Example sentences of "move from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Coupland reports ( 1984 : 60 ) : As percentages of the less-standard variants of each variable rise in the client 's speech ( as we move from occupation class I to V ) , so the percentages of these variants in Sue 's speech in conversation with these groups generally rise .
2 The working poor 's main problem is the poverty trap — the tax penalty that poor families face when they move from welfare to work .
3 What change will be made to the level of grant paid to those ports which move from trust status to the private sector ?
4 Now let us take a step in time and move from summer to autumn , the time when the lush weed is still present and the water still runs clear at not much more than summer level .
5 What happens when people move from research to industry and commerce ?
6 In every Shakespeare play where prose appears ( as it does in all but four : Henry VI , Parts 1 and 3 ; King John ; Richard II ) , characters constantly move from prose to verse , or from verse to prose , and back again .
7 And these things move from time to time as well of course
8 Commissioners normally have fixed-term posts at given salaries whilst civil servants move from post to post .
9 We go in and move from room to room .
10 The two of them move from room to room and stand there nodding in apparent admiration of Tod 's handiwork .
11 While working the FAXgrabber icon appears at the bottom of the screen and little bracket symbols move from side to side underneath it to tell you that it is operating .
12 The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) .
13 With the way jobs are going it 's harder to keep members as they move from job to job .
14 So we move from semantics to pragmatics , from virtual to actual meaning .
15 The greatest effect of social mobility might be expected to be in the middle of the range , perhaps when fathers move from manual to non-manual jobs , for example .
16 User interfaces are not just pretty screen representations : as their use is extended they will come to express the whole nature of the system data model , and will probably become highly specialized as the interfaces move from function-oriented to task-oriented forms .
17 At the scale of a single cell , molecules move from place to place by diffusion , although even at this scale larger objects like chromosomes and vacuoles are moved actively by the contraction of fibres called microtubules .
18 Anxiety is commonly intermingled with fear and takes the form of restlessness ; it is a mental anxiety and uneasiness that makes the patient toss and turn , get up and walk about , move from place to place , one position to another but they become so weak that eventually , in very serious diseases , he is prostrate even to having a deathly aspect .
19 Then we would have to go on the run , move from place to place , rely on the people to feed and shelter us .
20 Even where sediment is recorded , it is frequently in the form of sand waves that move from place to place and do not accumulate .
21 ‘ We move from place to place in shoals . ’
22 We move from house to house for a glass of sherry and a chat .
23 Desks in lines , streamed classes , sets of identical textbooks through which children move from term to term and from year to year all serve to confirm a particular belief .
24 These examples must be multicultural , if they are intended to show the universal nature of mathematics , and should also demonstrate how we move from reality to abstraction and back again .
25 I MOVE from game to game with increasing abruptness .
26 Families pulling handcarts loaded with possessions move from area to area seeking refuge from the fighting .
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