Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] away [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British attitude was that American troops should remain pending the completion of the UN task in supervising elections ; the change of policy away from the Moscow agreement , which Britain had so far supported , would be justified in the UN debate on the grounds that the assumptions on future developments at Moscow had proved erroneous and the only course of action now was to appoint a UN temporary commission . |
| 2 | UA was idealistically founded to act as a distribution agency to give independent producers freedom of expression away from the restraints of the major studios . |
| 3 | Steep routes , close to the road , sunshine , pleasant surroundings and generally good quality rock ; plus there 's a bit of adventure away from the crowds for those prepared to look for it . |
| 4 | If the lithosphere of the back-arc zone has a component of motion away from the volcanic arc relative to the underlying asthenosphere the arc may be split apart . |
| 5 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 6 | Sinus or supraventriuclar rhythms spent a smaller proportion of time away from the baseline that the sinusoidal rhythms of VT or VF . |
| 7 | With rapid and sustained economic growth more capital becomes available to finance investment in labour saving machinery , and higher labour rewards in the advanced sector of industry are thought to encourage the mobility of labour away from the small firm sector . |
| 8 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 9 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 10 | It is accepted that the corridor effect may well operate in the years immediately after 193 and the current rush of development is , of course , partly designed to offset the loss in employment caused by general economic decline and the likely transfer of business away from the Channel ports to the Tunnel . |
| 11 | In the USA and to a limited extent in Britain , the availability of subsidies for nursing home care has encouraged a transfer of patients away from the long-stay institutions , and thus the more advanced pace of rundown in those two countries . |
| 12 | The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out . |
| 13 | It should n't be difficult , there 's plenty of farms could do with a bit of help with men away at the war . |
| 14 | However , in recent years the methodological changes outlined in Chapter I have not only reduced the relative amount of work in this field , but also transferred the focus of interest away from the fairly limited concept of land use towards not only the more abstract concept of landscape , but increasingly to behavioural studies of how we value land and landscapes . |
| 15 | The move of bushi away from the land into the ‘ castle town ’ of each domain meant substantial concentrations of population . |
| 16 | Pull-shifting the bass control emphasises the mid-range , mellowing out the overall tone by automatically moving the centre point of control away from the higher frequencies . |
| 17 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | A clear shift of power away from the hospital consultants was apparent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Billie had been roughly bundled by a group of storm-troopers away from the burning car and into the Dresden Heide . |
| 25 | The title not only confirmed the centrality of the hippocampus to studies of animal learning , but was also symbolic of the conceptual shift amongst psychologists away from the crudities of behaviourism and simple associationism towards an understanding of animals , like humans , as cognitive organisms . |
| 26 | Various writers in the late 1950s and 1960s began to move understanding of the investment process in companies away from the strict neoclassical economic perspective . |
| 27 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 28 | With a general shift in influence away from the Town Hall and back to Whitehall , however , that may change . |
| 29 | The turn of the century brought an important change in attitudes towards women 's role as mothers : a strengthening ideology of motherhood , accompanied by changes in theories of sexual difference , resulted in a shift in emphasis away from the negative constraints imposed by female biology towards the importance of healthy and intelligent motherhood to an imperial nation . |
| 30 | Perhaps we could first take the right to slipper away from the prefects . ’ |