Example sentences of "moving from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But accompanying this reform , which was aimed at lessening the disincentive effect of moving from benefit to work , are provisos like the requirement that recipients of housing benefit will be expected to meet 20 per cent of their rates bill which are cuts in welfare payments . |
| 2 | Howard walks with them , his eyes moving from person to person , from object to object , trying to take everything in . |
| 3 | Hundreds — mostly men , mostly young and mostly in militia uniform — mill around in small groups , in silence , moving from grave to grave . |
| 4 | There it was again , moving from grave to grave in the moonlight . |
| 5 | ‘ Our guiding element could be the Durutti 's Brigade moving from village to village , liquidating the bourgeois elements and leaving the workers to see to their own organization . ’ |
| 6 | The guard at the entrance can watch who is moving from floor to floor . ’ |
| 7 | Martin Knapp ( 1993 ) has summarized the dimensions along which reform is concurrently progressing as moving from supply-led to needs-led services ; from an emphasis on institutions to a reduced emphasis on institutions ; from a public welfare model to a mixed economy ; and a movement from health service to local authority provision . |
| 8 | While this conversation proceeded , both men eyed Martha , who was Harry 's first cousin , and who was moving from customer to customer , topping up tankards from an earthenware jug . |
| 9 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 10 | Cornwall tells him , ‘ the revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding ’ ( III.vii.6ff. ) ) , he comes into the final stage of his career , moving from subject to object , first of Goneril 's love , then of Regan 's . |
| 11 | It was always in motion , in waves and pulses , moving from west to east in the atmosphere . |
| 12 | The idea of groining a beach is that along the Sussex coast the beach material is moving from west to east , this is because the prevailing winds drive the gravel erm onto the beach from the southwest , and it moves in that direction all the time . |
| 13 | Such transformational changes include moving from low-technology to high-technology manufacturing systems , implementing computers and telecommunications , and redesigning the customer interface ( for example , by providing salespeople with lap computers so that they can interact directly with both customers and suppliers ) . |
| 14 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 15 | It would have been inconsiderate , and the possibility was not discussed , although Groa , moving from hall to hall with her husband , took the chance to pack a few extra boxes with thick clothes and blankets , and spent a little time during her last call at Orphir studying the crucifix Bishop Jon had pinned over her bed and wondering whether or not it would be Christian to pray for a wind . |
| 16 | Inability to shift status when moving from workplace to home can also cause difficulties . |
| 17 | For H2O , moving from solid to liquid to gas is a simple thing . |
| 18 | One sign of approaching winter comes from the parties of siskins feeding on catkins of birch seeds , moving from tree to tree in noisy flocks . |
| 19 | There were two mechanisms available — the ancient , rather hazardous and capricious method that distributed spores , the wind ; and the newly arrived messenger service , the flying insects , which were now regularly moving from tree to tree , feeding on the leaves and the spores . |
| 20 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 21 | The general thrust can be seen intuitively by supposing that inference is basically a matter of moving from premises to conclusion along an acceptable path . |
| 22 | Its entrepreneurs ranged the globe and with them went the cadre of ( mostly British and Irish ) foremen , skilled workers and elite labour ; sometimes settling down in some foreign country for good , their children becoming the Anglo-Argentines of the next generation , sometimes moving from country to country like the much less numerous oilmen of our days . |
| 23 | Padding is moving from shoulders to chest — yes , bosoms are back ! |
| 24 | The brain 's problem is to convert this ambiguous information about the movement of edges through the visual field into an unambiguous representation of the movement of an object , in this case a diamond moving from left to right . |
| 25 | A diamond moving from left to right , but viewed through one of the two small apertures , will appear to move either to the lower right or the upper left . |
| 26 | Moving from left to right this establishes the proportion of each student registered on a field which is likely to contribute to each subject area 's FTE in each stage ( b , c ) , sets this against current FTEs ( agreed in the 1 November census — after some major ‘ servicing ’ arrangements are allowed for ; for example a high proportion of Stage I accounting is taught by staff from the catering fields ) ( a ) , and adds the likely effect of recruitment targets and combinations for September 1988 ( ij ) , to produce an FTE prediction for the next year ( m ) . |
| 27 | If you think about the problems that there are with mathematics , whereby it 's not just a question of scanning print from left to right , but that you were involved in processes where sometimes you 're moving from left to right and sometimes from right to left , sometimes vertically . |
| 28 | It considered the offer of an increased wage together with the practice in the construction industry of employees moving from site to site were important factors in the case . |
| 29 | The main problem was that the missile launchers were often mobile , moving from site to site . |
| 30 | The provision made for those moving from region to region is limited and most have to rejoin the waiting list . |