Example sentences of "from [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressure to limit unplanned high-density urban sprawl was the more acute because , in the fifteen years before 1908 , 500,000 acres of land passed from agricultural to building use , mostly on the fringes of existing urban areas . |
| 2 | At a later stage the emphasis was switched from administrative to programme measurement ( which — as costs may be spread amongst numerous departmental sections as well as outside agencies such as local authorities or quangos — is usually much more difficult ) . |
| 3 | The intention was to change the tone of the activity from retrospective to forward-looking , thus emphasising its constructive nature and again reducing any threat ( especially to senior staff ) . |
| 4 | The main difference , in the heads ' eyes , seemed to be the change from historical to formula funding . |
| 5 | Most human religions , from tribal to world religions , have treated woman 's body , in its gender-specific sexual functions , as impure or polluted and thus to be distanced from sacred spaces and rites dominated by males . |
| 6 | There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally . |
| 7 | Many translations have been made from direct to jungle English as warnings to writers of reports . |
| 8 | Such developments could ‘ very soon overturn the economic arguments for large centralised education institutions ’ , education in this sense stretching , of course , from pre-school to adult . |
| 9 | The main misgivings relate to the perverse incentives fundholding was thought to create : not to refer patients ; to shift cases from elective to emergency care ; to select or deselect patients according to their cost liability . |
| 10 | The possibility of widespread internal and , indeed , export distribution by rail caused a major transformation in Hungarian agriculture from pastoral to cereal production . |
| 11 | It should provide a measure of structure and sequence in what is learned , though that measure may vary a good deal from subject to subject and even student to student . |
| 12 | as we walked , sunshine seeped through the canopy of branches , bathing the forest in clear pools of light , and women raking in the distance would be suddenly spotlit , their pine-needles turning from tawny to amber . |
| 13 | Every change of the weather , especially from warm to cold |
| 14 | Cough from the slightest breathing of cold air , like Phosphorus and Spongia , from going from warm to cold . |
| 15 | Move from simple to complex , just adding one more thing each time . |
| 16 | He applied it to er the evolution of the cosmos as a whole and indeed to society , and believed that there was an ine inevitable onward and upward tendency of evolution from simple to complex , from isolated to unified , from erm stupid to more intelligent and so on . |
| 17 | On the western seaboard of Lewis and Harris from Great Bernera to South Harris , there are extensive areas of very rocky land comprising dissected lowlands and hills with rock morphology ranging from crenellated to pavement . |
| 18 | There 's something about the way they 're built and their atmosphere that prevents places like Staithes and Whitby slipping overboard from picturesque to grotesque . |
| 19 | However , the evidence is not entirely conclusive , and in a period when lords were having difficulty in finding tenants to take up holdings , it may well be that the conversion from arable to grazing was forced on them . |
| 20 | reading from left to east — |
| 21 | Another future option will be ability to vary the ride in three stages from soft to firm . |
| 22 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 23 | Dissenting countries included Britain , which opposed on principle , because it does not agree with removing taxation from national to Community jurisdiction . |
| 24 | Mendes , moving from tight to loose-head , White , who scored two tries , Nicol , Guscott and Hendricks played throughout , as did the Frenchmen , Camberabero , Roumat and Cecillon . |
| 25 | In South Harris a complex of igneous rocks , ranging from basic to acid types , has been intruded into the metasediments there . |
| 26 | Tephra comprises all the solid fragmental matter ejected by all types of volcano , and covers all rock compositions from basic to acid . |
| 27 | A CLIMBER was saved from freezing to death by the light of his pencil torch . |
| 28 | Many situations predispose to spatial disorientation — The main ones are : a ) Any situation involving a reduction or change in the way essential cues are available to you , eg on transition from visual to instrument flight or attempting to fly visually when what you can see is inadequate as in poor light , haze or high altitude . |
| 29 | We need to reclaim , in the light of the shifts of disability-definition ( from medical to community care interventions , from institution to care in the community , from arts and disability to disability arts ) , the cultural meaning of impairment . |
| 30 | We are the ones miserably fiddling with our shell necklaces while we wait to turn from anaemic to lobster . |