Example sentences of "[adv] from [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were indications that the method of manufacture changed during the sixth century , perhaps from itinerant craftsmen to workshops , implying a degree of centralisation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And that is what lies ahead in Latin American media — especially in television , and especially from big rivals to the north . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is , of course , only a tendency , and the move away from local policemen to larger , centralised policing may reduce this effect . |
| 15 | The conversation passed effortlessly from mundane matters to philosophy , spirituality , politics , art . |
| 16 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 17 | Anthony 's regular enquiries of his colleagues around Italy had at last borne fruit and Annunziata 's son had been discovered in a Roman hospital recovering slowly from serious wounds to his head and spine . |
| 18 | The image used by Spitzer of the " philological circle " , the circle of understanding , is more appropriate Spitzer argued that the task of linguistic-literary explanation proceeded by the movement to and fro from linguistic details to the literary " centre " of a work or a writer 's art . |
| 19 | Turning now from procedural problems to those with more serious overtones : confidentiality/fraud . |
| 20 | As Lee Trevino might say , here you either hit the greens or hit the road , unless you have a Ballesteros-type short game to get out of jail , often from tight lies to elevated greens slick as a marble staircase . |
| 21 | To ease the burden of changing immediately from general rates to Community Charge the Government has implemented a scheme of transitional relief . |
| 22 | Not to mention tweezing , plucking and smearing on depilatories everywhere from big toes to kneecaps . |
| 23 | The principles of inference by which we are to move from basic to non-basic beliefs are fallible , in the sense that they take us sometimes from true beliefs to false ones . |
| 24 | Either it is an instance of a proof by reductio ad absurdum , in which we assume something true in order to prove it false ; or it is a way of exposing a paradox within the concept of knowledge , for the sceptic can surely insist that if a central concept such as that of knowledge can be used to take us validly from true premises to a false or impossible conclusion , something is wrong with the concept ; there is probably some internal tension which should be exposed rather than swept under the carpet . |
| 25 | The effect of this on the energy spectrum is contained in the second term of eqn ( 20.7 ) ; i.e. one expects the transfer of energy to be primarily from low wavenumbers to high . |
| 26 | The Southern Ocean was virtually unknown to man before the 16th century , apart from possible visits to the ice edge by wandering Polynesian mariners . |
| 27 | This stubborn but uncorrupt dictator ruled Portugal for 40 years , and never once went abroad , apart from rare visits to his chum Franco . |
| 28 | The public events of his time leave little mark ; and , apart from occasional visits to London and Oxford and an account of a holiday in Cornwall , which is one of the diary 's tours de force , his record hardly strays outside the very narrow circumferences of rural Radnorshire and rural Wiltshire . |
| 29 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |