Example sentences of "to move [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The less upward social mobility is possible , the more visible class boundaries become , and the harder it is for energetic , ambitious and talented people from non-elite backgrounds to move into positions of power and prestige through their own efforts . |
| 2 | The gold price therefore tends to move in parallel with bond yields , which also reflect expectations of inflation . |
| 3 | In real life , we move our heads , and foreground objects appear to move in front of background objects because of parallax . |
| 4 | It was in their interests to be " internationalist " and to move in search of work . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State for Transport , Malcolm Rifkind , has signalled a shift in government transport policy by declaring his intention to encourage freight traffic to move from road to rail , in part by ending British Rail 's monopoly on freight , to improve public transport in cities and to investigate " road pricing " to cut congestion . |
| 6 | The argument begins to move from economics to politics . |
| 7 | Love has to move from idea to reality , and that is always God 's way — the way of incarnation . |
| 8 | The most famous symbol of the tendency for the educated élite to move from radicalism towards liberalism was the publication of Vekhi , a thoroughgoing rejection of the revolutionary heritage by leading members of the intelligentsia . |
| 9 | Unlike most other economic activities , fishing took place at sea outside the territory of any member state and the fishing vessel was free to move from territory to territory at will . |
| 10 | This has been used to support proposals to move from income to expenditure taxation . |
| 11 | Partly it was normal Arab volatility , their ability to move from elation to depression , rage to calm , in the space of a few bewildering seconds . |
| 12 | There are also connotations , however , of freedom from fear , freedom from the boredom of having to deal with work for which the learner has no motivation , freedom to move from activity to activity as desired . |
| 13 | Developed by the Transitions Research Corporation of Connecticut ( owned by Joe Engelberger ) , these refrigerator-sized robots find their way around with the aid of computerised floor maps , and can even , with the help of radio transmitters , use lifts to move from floor to floor . |
| 14 | You can use the up and down arrow keys to move from line to line . |
| 15 | The non-dipole terms give a site dependence to the VGP paths ; they tend to move from east to west if the site is northeast or southwest of the point 0°N ; 90°E and from west to east if the site is northwest or southeast of it . |
| 16 | These allowed many former civil servants to enter business ( notably in Zambia ) and many of the established traders of west Africa ( most dramatically in Nigeria ) to move from commerce into production . |
| 17 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 18 | The middle classes , especially those in government service , have to move from place to place and so need continuity of curriculum . |
| 19 | At the beginning of each trial food is placed at the end of each arm and the rat left to move from arm to arm , in whatever sequence it chooses , in order to retrieve the food . |
| 20 | For a lord 's status was directly related to the size of following he could support , and the larger his entourage the more frequently he had to move from estate to estate to feed them . |
| 21 | The separate rooms , the doors of which open and close as part of the programme after they have given visitors the chance to move from room to room , begin with the sense of smell . |
| 22 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 23 | ‘ Our idea is not to change the nature of the force to move from peacekeeping to peacemaking , ’ said Jean-Bernard Merimee , the ambassador of France , whose forces have suffered the most casualties in the Balkans . |
| 24 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 25 | Sayer clearly wishes to move beyond explanation to transformation but the problems that realism poses for me derive from its confinement in practice to being simply a better system of explanation . |
| 26 | They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself . |
| 27 | She is looking for work and thinks she may be forced to move to London in search of a job . |
| 28 | This office was to move to Assam in preparation for developments planned for the Katha-Naba-Bhamo area . |
| 29 | CW intimated he wishes eventually to move to bar-coding of Library stock to facilitate loans , and the same technology will suffice for both Horticultural and Library purposes . |
| 30 | Three years after his birth , his father , who was a Jewish wool-merchant , decided to move to Vienna in order to see if he could improve his business there . |