Example sentences of "move [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working poor 's main problem is the poverty trap — the tax penalty that poor families face when they move from welfare to work . |
| 2 | Now let us take a step in time and move from summer to autumn , the time when the lush weed is still present and the water still runs clear at not much more than summer level . |
| 3 | What happens when people move from research to industry and commerce ? |
| 4 | In every Shakespeare play where prose appears ( as it does in all but four : Henry VI , Parts 1 and 3 ; King John ; Richard II ) , characters constantly move from prose to verse , or from verse to prose , and back again . |
| 5 | And these things move from time to time as well of course |
| 6 | Commissioners normally have fixed-term posts at given salaries whilst civil servants move from post to post . |
| 7 | We go in and move from room to room . |
| 8 | The two of them move from room to room and stand there nodding in apparent admiration of Tod 's handiwork . |
| 9 | While working the FAXgrabber icon appears at the bottom of the screen and little bracket symbols move from side to side underneath it to tell you that it is operating . |
| 10 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 11 | With the way jobs are going it 's harder to keep members as they move from job to job . |
| 12 | So we move from semantics to pragmatics , from virtual to actual meaning . |
| 13 | User interfaces are not just pretty screen representations : as their use is extended they will come to express the whole nature of the system data model , and will probably become highly specialized as the interfaces move from function-oriented to task-oriented forms . |
| 14 | At the scale of a single cell , molecules move from place to place by diffusion , although even at this scale larger objects like chromosomes and vacuoles are moved actively by the contraction of fibres called microtubules . |
| 15 | Anxiety is commonly intermingled with fear and takes the form of restlessness ; it is a mental anxiety and uneasiness that makes the patient toss and turn , get up and walk about , move from place to place , one position to another but they become so weak that eventually , in very serious diseases , he is prostrate even to having a deathly aspect . |
| 16 | Then we would have to go on the run , move from place to place , rely on the people to feed and shelter us . |
| 17 | Even where sediment is recorded , it is frequently in the form of sand waves that move from place to place and do not accumulate . |
| 18 | ‘ We move from place to place in shoals . ’ |
| 19 | We move from house to house for a glass of sherry and a chat . |
| 20 | Desks in lines , streamed classes , sets of identical textbooks through which children move from term to term and from year to year all serve to confirm a particular belief . |
| 21 | These examples must be multicultural , if they are intended to show the universal nature of mathematics , and should also demonstrate how we move from reality to abstraction and back again . |
| 22 | I MOVE from game to game with increasing abruptness . |
| 23 | Families pulling handcarts loaded with possessions move from area to area seeking refuge from the fighting . |