Example sentences of "from a [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have noticed when copying an application from a floppy to your hard disk that lots of files are transferred , with all manner of extensions ( see Screen 1 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown ’ , he declared , ‘ where no disturbance can be . ’ |
| 3 | It was thought necessary to have such authoritarian power and to combine legislative and executive functions in one person to implement economic reforms — the shift from a planned to a market economy — as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | TTT , carefully nurtured in the early days of PNP — especially after our fourth report had provided both a label and a framework for its development — became less prominent as coordinators returned from a collaborative to a solo teaching role . |
| 5 | Its appearance symbolized the transition of the United States from a rural to an urban nation , a transition reflected in a wealth of literature featuring the railways as the system of transportation and in the development of an industrial aesthetic which found beauty in factories , chimneys , freightyards , and machinery . |
| 6 | In all but seven of 38 WFS countries located in three major developing regions and having the requisite statistics , the mortality of infants whose mothers had migrated from a rural to an urban place was higher than of those whose mothers continued to reside in rural areas of that country , while statistics for 26 out of 36 WFS developing countries suggest that movement of a woman from an urban to a rural place increases the health hazards and reduces the survival chances of infants . |
| 7 | Adjustment was difficult and the transition from a rural to an inner-city setting was hardest for women . |
| 8 | The grain of truth in the myth of the British administrator dispensing justice impervious to the affection of the natives is to be found in this period of the history of British India , of which James Fitzjames Stephen is perhaps the representative figure , when a maturing bureaucracy was moving away from a personal to an institutional sense of fairness . |
| 9 | The profound learning experience which occurred during the early 1980s has established a style of operation and a mutual receptivity to change which Pilkingtons believe will transform the company from a reactive to a proactive organization capable of dealing with market uncertainty . |
| 10 | It is intended to make it easier for customers to migrate from a centralised to client-server system without major investment . |
| 11 | Illustration 2 : Industrialisation , moral careers and the move from a peripheral to a central region |
| 12 | The president is taking the key decision as to whether to increase his forces in the Gulf and to switch from a defensive to an offensive posture . |
| 13 | So , users can migrate between terminal types , from a proprietary to an open environment or from a terminal to client-server environment as required . |
| 14 | Mark Tantum , a senior lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg that a bank robber who turned from a mechanical to an electronic chainsaw to open the cash-box deserved different treatment from the hacker who simply accessed computer systems . |
| 15 | TFIIF , possibly along with TFIIE , might be involved in a change of DNA conformation around the initiation site that is induced by binding of RNA polymerase II to the preformed DAB complex and represents a transition from a closed to an open complex ( 30 ) . |
| 16 | In experiments described above ( e.g. Figs. 24.8 and 24.10 ) , the onset of turbulence was specified clearly by the stage at which the spectrum changed from a discrete to a broadband structure . |
| 17 | During this century the time available for leisure ( defined as time spent not at work ) has increased significantly due to long annual holidays and a change from a six-day to a five-day working week . |
| 18 | As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping . |
| 19 | Despite this the Duma was reduced from a legislative to a consultative body and hedged by all manner of restrictions . |
| 20 | The reductions in status of the Duma from a legislative to a consultative body illustrates this . |
| 21 | It requires special gifts of insight and patience to move from a mono-cultural to a cross-cultural perspective . |
| 22 | Thirdly , formalin fixation changed the pattern from a perinuclear to a diffuse cytoplasmic speckled pattern with no nuclear staining . |
| 23 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 24 | Moving from a large to a single bed |
| 25 | The transition from a hostile to a pacific relationship between the houses of Plantagenet and Capet took place between 1224 and 1259 . |
| 26 | This is especially so as the local plan makes no reference whatever to the proposal to effectively change from a washed-over to an inset status , while the greenbelt local plan refers to that change only by the one word , quote proposed unquote , in parentheses on page twenty five of the deposit copy . |
| 27 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
| 28 | To put all this another way , Chicago represented for its sociologists an ideal case study area in which to test the grand theories of sociology ; the changing social relations resulting from a shift from a pre-industrial to an industrial society , the effects this had on the individual and what Goffman was later to call the ‘ moral careers ’ of people as they managed ( or indeed failed to manage ) with the circumstances and institutions in which they were caught up . |
| 29 | In other words , the Chicago School closely follows the classical sociological tradition in being centrally concerned with the transition from a pre-industrial to a post industrial society . |
| 30 | There are also dangers in suggesting that writers such as John Locke influenced attitudes , rather than merely reflecting changing attitudes , away from a punitive to a more liberal approach to children . |