Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 2 | Cut strips of peel away from the top downwards with a very sharp knife so that the orange is completely free from the white membranes of the peel . |
| 3 | A few hours of relaxation away from the whirl of London for both of them , I suppose . |
| 4 | However , it simultaneously increases the monopolist 's market , since possibilities of substitution away from the monopolized input are eliminated . |
| 5 | The seats inside face away from the path and I thought it would be safer like that . |
| 6 | This is achieved by gently lowering the slide at an angle , into the water , when the surface tension will pull the discs of plastic away from the slide . |
| 7 | In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown . |
| 8 | The official justification is that in Bali the company could work with local performers and learn to ‘ shift our centres of gravity away from the head , down into the centres of our bodies ’ . |
| 9 | THE good councillors of Darlington , bent on keeping the wages of sin away from the eyes of their townsfolk , may ponder the growing demands of the homosexual community to have more representation in the ranks of the police . |
| 10 | The Sergeant was driving , and the windscreen wipers were waving crescents of slush away from the glass as they headed on into the teeth of the storm . |
| 11 | The emotional overtones of movement away from the subject are entirely dependent upon the manner of the retreat . |