Example sentences of "shift of [noun sg] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was a much more important shift of power away from the examining boards ( and thus away from the universities ) in the creation of the central Secondary Examinations Council . |
| 2 | The establishment of the Senate does not yet appear to have resulted in any discernible shift of power away from the individual Inns ( Hazell , 1978 ; Benson Commission , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | A clear shift of power away from the hospital consultants was apparent . |
| 4 | There was an attempt to push the balance back in favour of the consumer , but privatisation has achieved the opposite because it has resulted in a major shift of power away from the consumer to the producer . |
| 5 | What this was to produce was a shift of power away from the House of Commons to the cabinet and to the electorate , with political parties serving as the conduit for this transfer . |
| 6 | In one sense , the shift of population away from the original urban cores is by no means a new development ; suburban expansion was already underway before the end of the nineteenth century and accelerated dramatically in the interwar period . |