Example sentences of "[verb] shifted from [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Are employment figures alone sufficient to infer that the economy has shifted from a goods to a service economy , that the economy has moved from an industrial stage to a post-industrial stage .
2 As a consequence , sales pressure has shifted from the ironmongery towards the software , supplies and services that go with it .
3 In many cases , as illustrated by examples from a few industries , the issue of the advantages of scale has shifted from the level of the factory to the firm as a whole .
4 Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers .
5 Since the introduction of the banking code for personal customers in December 1991 , responsibility for disputed transactions on lost or stolen credit cards or cash cards has shifted from the customer to the bank .
6 But the domain has shifted from the world of molecules to a larger scale .
7 Firstly , the endorsement of penal as distinct from prison reform implied that the target for change had shifted from the prison to the criminal justice process as a whole .
8 Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature .
9 It is our intention to explore the hypothesis that public perceptions of marriage have shifted from an emphasis on its public/institutional to its private/relational aspects .
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