Example sentences of "transition [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because a conventional laser relies on transitions between quantum states of an atom or molecule , the wavelength emitted is determined by the energy difference between these states . |
| 2 | The effects on pupil achievement of poorly managed transitions between primary and secondary schools have been amply documented by Professor Galton and his associates at the University of Leicester . |
| 3 | The transitions between word ending states and word beginning states are then modified according to word boundary phonological rules . |
| 4 | Their pale flesh in that wreckage made her shiver ; it stirred morbid thoughts of the fragile membrane retaining blood inside the body , the tender transitions between limb and limb , the throbbing larval transparency of scientific diagrams showing the foetal development of … infant salmon , infant monkeys , infant anything . |
| 5 | The great transitions of life — birth , marriage and death — retained their power over the imagination , and the rituals around these are all that have kept many churches functioning . |
| 6 | In an attempt to clarify the conformational and energetic aspects of B I -B II transitions within DNA oligomers we have undertaken a systematic modelling study using the JUMNA program ( 11 ) which is specifically designed for modelling nucleic acids . |
| 7 | Gumperz ( 1977 ) , for example , has argued that such variables can be used to invoke domains of interpretation , e.g. to mark transitions from chat to business . |
| 8 | The extract from Clarke and Willis takes a different view , arguing for multiple transitions from youth to adulthood , and examining the place of schooling in that process , especially for working-class young people . |
| 9 | BI-BII transitions in B-DNA |
| 10 | So the relative position of bureaucracy and other political institutions may be seen historically as a consequence of transitions in capitalism and the state . |
| 11 | Similarly , the principal transitions in nature were also regarded as occurring suddenly and dramatically . |
| 12 | An alternative theory , still concerned with major transitions in relation to economic changes , is that which conceives the turning-point in social life as being the emergence and development of industrial society , in which the growth of modern science and technology plays a crucial role ( Aron , 1967 ) ; and a further extension of the theory , in more recent discussions of ‘ post-industrial ’ society , affirms even more strongly the overwhelming importance in the economy and society of the production of theoretical knowledge . |
| 13 | 6.8 Electronic energy levels and transitions in transition metal complexes |
| 14 | Electronic transitions in transition metal compounds , as in all other species , take place between occupied and empty orbitals . |
| 15 | This has introduced a qualitatively new circumstance that was not operating when today 's First World countries were making their transitions to industrialization and urbanization ( see Leopold , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Movements of particular interest will be studied in detail , for example transitions to self-employment and women 's returns to employment . |
| 17 | In my own case , the model of transition through liminality might still produce a recognizable replication of the move through a rite de passage : |
| 18 | Transition through training is shown to be a process in which vulnerable young people are stratified into the slots allotted to them rather than being engaged in real decision-making about future choices . |
| 19 | Within this framework , Charnov deals with sex ratios in dioecious species ( those having separate sexes ) , with the order and timing of sex change in sequential hermaphrodites , with the equilibrium allocation of resources for simultaneous hermaphrodites , with conditions favouring the transition between dioecy and hermaphroditism , and with the selective forces likely to alter the allocation to male versus female function ( such as local mate and local resource competition ) . |
| 20 | This means that for many of its black speakers as well as virtually all its white speakers , the London variety of Creole is something like a second language or dialect , learnt around the time of transition between childhood and adolescence . |
| 21 | This might thus serve to bridge the transition between prayer and other forms of activity and also embody a perpetual icon for that prayer and for penitence : The shorter version engages with the Passion story much more starkly to project a powerful realisation of the horror of being cut off from all that Christ is — in the words of The Form of Living " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 1.85.19 – 21 ) . |
| 22 | TECs are regarded both as regulators of the local training market in the transition between education , training and employment and as the channel through which employers can influence the vocational education and training system . |
| 23 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
| 24 | These periods of low-voltage sleep were called " emergent stage I " because subjects were not as easily roused as from " ordinary " sleep onset Stage I sleep , and because , being continuous with deeper stages of sleep , these periods of light sleep were obviously not a transition between wakefulness and sleep , in the way that sleep onset Stage I seemed to be . |
| 25 | Progression and continuity are particularly at risk during the period of transition between primary and secondary school , not least because poor continuity and progression in terms of the curriculum is often accompanied by even more severe discontinuities in teaching methods . |
| 26 | The ISS philosophy was that the transition between primary and secondary school should be as smooth as if there were no institutional break ; but the recommendations were too limited to ensure such a goal . |
| 27 | Surely that makes the transition between home and school a rather traumatic one ? |
| 28 | Surely that makes the transition between home and school a rather traumatic one ? |
| 29 | Men were sometimes on the beat twenty-one out of twenty-four hours during the transition between day and night duty . |
| 30 | A port replicator , which facilitates quick transition between mobile and desktop use for both ThinkPad 700 and new ThinkPad 720 users , was also introduced . |