Example sentences of "transition from [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffroy had popularized a new concept of evolution by ‘ saltations ’ or sudden transitions from one structure to another . |
| 2 | Within the part , a functional analysis may take us further than at higher levels , for smaller units of discourse are more likely to be uni-functional , and transitions from one function to another may correspond to both overtly marked sections of the discourse like section , chapter , and paragraph , and also ( indeed particularly ) to sentences . |
| 3 | Or you may be making transitions from one point to another that do not follow in logical sequence , not building on what you already know . |
| 4 | We follow his transition from international sprinter to club coach and then to the mastermind of an élite group of world-class sprinters — Angella Taylor-Issajenko , Tony Sharpe , Mark McCoy and Desai Williams were all medal-winners with Ben Johnson in the Commonwealth Games of 1982 . |
| 5 | As the country seeks to manage the transition from Communist state to parliamentary democracy , complaints are growing that the ‘ proletarian dictatorship ’ is being replaced by the ‘ neo-monetarist dictatorship ’ . |
| 6 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 7 | The transition from nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonism to racial fascism was completed by Arnold Leese . |
| 8 | Talk then centres on the aforementioned ‘ KERRUNCH ’ sound , which shockingly signals ‘ Creep ’ 's transition from weary verse to furious chorus . |
| 9 | From a non-evolutionist standpoint , however , the problems that can be posed concerning the state , within a Marxist conception , are limited to the following : the formation of the state as a consequence of a structural transformation of primitive communal societies ( so far as these can be properly located and studied ) ; the types of state which correspond with determinate , historically realized , modes of production , and the conditions which produce a transition from one type to another ; and in the case of capitalist society , the structural characteristics , including the contradictions , which may effect a transition to another ( unknown ) type of society . |
| 10 | After all , er , the idea of death being the end of everything , is n't particularly gratifying to people , but er , the idea of an afterlife is , is very much more appealing , because it means death is n't the end , it 's just a kind of transition from one state to another , and it 's nice to think that er , there could be an afterlife , particularly if you can look forward to it , erm , in a , in a better place than here . |
| 11 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 12 | Rates of progress are erratic : the transition from one idea to another may be accomplished by one pupil in a matter of minutes , whilst another will take months apparently covering the same ground . |
| 13 | A general point to be kept in mind throughout this chapter is that any tax reform involves the costs of transition from one scheme to another . |
| 14 | Does the script allow a smooth transition from one scene to another without a recording break ? |
| 15 | On making the transition from one prototype to another a di-gram weight corresponding to the appropriate letter pair was used in the optimisation metric , to influence the path chosen . |
| 16 | While Escada 's founder , Wolfgang Ley is proud to boast of the seamless transition from one designer to the next , the fashion world might have preferred to see Mr Stolzenburg challenge some preconceptions of this label by offering something fresh and new . |
| 17 | President said , ‘ Progress is generally a slow transition from one stage to another but the process can be hastened or retarded by the action of individuals . |
| 18 | Today , over fifty years after the beginning of the testing but successful reign of King George VI , the Abdication looks merely an unusual transition from one sovereign to another . |
| 19 | Finally , on 17th August 1801 , Commander Dundas was appointed acting captain of the newly commissioned San Antonio , having completed the transition from junior lieutenant to post-captain in just over one year . |
| 20 | At Hinde House this team of teachers was selected by the staff and centred its attention on the transition from middle schools to the secondary sector and the curriculum which should be provided in the Y8 group . |
| 21 | This research illuminated the contradictions of a transition from passive schooling to day centre provision . |
| 22 | The abrupt transition from 1963 London to the Paleolithic era would emphasise the Doctor 's time-travelling capabilities , while the sub-plot of making fire , crucial to the narrative , would bring home to the audience the key to the human race 's survival made by its ‘ discovery ’ . |
| 23 | Earlier , Beall & Fischer ( 1969 ) had observed that the transition from mechanical compaction to solution compaction occurs at around 250 m sediment depth in some North Atlantic DSDP sites . |
| 24 | The combined effects of these recent developments should sound the death knell for HDMAC , as the transition from existing PAL to future digital HDTV is now feasible without the proposed HDMAC phase . |
| 25 | In recent times , however , most people have come to experience and to expect an abrupt transition from full-time work to full-time retirement at an age when many of them feel reasonably fit . |
| 26 | Such schemes were an attempt to accommodate the desire of many older people to continue in at least part-time work and to find new ways of continuing the older tradition of gradual transition from full-time work to full retirement . |
| 27 | A happy country , extremely little crime , no graffiti , a great sense of security and the chance to see a society that is making the transition from traditional ways to the new . |
| 28 | SIR DAVID Frost 's transition from anti-establishment figure to pillar of the broadcasting hierarchy is charted in a three-part series starting tonight . |
| 29 | But the transition from French rule to Lebanese self-determination had not been an easy one . |
| 30 | The government has warned that unless the violence is halted , the transition from white rule to democracy might be delayed . |