Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to circumstances , other issues , from agricultural policy to international crime , may predominate . |
| 2 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 3 | He devotes one chapter of the book to each of these trends : 1 ) from an industrial society to an information society ; 2 ) from forced technology to high tech/high touch ( this typical jargon describes the increasing importance of human , social and spiritual responses to advanced technology ) ; 3 ) from national economic concerns to world economic concerns ; 4 ) from short-term thinking to long-term thinking and planning ; 5 ) from centralisation to decentralisation ; 6 ) from institutional help to self-help ; 7 ) from representative democracy to participatory democracy ; 8 ) from hierarchies to networking ; 9 ) from north to south ( within the United States ) ; and 10 ) from either-or to multiple options . |
| 4 | The low lands were patched with hayfields at every stage of readiness , from bleached yellow to ferny green , and across the coloured surfaces people moved as though they were stitching and knitting at its texture , arms pulling on rakes , backs stooped under burdens on their way to the steadings . |
| 5 | The traditional compost for gardeners made from sterilised top-soil to which grit , sand and fertilisers have been added . |
| 6 | By directing funds from low-interest source to higher-interest outlets , interest arbitrage , like money broking , should help to remove anomalous interest rate differentials . |
| 7 | It was a conversation with the manager in his office that completed Goram 's transformation from outstanding prospect to the reliable goalkeeper now being spoken of as without peer in Britain . |
| 8 | In both cases the soliloquy conveys important self-reflection , a move from light-hearted banter to serious self-revelation that is made with even more significance by Cressida , after the exit of Pandarus — the spirit of prose at its most banal ( Troilus and Cressida , I.ii.281 ) — and by Hal , after the exit of Falstaff ( 1 Henry IV , I.ii.195 ) . |
| 9 | The contents may vary from technical advice to general policy pronouncements . |
| 10 | At earlier times , the move from full-time work to full-time retirement , through a transitional process of gradual movement of individuals through lighter and part-time employment , typically coincided with the biological transition from fitness to dependency . |
| 11 | In recent times , however , most people have come to experience and to expect an abrupt transition from full-time work to full-time retirement at an age when many of them feel reasonably fit . |
| 12 | Such schemes were an attempt to accommodate the desire of many older people to continue in at least part-time work and to find new ways of continuing the older tradition of gradual transition from full-time work to full retirement . |
| 13 | The Swede 's cheque for £7,110 enabled him to jump 39 places in the Volvo Order of Merit from 157th place to 118th . |
| 14 | Quantum leaps from working class to the chair of a board of directors of a multinational corporation are rare , which is why they attract so much attention when they occur . |
| 15 | 1979 Conservative Government got into its stride that this tenet was raised from aspirational status to a specific directive that InterCity must operate as a self-financing business . |
| 16 | The company is then faced with the prospect of stepping from private ownership to public ownership to ensure future prosperity . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Spatial changes promoting a shift from private sociability to public sociability , or , if one likes , from ‘ particularized ’ to ‘ generalized ’ forms of sociability . |
| 18 | But the same process might equally well lead from private grievance to public fanaticism of the darkest kind . |
| 19 | Tailor-made to your personal specifications to enhance every environment — from private study to entire office suite . |
| 20 | An example was the switch from corner-shop retailing to supermarkets in the 1960s ; a current example of this kind of rapid structural change ( which can occur in relation to housing , transport , the organisation of industry and the structures of service provision — both public and private ) is obviously crucial to the development of more effective planning policies . |
| 21 | The annual report for 1862–3 , by the Secretary Phoebe Blyth , lists the following occupations as those in which it was trying to place women : Teachers … female missionaries and Bible women , sick nurses , book-keepers , colourists and printers of photographs , hairdressers , shop girls , waitresses , copyists , amanuenses , dressmakers , upholsterers , sewers … from finest embroidery to sewing machines , knitters and daily workers [ i.e. charwomen ] . |
| 22 | His work , image and public pronouncements still veer wildly from pacifism to violence , from obsessive love to profound hatred , from commendable sensitivity to unrestrained cruelty . |
| 23 | This steer , in brief , sets out 10 key areas of ‘ health gain ’ , ranging from emotional health to cancers , and determines how these should be addressed by ‘ people-centred ’ planning and effective use of resources . |
| 24 | He would like to transfer from administrative work to the sales staff of the aluminium company for which he worked . |
| 25 | Pressure delivery can be from 500 psi to 2000 psi or more 1000 psi is usually the limit for interior use . |
| 26 | Initial ‘ gut ’ reactions have varied from righteous indignation to cynical amusement , from vocal anger to silent embarrassment . |
| 27 | The Convention simply does not address the movement of persons or documents from that country to the forum State or a third State ; nor , of course , the extensive nature of such movement required to comply with some American discovery orders . |
| 28 | It was seven miles from that location to the nearest road where the crew vehicles were parked . |
| 29 | But , apart from that nod to twentieth-century technology , she tried an experiment of a different sort ; to see whether it would be possible to live here , as in some undefined time-gone-by-period , the life she was ruminating over . |
| 30 | try to redefine the way that the opposition sees its own position so as to enable it to shift away from that position to your benefit |