Example sentences of "have moved [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A FIRM which moved from London to Liverpool and doubled turnover in each of the past three years has moved to a prestige waterfront office block .
2 has moved to a position as a professional assistant in a local-authority education department .
3 When Radio Compass has moved to a position where it is twice the original bearing , stop timing and note the interval .
4 In suffix notation we would write The derivation is as follows : are the velocities of two different particles , for the particle which was at x at time t has moved to a position
5 So , if you are intercepting your track at an angle of 30° , you will wait until your RC has moved to a point where it is displaced 30° from the RC 0° to 030° or 330° .
6 6 Track is intercepted when RC has moved to a point where it is displaced from 0° ( station ahead ) or 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees as the interception angle .
7 Beauty therapy has moved on a pace .
8 Quite imperceptibly , arrest has moved from a position at the end of the investigative process to a new niche right at the start .
9 The new product has moved from a novelty to a buying habit .
10 It was as if he 'd moved through a layer of reality and into something older , a prewar world of poor light and brown paint and damp walls .
11 Even his walk was changed : normally he 'd moved like a man with springs in his feet .
12 I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses .
13 A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant .
14 In deciding what procedures to use the project team had to take into account the fact that few of the schools associated with the study were likely to have moved towards a Cockcroft curriculum .
15 Here , they 've moved into a ventilation brick .
16 But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then .
17 Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step
18 Of the three action sample carers , two had moved towards a preference for home care : Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law , though appearing ambivalent , said she was happy for Mrs Cummings to remain at home now that the project , and the services it had generated , had made caring for her mother-in-law so much easier ; and Mrs Cowan 's son-in-law said : ‘ she likes her own home so she 's entitled to stay there ’ .
19 One his release he had moved to a flat in Hazeldene Drive .
20 Umpire Douglas Sang Hue , who interestingly had moved into a square-on position and thus was perfectly placed to adjudicate , gave the startled batsman run out .
21 Some months earlier he , my step-mother and I had moved into a bungalow at 1122 Henleaze Avenue .
22 We had travelled only forty-five miles and had moved into a culture completely different from that of Bangkok , Chiang Mai and Pattaya .
23 He had moved into a flat , in Bramerton Street , Chelsea , with another member of the BUF , John Angus Macnab , the editor of Fascist Quarterly until 1937 .
24 Neighbours said that Magee had moved into a terrace house in Silver Hill Road , Derby , with his wife , Fiona , and 12-month-old son , Seamus , early last year .
25 A Spaniard like Picasso , Gris had arrived in Paris in 1906 and had moved into a studio adjacent to Picasso 's in the Bateau Lavoir .
26 Finn had moved into a glass box and never noticed if she or Francie or Aunt Margaret scratched on the glass to attract his attention .
27 My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head .
28 By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression .
29 Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life .
30 Her husband , Joseph , had moved in a fortnight later .
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