Example sentences of "[adv] from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evian water takes 15 years to filter down from Alpine snows to the town spring . |
| 2 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 3 | They follow roughly parallel courses down from high mountains to the coastal plain ; all have lochs serving as reservoirs ; all have roads , public or private , that extend far into the interior and there end ; none of them is accessible by road from the west and they can only be approached by wheeled traffic coming from the east . |
| 4 | Not only may the strength of the light vary , perhaps from full sunshine to overcast , but the colour of the light can also change . |
| 5 | There were indications that the method of manufacture changed during the sixth century , perhaps from itinerant craftsmen to workshops , implying a degree of centralisation . |
| 6 | Most of them had become marraines to one or more soldiers , according them benefits ranging merely from encouraging letters to parcels of food and woollies to the highest a woman can offer a man . |
| 7 | As we saw in section 2.3 the processes of decentralization took place not only from central regions to the regions of the north and west , but also within regions from large towns and conurbations to small towns and more rural areas . |
| 8 | Apart from the ethical concerns some people feel on this matter there is the pressing issue of the degree to which it is possible to extrapolate from one species to another , especially from non-human species to ourselves . |
| 9 | And that is what lies ahead in Latin American media — especially in television , and especially from big rivals to the north . |
| 10 | Mr and Mrs Crump , who until that moment had reigned serene in their social supremacy at the Swan , moved swiftly from slight disgruntlement to genuine delight as details of the new arrival 's pedigree , accoutrements , speech and manner were relayed to them by one or other of the scampering servants . |
| 11 | One allocation that would be both efficient and equitable in this sense would be an initial endowment at 1 where both A and B have the same X and Y. Since they face the same budget constraint , each can have what the other has so that any trades away from equal allocation to the contract curve must meet the reverse allocation test illustrated as part ( b ) of the figure . |
| 12 | The Soviet Union , for its part , was reportedly attracted by the potential of the Indonesian domestic market and , specifically , by the possibility that restraints on Indonesian military spending might lead to a shift in procurement away from Western armaments to less expensive Soviet ones . |
| 13 | Over time his sermons moved away from emotional appeals to more reasoned ones ; in this he had much in common with the British ‘ gentleman evangelist ’ of his day , like Brownlow North [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | Modern practice has moved away from official reference to two experts and an umpire so described , but the procedures are often quite similar in practice . |
| 15 | At the same time governments in most industrial nations have responded by focussing their R&D support away from applied programmes to longer term strategic research . |
| 16 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 17 | The fables moved away from pseudo-scientific intent to edification in the realm of morals . |
| 18 | Pressures from the DES and what in some cases amounted to directives from local authorities , led the colleges concerned to move away from outright hostility to testing out what degree of autonomy and protection for art and design would be forthcoming within the polytechnic structure . |
| 19 | And the third factor was the splintering of the collective voice of the Chiefs of Staff as decision-making swung away from operational problems to arguments over the Defence programmes . |
| 20 | Problems were also created as a result of its movement away from military contracts to a wider portfolio of private label customers looking better quality products . |
| 21 | In light of these findings , we suggest that social work needs to move away from profession-centred approaches to education and practice and towards a reconceptualization of its place in social welfare and social development efforts . |
| 22 | For example , a school may judge that developing ‘ lively and enquiring minds ’ among its students requires certain teaching styles , namely a move away from didactic teaching to active student participation . |
| 23 | There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted . |
| 24 | the emphasis of political discussion moved away from domestic problems to the international scene , although states like the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany were often used as symbols for forces existing in British politics . |
| 25 | This is , of course , only a tendency , and the move away from local policemen to larger , centralised policing may reduce this effect . |
| 26 | W. has breached the rules , the sanction has not been applied , W. is manifestly in control and the unit is reduced to proposing that they should move away from psychological coercion to offering reward for good behaviour . |
| 27 | In 1859 , when the Origin of Species had come out , the evidence from fossils was suggestive but very incomplete : geologists had sought to characterize strata by their fossils rather than to follow family trees through from early times to the present . |
| 28 | This concerns the stages a case goes through from initial instructions to its conclusion and the physical appearance of the file throughout that time . |
| 29 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 30 | The rats on the wharf behaved strangely , creeping to the edge of the planking , and trying to cross over from dry land to the boats . |