management system from a mainframe to a Unix system running Ingres . |
| 3 | The journey to Mantes , for each of them , was cut from a day to a couple of hours . |
| 4 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 5 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 6 | And a secondment could be any length of time from a day to a week or more . |
| 7 | As I see it , the ‘ passivity ’ is in one sense a consequence of the decision to write the sonnets from a man to a man — as Sonnet 20 made clear , no ‘ activity ’ is contemplated . |
| 8 | ‘ More like Beorn , ’ he said , ‘ the skin-changer in The Hobbit who could turn from a man to a bear . ’ |
| 9 | They did n't ask how they get from a man to a woman not that knows anyway but |
| 10 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 11 | My ultimate desire — as it was with Seve and all my pros — was the perfect bag ; catching every ball without letting one hit the ground , from a wedge to a driver . |
| 12 | The benefit of getting it there early and a little leap word which takes you from a feature to a benefit |
| 13 | ( A factor of i provides the phase difference of n/2 necessary to shift from a crest to a zero . ) |
| 14 | A householder received a positive response from a salesman to a request for a gas supply , and , it was discovered that the property lay outside the scope of the project . |
| 15 | She did this amazing transformation from a dragon to a buttercup , and within seconds Mrs Foster offered to have her in her suite . |
| 16 | The Boston economy expanded rapidly during the 1970s and the shift from a manufacturing to a service base accelerated during that time . |
| 17 | You may be called upon to devise anything from a competition to a collection of recipes ( taking expert advice if you are wise ) . |
| 18 | This collection had been formed in the second half of the eighteenth century by John Hunter who was largely responsible for raising surgery from a craft to a profession in England , and was the greatest anatomist and physiologist of his day . |
| 19 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 20 | One can just as reasonably move it from a church to a gallery , from a museum to a bedroom … |
| 21 | At lower pressures the material changes from a metal to an insulator at around 8 1 K , as the temperature is lowered . |
| 22 | A sales channel is merely the route that goods take through the selling process from a supplier to a customer . |
| 23 | If the marriage has been timed to coincide with starting a family , the pregnancy , or the move from a pair to a threesome , may have . |
| 24 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 25 | These dogs are absolutely fearless and will tackle anything from a weasel to a fox without a second thought . |
| 26 | It is the period during which a boy or girl also grows from a child to an adult in body , mind and personality — a considerable transformation . |
| 27 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 28 | Moving from a townhouse to a country cottage can create all sorts of problems . |
| 29 | Mr Davenport now worries that re-engineering is passing from a fad to a cliché . |
| 30 | The district was sinister enough at any time ; now , with the feeling that any and every form of menace , from a cut-throat to a coal-hole , might be within inches for all I could tell , my small remaining resource of courage were exhausted within minutes . |