Example sentences of "shifted from [art] [noun] [prep] " 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 Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature .
3 It is our intention to explore the hypothesis that public perceptions of marriage have shifted from an emphasis on its public/institutional to its private/relational aspects .
4 Similarly , the use of the demonstrative of proximity " this ' can be seen as reflecting the speaker 's perception at the time of the narrated event , in which case the spatial deictic centre is temporarily shifted from the location of the I as speaker to that of the I as character in the story .
5 Concurrently biliary cholesterol was shifted from the vesicular to the non-vesicular carrier(s) while the cholesterol/phospholipid ratio of the remaining vesicles was progressively lowered .
6 The fulcrum of action now shifted from the society to the committee in London .
7 In many cases , as illustrated by examples from a few industries , the issue of the advantages of scale has shifted from the level of the factory to the firm as a whole .
8 The fact that activities can be shifted from the public to the private sector ( and vice-versa ) suggests that the classification of functions or institutions as public or private according to their intrinsic nature is not the way to decide the scope of public law .
9 As a consequence , sales pressure has shifted from the ironmongery towards the software , supplies and services that go with it .
10 Since the introduction of the banking code for personal customers in December 1991 , responsibility for disputed transactions on lost or stolen credit cards or cash cards has shifted from the customer to the bank .
11 Moreover , in the stress on the pluralism of institutions and practices that organise sexuality , he goes further towards a neo-functionalism , and Foucault at times seems in danger of meeting up , as Nicos Poulantzas has put it , ‘ with an old tradition of Anglo-Saxon sociology and political science , running from functionalism to institutionalism — from Parsons , to Merton , Dahl , Lasswell , and Etzioni — a tradition in which the centre of analysis is shifted from the state towards the ‘ pluralism of micropowers ’ . ’
12 Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers .
13 It was , after all , as long ago as 1899 that John Dewey enunciated the principle of his ‘ Copernican revolution ’ in education whereby , just as ‘ the astronomical centre shifted from the earth to the sun ’ , so ‘ In this case the child becomes the sun about which the appliances of education revolve ; he is the centre about which they are organised . ’
14 Firstly , the endorsement of penal as distinct from prison reform implied that the target for change had shifted from the prison to the criminal justice process as a whole .
15 Complexity will be shifted from the ingredient to the container .
16 As a result , the state of illiquidity is partly shifted from the enterprises to the banks .
17 But the domain has shifted from the world of molecules to a larger scale .
18 In the twentieth century the focus of government policy shifted from the judiciary to the police , and few changes were made in the structure or procedure of the courts .
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