Example sentences of "from a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistical approach reduces the problem facing the syntax analyser from a logic-based task to one of pattern recognition . |
| 2 | Glass , like toffee , has no sharp melting point but changes gradually , as it is heated , from a brittle solid to a viscous liquid and during this process there is no important change of molecular structure . |
| 3 | It is quite obvious that each type of violence varies considerably in its degree : physical force can be anything from a mere push to a brutal beating which leaves the victim close to death , and a sexual assault may be anything from a brief touching to a gross form of sexual violation . |
| 4 | But should such an undertaking be implied from a mere invitation to the reader to seek advice ? |
| 5 | A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association . |
| 6 | If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed . |
| 7 | was now in a position to build up a large network of tramways centred on Croydon , which it was hoped would attract passengers and business from a wide area to Croydon . |
| 8 | In 1982 , Sunday opening for his mail catalogue surplus bargains was an instant success , with customers flocking from a wide area to his Saltburn premises . |
| 9 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 10 | If they want to say ‘ yes ? ’ or ‘ no ? ’ in a questioning manner they may say it with a rising tone — a movement from a lower pitch to a higher one . |
| 11 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 12 | In this context , therefore , the research is about the transfer of ideas and institutions from a metropolitan centre to colonial countries . |
| 13 | Pressing F9 evaluates what is on the entry line and this changes it from a changing value to one that is fixed . |
| 14 | The company commissioned its own EIA from a former consultant to Tara , Bob Dallas . |
| 15 | The grid size can easily be increased or decreased at any stage during the design process , thus allowing you to create anything from a tiny motif to a large electronic or intarsia design that would cover a complete garment piece . |
| 16 | The person 's circumstances may change rapidly , from owner occupier to homelessness ; from a good income to living on sickness benefit ; from young and active to housebound and disabled . |
| 17 | The tactical model leads from a political position to pseudo-research , where facts are ignored because they might tend to obscure argument . |
| 18 | The prince , who returns tomorrow from a week-long trip to the Far East which has been dogged by press reports about the state of his marriage , is said to be the one who will move out . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We must also ensure that the escalation of costs does not lead to elderly people having to move from a single-bedded room to shared accommodation , which would be a lowering of standards in their residential home — and it is their home . |
| 21 | In County Durham the Northern Rock noted that prices in seven out of ten house type categories , from a two-bedroom flat to a brand new four bedroom detached , have gone up . |
| 22 | It is in the switch from a applied politics to the area of principle that , Reekie agreed , the most substantial change for 7:84 had occurred . |
| 23 | There 's a Total Heating system with Central Control to suit every sort of home , from a one-bedroom flat to a four-bedroom family house . |
| 24 | They maintain an optimum body temperature by alternatively moving from a hot spot to a cooler one and back again throughout the day . |
| 25 | Thermal insulation aims to reduce heat transfer from a hot area to a cold one , that is , from the warm indoors of our homes to the colder outdoors . |
| 26 | Maman 's voice changed from a coaxing note to one of authority . |
| 27 | From a famous letter to Rohde we know of the powerful effect that the meeting had on him . |
| 28 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |
| 29 | FIFTY-FOUR parishioners from the Shrewsbury Cathedral Parish and diocese have returned from a memorable holiday/pilgrimage to Rome , Assisi and Palazzola . |
| 30 | Many of Charles 's ideas sprang from a memorable visit to Boston in September 1986 , when he had been invited to speak at the Harvard 350th Commemoration Ceremony . |