Example sentences of "[prep] or [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarraute 's aim is to stress that tropistic movements are interchangeable : movements of attraction and repulsion towards or away from other human beings , and the frequently clichéd and stereotyped language they employ , demand representation in a more flexible narrative structure . |
| 2 | You should try and keep your balance by moving the knees and hips towards or away from the sail , keeping the shoulders still . |
| 3 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 4 | He will also learn to clarify his ends ; originally he saw no further than immediate goals , the satisfaction of hunger and relief from nausea ; later he conceptualizes the nourishing of the body by food and the danger to health of over-eating , and it is towards or away from these that he finds himself spontaneously pulled . |
| 5 | The spontaneity even of the most transient whim or velleity never ceases to pull towards or away from awareness . |
| 6 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |
| 7 | She struck out forcefully towards Alexander , which seemed natural , since the boat at anchor was the only thing to swim towards or away from or around on the flat Mediterranean . |
| 8 | Fish being the image into focus in a similar way to a camera , by moving the lens towards or away from the retina . |
| 9 | Fish , squid and octopuses accommodate solely by moving the lens towards or away from the retina . |
| 10 | VOR holding on a DME fix towards or away from a VOR is flown as a normal VOR hold . |
| 11 | ‘ Towards or away from town ? ’ |
| 12 | In addition , the investigator will test around 500 officers on a specially devised psychological instrument to determine the influence towards or away from prosecuting of a range of factors which may apply when an officer deals with a ‘ typical ’ traffic offence such as stopping a motorist for exceeding a speed limit . |
| 13 | This implies that the return flow for velocity fluctuations towards or away from the centre of the wake occurs dominantly in the upstream and downstream directions and little in the transverse ( z and -z ) directions . |
| 14 | It follows that if we know the exact pitch of the siren , it is theoretically possible to work out how fast we are moving towards or away from it simply by listening to the apparent pitch and comparing it with the known " true " pitch . |
| 15 | They force us to choose between being a part of or apart from the world of our everyday living . |
| 16 | Respond by moving into or away from him , using the diagonals available to you . |
| 17 | Your stance is crucial to how you move into or away from the ball . |
| 18 | From time to time , the Bank of England requests banks to channel their lending into or away from certain areas . |
| 19 | In the next chapter we review a number of recent empirical studies of the introduction of new technology and associated changes in work organisation , and these substantiate our conclusion that there is no general trend , either toward or away from de-skilling . |
| 20 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 21 | If , over the years , you suspect that there has been a swing to or away from attending more than once a Sunday , you may want to take the trouble of further refining your data . |
| 22 | In addition , one is struck by the importance of such factors as : vocal quality — this is Billie Holiday and could not be anyone else ; phrasing — that is , the way she places accents , alters the rhythm , often by stretching out notes so that they sound behind the beat instead of on it , and joins notes together , for example smoothly or with attacked consonants ; and pitch inflection — the way she sometimes slides up to or away from notes , hits them slightly ‘ off-pitch ’ , and so on . |
| 23 | 8.4 The Department recognises that employees who are the victims of violence at work may suffer emotional and psychological reactions to the incident in addition to or apart from any physical injury . |
| 24 | Next in the expanding network is Lenin Strasse with assorted communist theoreticians and luminaries awarded a street closer to or further from the centre , depending on how high their star stood at the time . |
| 25 | It was hard to tell , at the moment , whether it would be moving at or away from him , but Sheikh , a patient and methodical child , looked ready to run after it and beat it to death on the boundary should this prove necessary . |