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

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1 Parry moved from a terraced house to a 15th-Century mansion in Kent and bought a Bentley for £81,000 cash .
2 She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 .
3 We referred in Section 9.6.1 to the growing current account deficit of the USA , and Table 9.2 shows this clearly : it moved from a current account surplus of $6.9 billion in 1981 to a deficit of $ 154 billion in 1987 .
4 ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed .
5 Only Limavady changed from unionist to nationalist hands , and Magherafelt moved from no overall majority to nationalist control .
6 The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location .
7 Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one .
8 Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy .
9 Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley .
10 In eight years Britain has moved from a current account surplus of 2.5 per cent of GDP to a deficit of 4 per cent of GDP .
11 Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems .
12 The underlying trend of the balance of payments was extremely adverse ; although the average growth of total output was only just over 1 per cent ( slower than in any six-year period previous to Thatcher ) , the current account excluding oil moved from a small surplus in 1979 to a deficit of £5bn in 1985 .
13 MICHAEL BRIAL has moved from a likely Wallaby tour drop-out to a possible starter for Saturday 's game against Wales B in Cardiff .
14 By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives .
15 Gradually tenants will be moved from a particular tower block to their new homes .
16 Over the past few years , that area has rightly moved from a marginalized position in cultural theory to become a focus for discussions around language , female desire and popular narratives .
17 Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this :
18 We have already moved from a whole season to a single day and the next four lines are narrowed down even further from the universal sun to a fire which exists in a particular person , namely , the speaker .
19 I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’
20 Are employment figures alone sufficient to infer that the economy has shifted from a goods to a service economy , that the economy has moved from an industrial stage to a post-industrial stage .
21 She 'd been moved from the uninspiring cupboard allocated to her by Stephanie on her arrival .
22 East Smithfield , Nightingale Lane , Burr Street , St Catherine 's Way ; like London 's wall they hemmed in the huge dock area that had seen 11,000 people moved from the crowded houses and thieve 's kitchens , and vast amounts of earth shifted to create new hills and rises in Chelsea and Pimlico .
23 When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres .
24 There is , apparently , no question of BAe 's bizjets business being sold in total to another manufacturer , and regardless of the nationality of any partner , the company does not envisage manufacture of the BAe 800 and 1000 , or future models , being moved from the present production site at Chester .
25 Between 1950 and 1970 some six million people moved from the central provinces and the frontier region with Portugal to the four major areas of industrial development in Spain .
26 He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident .
27 In an internal reorganisation Jim Kennedy has moved from the National Certificate Unit to take charge of assessment of Advanced Courses .
28 Hosts Anne and Dave Bell have moved from the old pub in Stranton to the new Tap and Spile .
29 More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution .
30 I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them .
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