Example sentences of "one [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Microsoft offers its programs on three different operating systems — DOS , OS/2 and Apple Macintosh — only about one-fifth of the program need be tinkered with to shift from one computer to another . |
| 2 | A survey conducted in 1977 by the US federal government concluded that it costs as much to change from one computer to another as to buy the machine itself . |
| 3 | Much of the $50 million of software exports in 1980 consisted of what is called conversion work : the recoding of programs so that they can be transferred from one computer to another . |
| 4 | This is commonly done where information needs to be transferred from one computer to another as in banking or for the operation of a fax machine . |
| 5 | In none of these cases could it be said that if a person entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer to another . |
| 6 | There have been a number of attempts to define languages at the assembler level which would be portable from one computer to another ; the compatible computer ranges of the previous section are , of course , one such attempt . |
| 7 | The JOB command will differ from one computer to another , as will the next two commands which relate filenames to unit numbers . |
| 8 | Ideas spread quickly from one field to another . |
| 9 | Forage crops for consumption on the farm are not directly extractive ( the sale of milk and livestock is ) although they may transplant fertility from one field to another . |
| 10 | He struggled from one field to another , making for the safety of the hills . |
| 11 | Each ten-acre field in turn was grazed bare — 'till; you could whip a mouse across it' — and the cattle moved round from one field to another so that they were always eating fresh , springing grass . |
| 12 | When they moved from one field to another he leaned down to unlatch and open gates , and as the bay gelding went through the grey mare followed dutifully . |
| 13 | This expression clearly covers the situation where a seller insists that all ( or a considerable proportion of ) his buyers buy on the terms of his written contract , there being no variation in the terms from one buyer to another . |
| 14 | This would still seem to be so if most , though not all , the terms are standard — if , say , there are minor variations from one buyer to another ( e.g. as to the commodity or the quantity bought or the price to be paid ) . |
| 15 | And as the mood of British music snapped from one paradigm to another , from lush Baroque to angry garage , he 'd forced and battered Must n't Grumble into becoming one of the hottest New Wave or punk bands around . |
| 16 | I mean if you ask what happens when electrons drop down from one orbit to another inside the atom , the emit light , which is the thing we are familiar with , but erm physicists tend to think of this as particles which they call photons . |
| 17 | If desired , further measurement can be obtained from this ; for example , we can measure the dispersion of a frequency distribution of sentence length , and so determine how far complexity tends to vary from one sentence to another . |
| 18 | Does complexity vary strikingly from one sentence to another ? |
| 19 | Because the analyst is investigating the use of language in context by a speaker / writer , he is more concerned with the relationship between the speaker and the utterance , on the particular occasion of use , than with the potential relationship of one sentence to another , regardless of their use . |
| 20 | It 's a good idea to have some spare olives — note that the design varies slightly from one brand to another and that some olives can be fitted only one way round . |
| 21 | SPEND ANYTHING FROM ONE HOUR TO ALL DAY EXPLORING THE AMAZING WORLD OF GREEN LIVING AT THE CENTRE FOR ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY ALL KINDS OF FASCINATING EXHIBITS AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY BUILDINGS |
| 22 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 23 | In this perfect market , with no transport costs , it does not matter whether or not goods are transferred directly from one division to another . |
| 24 | Electroluminescent backlighting , lasting 10 hours between charges , gives a clear display even in total darkness , as I discovered on one dive to 36 metres . |
| 25 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |
| 26 | Uli Edel has forged a remarkably coherent whole , cross-cutting from one story to another while retaining a precise delineation of character , picking out threads of compassion and love from a bleak tapestry of pain . |
| 27 | Many young people have more than one admission to residential care and many moves between settings ( Millham et al. , |
| 28 | Transfer of messages from one user to another . |
| 29 | Scions provide the chosen fruit or flower , and may be used to change a fruit tree from one variety to another . |
| 30 | ( The dotted lines represent influences passing from one variety to another . ) |