Example sentences of "moves [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book highlights such subjects as animism , Jewish , Christian and Hellenistic ‘ mythologies ’ ; the realities of health , sickness and death ; of nature — its seasons ( notably Spring and Winter ) and its glories , as well as its decadence ( we find no evidence for Djwa 's contention that ‘ the book moves through cycles of winter death followed by spring rebirth , ’ any more than for her ‘ structural myth ’ or ‘ controlling Orpheus myth ’ which form the foundation for her critique of the book ) ; of rationality and madness ; loneliness and intimacy ; of truth and treachery , prayer and protest ; of prophet and priest , doctors and teachers , angels and devils ; freedom and slavery , sainthood and sinning , wonder and despair , war and peace , love and loss , beauty and brutality ; regret and humour ; sensuality and discipline , joy and sadness ; of the greatness of God and his creation , and the pitiful smallness and incompetency of man ; the city and the breadth of nature itself : sea and air , rivers and countryside ; savagery and urbanity ; loss and its disappointing pangs . |
| 2 | Reopening of newspapers and Chamber of Commerce — Moves towards abolition of Army |
| 3 | In the Gospel , Luke shows how Jesus moves towards Jerusalem in order for all this to take place through the death and resurrection of Jesus . |
| 4 | Therefore , the extent to which the share moves in response to stock market , macroeconomic , industrial and company stimuli is very important . |
| 5 | Profits are restrained , but the minimum wage moves in line with inflation , so few investments are made . |
| 6 | The 400 joule answer is correct if the load is moved from floor to floor , or the man always holds the load and moves from floor to floor . |
| 7 | The trilogy represents raft , shelter and spires and moves from dusk through night to dawn . |
| 8 | The former racing driver and industrialist Lady Denton — who entered the Lords last year — becomes a junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry ; Lady Blatch moves from Environment to Minister of State for Education ; and Baroness Cumberlege becomes a junior minister at Health . |
| 9 | The British Government still regards renewable energy as the Cinderella option , particularly when it moves from research to commercial options . |
| 10 | The result would be a diagram which becomes ever more precise and explicit as it moves from left to right , with a long list of fairly narrowly defined functions on the right-hand side . |
| 11 | He moves from transport to employment , swapping jobs with Frank Dobson . |
| 12 | When your class moves from lesson to lesson , look out for anyone walking on their own and walk with them . |
| 13 | Jean-Baptiste Lafond moves from wing to centre and his brother Jean-Marc returns to Leicester for a second successive fraternal link in the fixture . |
| 14 | It moves from department to department in a pre-arranged sequence like the baton in a relay race . |
| 15 | This type of alteration in the appearance of the eye goes on all day , as the animal moves from light to shade and back again , and it is so common a shift that it tends to obscure the other pupil changes that are taking place . |
| 16 | In the role of parry in The Fisher King , his latest film , Robin moves from practitioner to patient , a journey through the external trappings of madness to the inner recesses of a divine dementia . |
| 17 | The teacher moves from group to group , occasionally spotlighting one of them , saying " Let's see what 's happening in different parts of the town " and then reflecting on what 's been heard and seen : " Feelings are running high . |
| 18 | As its diamond-tipped drill moves from place to place along a rock band that stretches through the Mweelrea Mountains and the Sheeffry Hills , local concern is growing . |
| 19 | Water moves from crumb to crust |
| 20 | Honey bees , for example , regularly use the Sun as their compass , compensating for its changing azimuth as it moves from east to west . |
| 21 | I loved the trees , but having this forest next door , made sure our garden only saw the sun as he moves from east to west early in the morning . |