Example sentences of "from a [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was not a pleasant thought and Erika firmly pushed it away , thinking of movement from a lower to a higher stage of development , as Marx taught , and such as was taking place now , she and her mother sitting together , no longer like mother and daughter , teacher and child , but more like sisters . |
| 2 | AFRICA 'S NEWSPAPERS — CIRCULATION RANGING FROM A THOUSAND TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown ’ , he declared , ‘ where no disturbance can be . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Adjustment was difficult and the transition from a rural to an inner-city setting was hardest for women . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is intended to make it easier for customers to migrate from a centralised to client-server system without major investment . |
| 13 | Heat can not flow spontaneously from a colder to a warmer body . |
| 14 | Illustration 2 : Industrialisation , moral careers and the move from a peripheral to a central region |
| 15 | I increased the size of the outlet on this filter from a 1.5 to a 2″ pipe , the intention being to continue to use it , but make a connection from this into the 4′ filter I would build . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So , users can migrate between terminal types , from a proprietary to an open environment or from a terminal to client-server environment as required . |
| 18 | Since the first of September till the twenty-sixth of September , we 've had thirteen bikes go all over Banbury , and since the twenty-sixth of September it seems to have increased and we 've had eight of various sorts go , er ranging from a hundred to a hundred and ninety pounds . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | This intuitive account would require , in an analogue of consciousness for which program-level reduction could provide a necessary condition , but no more , that there be access from a higher to a lower level of programming language in certain , yet to be specified , circumstances . |
| 22 | MORTALITY TRANSITION — The continuous decrease of mortality from a higher to a lower level , a component of demographic transition . |
| 23 | The key feature of all models of hysteresis is obviously present in the insider-outsider model : it is only during the process of adjustment from a higher to a lower level of employment that there will be significant downward pressure on the rate of increase of money wages and prices . |
| 24 | From the point of view of stress , the most important fact about the way we pronounce this word is that on the second syllable the pitch of the voice does not remain level , but usually falls from a higher to a lower pitch . |
| 25 | Moving tones are more common ; if English speakers want to say ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ in a definite , final manner they will probably use a falling tone — one which descends from a higher to a lower pitch . |
| 26 | Mr Collin said : ‘ The Government says the cost of administration will drop from a million to £400,000 , that is one reason why their Council Tax estimates are misleading . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Moving from a four to a six of the same capacity means smoother running , as individual cylinder explosions are less powerful and a six is inherently better balanced . |
| 30 | This will certainly work transferring from a four to five millimetre machine to a nine millimetre machine , but some chunkies are not nine millimetres , so you will have to check your make of machine . |