Example sentences of "is from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fundamental shift is from provider to enabler . |
| 2 | Partly , this may be due to the fact that outside the tropics atmospheric circulation is from west to east , due to Coriolis forces , the forces which result from the effect of the Earth 's rotation on moving bodies . ) |
| 3 | The fighting there is from building to building and at night , often hand-to-hand with knives . |
| 4 | The recommended way to tackle the Sisters is from south-east to north-west , starting near the site of the Battle of the Bridge of Shiel , a Jacobite defeat in the ill-fated rising of 1719 . |
| 5 | When the swing is from co-operation to conflict , the modification of one 's ends by reaction from another 's viewpoint will tend towards hate , revenge or cruelty rather than love , gratitude or pity ; by an effort to see from his viewpoint one can resist the tendency , but at the extreme point of escalation one 's ends narrow to the survival of self or kin , and the other and his destruction are reduced to means to it . |
| 6 | Although most processing of arithmetic fields is from right to left , the operand is specified by the address of its left-hand byte ; since the instruction specifies the length of each packed decimal operand , the address of the right-hand byte is easily obtained . |
| 7 | Indeed , in the training industry the acronym CBT meaning ‘ computer based training ’ is from time to time reinterpreted to mean ‘ computer based trouble ’ . |
| 8 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 9 | In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away . |
| 10 | As in Jacob 's dream of old the movement is from earth to heaven . |
| 11 | The planned journey is from Gransden to Crowfield , a distance of 48 nautical miles to be completed in a straight line track of 095° in a single seat Jodel D9 Bébé . |
| 12 | Finally , HCO 3 - secretion may result not from direct activation of acid-base transport systems but from movement of weak acids in their protonated form in the opposite direction , that is from lumen to cell . |
| 13 | As in the case of parent-child relationships we find here that one-way flows of support can not only be tolerated , but also in a sense are expected , provided the direction of the support is from grandparent to grandchild . |