Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] away [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether a post-Higher year is spent in the sixth year or in gaining experience away from school is essentially an individual decision . |
| 2 | In the meantime , public relations impresario , Regis McKenna Inc , has been hired to distract attention away from ACE 's bevy of erstwhile operating systems and on to the Advanced RISC Computing hardware . |
| 3 | Aunt Tossie knew she had embarrassed him , but it drew attention away from Nicandra . |
| 4 | He promised diversification away from copper , stocks of which were fast diminishing , but which provided up to 90 per cent of Zambia 's foreign exchange . |
| 5 | In its Working Paper No. 22 , the Canadian Law Reform Commission stated that one of its objectives was to ‘ direct attention away from rape as a sexual offence and towards the right of every person to be free from physical assault . ’ |
| 6 | From this suggestion developed the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) which has to some extent moved discussion away from process to concentrate upon a measurable product . |
| 7 | We took the view that this was a misplaced use , both of the finances required as it would divert money away from community provision , but also that there were no success criteria guaranteed other than removal from community . |
| 8 | Many Asian countries attending the meeting expressed concern that the North American Free Trade Area ( NAFTA — see pp. 39045-46 ) , linking Canada , the USA and Mexico , might divert investment away from Asia . |
| 9 | There are few places in the world where you can feel welcome away from home , but Liverpool gave us that and more . |
| 10 | This might happen if you give money away to members of your family or if you buy expensive items in order to reduce your savings . |
| 11 | Some Georgian officials suspect that Alabama is deviously trying to steal development away from Atlanta by turning off the city 's tap . |
| 12 | I also like to make use of climbers like honeysuckle , clemetis and jasmine to draw attention away from walls and fences . ’ |
| 13 | In this case , her thought processes were negative , seeking before all else to draw suspicion away from Barney but lacking the vital scene-of-crime evidence which , if Harris 's attitude was anything to go by , pointed strongly at his guilt . |
| 14 | But it will shift attention away from state structures towards a consideration of the actual politics occurring in and around these local state institutions . |
| 15 | Despite a great deal of talk about the Foundation moving emphasis away from operating systems towards its Distributed Computing and Distributed Management Environments , DCE and DME , Reilly claimed that the number of OSF/1 binaries shipped this year — set at 100,000 — would be doubled next year . |
| 16 | At present , RTV is intended as a development tool allowing applications developers to capture their images digitally and model a DVI application on their magnetic hard disc which they then can run and verify before sending video away to Intel 's US laboratories for processing to full PLV quality . |
| 17 | We eventually made good our escape to Braemar , where we sat miserably in the pub , lamenting the fact that our dry clothes were a 200 mile bus and train journey away in Aviemore . |
| 18 | The implication here for policy-makers who would wish to promote movement away from transmission patterns of teaching is that there is a need to ease and improve those conditions that currently incline teachers towards survival more than mere coping , and towards the control-centred transmission-style pedagogies that follow from it . |
| 19 | Mr Fallon claimed Labour 's tax proposals would take money away from Darlington Memorial Hospital and schools . |
| 20 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 21 | Rocking buffetingly in the gimballed seat , Yeremi returned fire wildly to divert attention away from d'Arquebus . |
| 22 | Two things occurred to him : firstly , that they were extremely anxious to divert attention away from Mrs Langham , which was natural enough . |
| 23 | At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate . |
| 24 | ‘ Trying ti tek thoo away from thi own land , is 'e ? ’ |
| 25 | Gedge began spending time away from Leeds writing new material . |
| 26 | Arguments against this include : ‘ MIT want to keep power away from Princeton ’ , and ‘ putting — it elsewhere costs another 250 million and there will be protests anyway ’ . |
| 27 | In the panics over the declining birth-rate and the continuing high levels of infant mortality , medics campaigned around these new knowledges to shift emphasis away from environmentalism towards close scrutiny of the health of the mother . |
| 28 | The resulting diversions caused chaos in some areas , but took traffic away from others . |
| 29 | During the final , Lendl ordered the removal of a wandering cameraman who was distracting him : a novel instance of someone chasing television away from tennis faster than the BBC . |
| 30 | Stars from The Mikado and the Yeoman of the Guard , the 2 light operas the company are performing in Oxford this week , took time away from rehearsals to launch the new Royal Mail stamps which depict 5 Gilbert and Sullivan favourites . |