Example sentences of "from [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sublimation is the change from solid to gas on heating and from gas to solid on cooling without passing through the liquid phase . |
| 32 | For H2O , moving from solid to liquid to gas is a simple thing . |
| 33 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be a disaster to adopt a policy that changed almost from hour to hour under Labour , with no constancy or purpose of any sort ? |
| 34 | He then went on to reject a submission that the third condition was only effective to except a Hong Kong profits taxpayer from liability to tax on the profits of an independent business carried on by him overseas . |
| 35 | In a simple conditioning procedure the value of V will grow from trial to trial as a result of CS-US pairings and in consequence the value of a will fall . |
| 36 | The succession from Bevan to Michael Foot ( Nye 's biographer and Neil 's patron ) to Kinnock may be seen as a progress from genius to talent to mediocrity . |
| 37 | His party is the only one in Europe to have switched from communism to nationalism via socialism and to have stayed in power . |
| 38 | This had been made possible by relaying the flat-bottomed Company rail from Cabin to Bispham in bullhead rail , fitted with check-rail for double-deckers . |
| 39 | A ‘ chambermaid ’ who looks about eighty goes from tent to tent with a wheelbarrow full of logs and lays all the fires in the dustbin-like metal stoves . |
| 40 | Lij Yasu 's father was the ruler of Wollo , Ras Mikael , who had been converted from Islam to Christianity during the reign of the Emperor John , and had later married Menelik 's elder daughter , Shoaragad . |
| 41 | Some range from hilltop to hilltop in the manner of Watkins 's ‘ fairy chain ’ image . |
| 42 | These marked lines ran from hilltop to hilltop like ‘ a fairy chain ’ . |
| 43 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 44 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 45 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 46 | Each field has a name and space for typing in the corresponding data , and the user progresses from field to field under program control . |
| 47 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 48 | That was Mandy , from pathos to pleasure in the blink of an eye . |
| 49 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 50 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |
| 51 | Lalage jumped out of the car and waited , hopping from foot to foot like a child longing to pee , while Dada and Aunt Tossie slowly disembarked . |
| 52 | I do not believe there is another contractor capable of going from Greenfield to completion in this way , across the range of services , and on this scale . |
| 53 | With this help , No. 1 Troop had fought their way from building to building up the landward side of the road and were attacking a house when Sergeant Culling was hit in the face and killed by a percussion grenade exploding on impact . |
| 54 | My speciality shifted from building to wading through the Bunyala swamps with wellies and a rucksack on my back . |
| 55 | There it was again , moving from grave to grave in the moonlight . |
| 56 | Among these also stood the men of Angus , deserted by Kineth , with Malpedar from Moray to work with their own leaders and the presence of the Moray men to stiffen them . |
| 57 | There is every reason to believe that nerve fibres can also transmit messages from cell to cell with different codes . |
| 58 | Waves are not confined to single cells but can travel from cell to cell through two separate mechanisms . |
| 59 | When the militarily defeated Czarist regime collapsed early in 1917 , Lenin returned from exile to push for an immediate socialist revolution against the weak parliamentary regime which succeeded it . |
| 60 | When tempted by didacticism , the writer should imagine a spruce sea-captain eyeing the storm ahead , bustling from instrument to instrument in a catherine wheel of gold braid , expelling crisp orders down the speaking tube . |