Example sentences of "[noun sg] move [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the choristers sang a low chant in the background , the priest moved from one vessel to the next , praying for the fishermen to be kept safe from harm , and asking that the catch over the next year may be bountiful . |
| 2 | To suggest that what they were doing before was of low priority is a misleading simplification — could one for example conclude that if a professor moves from one department to another he does so because the former is of low quality ? |
| 3 | In burrowing forms the mouth moves to one ( forward ) side and the anus to the back , which is obviously a sensible arrangement . |
| 4 | A standardised set of operations , carried out intermittently , as each batch moves from one operation to the next . |
| 5 | One area of normal animation that can cause some heartaches is backgrounding and the scrolling of scenery as action moves from one place to another . |
| 6 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 7 | The match started and the men watched intently as play moved from one end of the field to the other . |
| 8 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 9 | You can safely let your hero move from one person to another fiercely demanding what he needs to know . |
| 10 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 11 | And it seems to me there is no reason to suppose that because there are more houses , the propensity to move from one house to another declines . |
| 12 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 13 | The curtain moved to one side , and a woman 's hand touched my shoulder . |
| 14 | The Magistrate 's eye moved from one doctor to the other over the passive rows of tattered skeletons and he forgot for a moment that he was as thin and ragged as they were . |
| 15 | A point moving in one dimension produces a straight line . |
| 16 | In contrast , the very rich , who themselves in their travelling have perversely become a kind of nomad moving from one luxurious place to another , are the poorest spiritually . |
| 17 | Hot and cold plunge baths were provided and it was the custom to move from one room to another , sometimes bathing , sometimes playing games or exercising , or simply relaxing in the warmth and enjoying oneself . |
| 18 | When the current and intended future positions have been established , the next step is to formulate alternative strategies to enable the business to move from one position to another . |
| 19 | Since one tooth pitch is equal to 360/p degrees , where p is the number of rotor teeth , the distance moved for one change of excitation must be : Step length=360/Np degrees ( 1.1 ) The motor illustrated in Fig.1.3 has three stacks and eight rotor teeth , so the step length is 15 degrees . |
| 20 | As they looked , one of the rocks in the distance moved to one side and stopped , then moved again . |
| 21 | And sometimes — ’ She looked away from Ben towards the corner of the room where a picture was hanging at a slight angle , and her head moved to one side as if to see it better . |
| 22 | The men in the gateway moved to one side and a woman came forward . |
| 23 | She saw a lot of his back , of his distinctive head moving from one group to another . |
| 24 | We can , then , apply his metaphor to our studies : ‘ Thus the ‘ magic circles ’ pivot , shifting as a person moves from one place in society to another . ’ |
| 25 | The fairly long seek times of CD-ROM , caused by its CLV retrieval system , can still cause pauses of between a half and one second while the read head moves from one part of the disc to another . |
| 26 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 27 | One method of reducing the size is to adopt a large-scale version of the four-pen plotter idea where the paper moves in one axis and the pen moves in the other . |
| 28 | It concerns the development of a simulation model of a railway level crossing which , in the simplified version presented here , assumes a single railway line crossing a road on which traffic moves in one direction only . |
| 29 | To Caroline home is a room for her possessions , abandoned by her Mum and Dad as a baby , she spent her life moving from one set of parents to another . |
| 30 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |