Example sentences of "[verb] from a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 2 | So did one from Balfour , written from a sickbed in Carlton Gardens . |
| 3 | AFRICA 'S NEWSPAPERS — CIRCULATION RANGING FROM A THOUSAND TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even if filter pipework appears clear , it will always benefit from a pull-through with a soft flue-brush , the type with a flexible handle . |
| 6 | Spanish-speakers have grown from a third of Dade County 's people to just over a half . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Moving from a large to a single bed |
| 10 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 13 | A mock trial differs from a moot in that it is a mock jury-trial , with jury and witnesses , not an argument on law . |
| 14 | Despite this the Duma was reduced from a legislative to a consultative body and hedged by all manner of restrictions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 17 | This is especially so as the local plan makes no reference whatever to the proposal to effectively change from a washed-over to an inset status , while the greenbelt local plan refers to that change only by the one word , quote proposed unquote , in parentheses on page twenty five of the deposit copy . |
| 18 | ‘ I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown ’ , he declared , ‘ where no disturbance can be . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The projector projects , not onto a screen but onto another film of , usually , the same size as the projected film , eg 35mm , though there is some advantage in terms of reduced graininess in projecting from a larger to a smaller stock , such as 65mm or VistaVision to 35mm . |
| 22 | It is intended to make it easier for customers to migrate from a centralised to client-server system without major investment . |
| 23 | A ball which is not perfectly round will suffer from a 1 to 2% distance loss . |
| 24 | In other words , they swing from a Mediterranean to an Atlantic orientation . |
| 25 | It requires special gifts of insight and patience to move from a mono-cultural to a cross-cultural perspective . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Here Richards switches from a psychological to a cultural factor . |