Example sentences of "to move from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In 1974 , Emerson decided to move from Lotus to McLaren , a move dictated by the kind of restlessness and self-interest which characterize most racing drivers and , more than possibly , by the fact that 1974 was the year in which the multi-million-dollar multinational , Phillip Morris , took over the sponsorship of the McLaren team . |
| 3 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 4 | The argument begins to move from economics to politics . |
| 5 | Love has to move from idea to reality , and that is always God 's way — the way of incarnation . |
| 6 | He postulated that at one time there had been an area of land in what is now the Atlantic Ocean allowing plants to move from Spain to Ireland . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 9 | This has been used to support proposals to move from income to expenditure taxation . |
| 10 | If we were to move from standstill to cutbacks , we would expect to see further changes in behaviour . |
| 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 | Mott , Hay & Anderson , the tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan 's refusal to move from London to Newcastle to be unreasonable . |
| 13 | And to move from B to Z movies , connoisseurs of the bizarre can now lay in their own copy of Edward Woods ’ Plan 9 From Outer Space ( Palace , £14.99 ) , once voted the most incompetent film of all time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You can use the up and down arrow keys to move from line to line . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 19 | The middle classes , especially those in government service , have to move from place to place and so need continuity of curriculum . |
| 20 | It is the number of operations needed to move from x to y if no tile got in the way of any other . |
| 21 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |