Example sentences of "move from a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | MICHAEL BRIAL has moved from a likely Wallaby tour drop-out to a possible starter for Saturday 's game against Wales B in Cardiff . |
| 9 | By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives . |
| 10 | Gradually tenants will be moved from a particular tower block to their new homes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Manufacture will move from a 0.8-micron process to 0.5 micron and from a two-level metal to a three-level . |
| 15 | Manufacture will move from a 0.8-micron process to 0.5 micron and from a 2-level metal to a 3-level . |
| 16 | A zoom lens is the visual equivalent of a continuous gear shift in a car : merely by turning a handle , the operator can move from a long lens , giving a narrow view but a deep-focus telescopic shot of the subject , to a short , wide-angle lens , with a wide view . |
| 17 | From time to time various members of this population will move from a stable state to having a special status . |
| 18 | Mead says that over the next several years it will move from a mainframe-centric architecture to a more flexible Unix environment , and Hewlett products are being incorporated as components of Mead Data 's internally developed Lexis and Nexis legal , business , financial and medical databases . |
| 19 | In doing so the project will move from a generalized concept through progressive degrees of refinement and detail , removing uncertainty and increasing knowledge at each stage over the duration of the project . |
| 20 | Moving from a low cost to a high price housing area will be of concern : employees will wish to know how they can be helped to meet increased payments . |
| 21 | Garland ( 1985a , p. 129 ) has made a similar point : although both classical and positivist criminology incorporated a conception of the relationship between the individual and the state , he sees the positivist version as ‘ moving from a liberal mode to a more authoritarian , interventionist one ’ , at least in the case of the early , biological school . |
| 22 | By moving from a broad treatment of paraprofessionals on a global scale to detailed examination of the training and use of these workers in a number of specific countries , we have sought to capitalize on the complementary strengths of the ‘ macro ’ and ‘ micro ’ approaches to comparative social policy analysis ( Higgins , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | They maintain an optimum body temperature by alternatively moving from a hot spot to a cooler one and back again throughout the day . |
| 24 | This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile in terms of the following parameters : |
| 25 | For HP 9000 Unix workstations and business servers , system-oriented software is moving from a seven-tier model to a three-tier structure based on expandability , not processor power so that in both cases , customers can increase processing power without incurring software-upgrade fees — eat your heart out , IBM AS/400 users . |
| 26 | At the very extremes of this process , it means moving from a cursory skimming of a book in order to establish its relevance to your needs , and its scholarly stature , to a detailed appraisal of an historian 's interpretation of a particular point . |
| 27 | I also want to show how Moore 's genius consisted of moving from a small object , a pre-Columbian sculpture , a piece of rock or a sea shell , towards large-scale sculpture . ’ |
| 28 | A corporate or business plan is a scheme for moving from a present position to where an organization wishes to be to meet its objectives . |
| 29 | Student numbers are escalating in this sector too , and the country is moving from a selective system of further and higher education in the direction of mass expectation of such benefits . |
| 30 | First , they need a well proven advanced technology to minimise the risk of moving from a departmental system supporting up to maybe 100 users to hundreds if not thousands of users . |