Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] from one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 3 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | people want more mobility to travel from one place to another . |
| 7 | Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill . |
| 8 | Every object in these paintings is separated from those surrounding it by layers of tactile , visible space which enable the spectator 's eye to reach from one part of the canvas to another , from one object to another , by a series of clearly defined pictorial passages . |
| 9 | Stoicism replaces sentimentality , pragmatism is preferred to romance , and the need to survive from one season to the next overrides everything . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Most scanning enthusiasts will programme their scanner to search from one frequency to another . |
| 13 | This failure of latent inhibition to transfer from one context to another is of some theoretical significance , being uniquely predicted by Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) theory ( see below , p. 81 ) , and it has subsequently been sought and found in a variety of other training procedures ( e.g. taste aversion , Hall and Channell ( 1986 ) ; conditioned suppression , Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , Lovibond , Preston , and Mackintosh ( 1984 ) , Swartzentruber and Bouton ( 1986 ) ) . |
| 14 | 1906 is probably best remembered for the great earthquake in San Francisco , which resulted in fire and general destruction of the city ; also the Simplon tunnel through the Alps was completed , allowing railway traffic to pass from one side of that range of mountains , to the other . |
| 15 | A right hand response to a left field presentation ( indirect or crossed reaction ) , however , would mean that the hemisphere initiating the manual response is not the hemisphere receiving the stimulus and therefore some finite interval of time is required for a nervous impulse to cross from one half of the brain to the other in order to generate a response . |
| 16 | The primary process has two characteristics , both arising from the motility of cathexis , or the capacity of an instinctual impulse to switch from one object to another in trying to achieve gratification . |
| 17 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the Order gives no freedom to change from one class to another ; whether such a change constitutes development depends on whether the change is ‘ material ’ . |
| 19 | Strata subcultures tend to be particularly distinctive when there is little opportunity to move from one stratum to another . |
| 20 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 21 | That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes . |
| 22 | The hypothesis suggests that if natural order is valid , then in order to move from one stage to the next highest stage the acquirer must understand input from this next highest stage , where understanding is concerned with meaning and the form of the message . |
| 23 | The king is absolute only in his power to pass from one slavery to another . |
| 24 | A waterproof khaki bag to hang from one shoulder , a long black leather rod-case to hang from the other , and an assortment of neatly dangling nets , stools and bait-boxes . |
| 25 | Assume that the time to move from one cylinder to the next is the same as the rotation time of the device , which applies for some disk devices . |