Example sentences of "[adv] from a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show an increased awareness that a first draft is malleable , eg by changing the form in which the material is cast , eg from a story to a playscript , or by moving text around ( either on paper or on a computer screen ) , or by altering sentence structure or choice of vocabulary . |
| 2 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 3 | Once every six months the Profitboss takes his team away to a hotel for a two- or three-day residential workshop , perhaps from a Thursday to Saturday . |
| 4 | As the MIND report concludes , not only must the system be made more user friendly , but it must move away from a supply-led to a consumer-oriented approach . |
| 5 | The Ego wants a loving relationship with the sole aim of feeling ‘ special ’ to someone — not from a desire to be loving and to be truly intimate . |
| 6 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 7 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 8 | Skills can not be transferred directly from a trainer to a trainee , the function of the trainer is to provide conditions and guidelines which will facilitate learning . |
| 9 | But the owners had to throw them out because they were faced with a huge increase in insurance premiums , up from a $1000 to almost $5000 . |
| 10 | When you purchase any Micro Series system , you will be able to upgrade the processor to any available processor in the Graphite Micro Series range , ( e.g. from a 286–12Mhz to a 286–20Mhz or even any of the superfast 386 and 486 processors ) , within 18 months of your original purchase for the price difference between the new and existing processor . |
| 11 | A change in kind will always be material , e.g. from a house to a shop , but a change in degree of existing use may be ‘ material ’ only if it is very marked . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ’ march during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ' match during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 15 | I recently came back from a trip to Egypt and despite the fact that I enjoyed the food there , I had an urge to make a really wholesome fish pie . |
| 16 | Late that afternoon she had a telephone call from Joe Martin , just back from a trip to New York . |
| 17 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 18 | It was purchased on 4 August 1928 by a Mrs Green of Sydney , Australia , going back from a visit to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 19 | Palestinian sources said Arafat , back from a visit to Morocco where he briefed King Hassan , was chairing a meeting of the central committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation 's mainstream Fatah movement . |
| 20 | Eighteen months later , the DTI inspectors have little to show for their work so far , apart from a bill to the taxpayer which Esquire estimates in excess of £1 million . |
| 21 | Literature , apart from a reference to the Liverpool poets , is excluded from his working-class pupils ' experience of English in school . |
| 22 | The route lies predominantly within agricultural land of good quality apart from a section to the south of the Edinburgh/Carstairs main railway line where it is flanked by residential developments . |
| 23 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 24 | My wife and I returned recently from a visit to our son in South Australia , and whilst there we paid several visits to the local RAFA branch . |