Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] away from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This motive led him after university away from the |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Of the 29 rifts identified in Africa , five have led to continental separation and a further three have been associated with the movement of Madagascar away from the African mainland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The immediate increase in those deposits will come from transfers from banks but the ultimate origin will be a diversion of funds away from the destinations to which they had been channelled by unit trust managements . |
| 7 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Surrounded by wooded gardens , the Hotel Antares is just a small flight of steps away from a private sandy beach . |
| 10 | And er take a couple of steps away from the corner you could n't see your a thing , so we were more or less stuck where we where . |
| 11 | Yes , er he took a couple of steps away from the bed , er then I told him to lower himself down onto his knees and then eventually lower himself down onto his chest , down onto his front . |
| 12 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 13 | Administrative complications and the high cost of running the course had resulted in a ‘ heavy swing of opinion away from the sandwich to the full-time course ’ . |
| 14 | There was a perceptible movement of opinion away from the National government in the two years before the outbreak of war . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Billie had been roughly bundled by a group of storm-troopers away from the burning car and into the Dresden Heide . |
| 18 | A few hours of relaxation away from the whirl of London for both of them , I suppose . |
| 19 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 20 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 21 | Unlike smaller birds which , though more numerous , go to cover to eat , this bird is ‘ fearless ’ and defends the tree against other frugivores and may thus , on two counts , be rather inefficient at promoting dispersal of seeds away from the mother tree . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | While it is conceivable that bribes can be used to secure the sale of a better and cheaper product , the more general effect is to shift the balance of business away from the most efficient producer and in favour of the most corrupt producer . |
| 24 | The problems of the switching of business away from the banks is known as disintermediation . |
| 25 | The move of bushi away from the land into the ‘ castle town ’ of each domain meant substantial concentrations of population . |
| 26 | However , it simultaneously increases the monopolist 's market , since possibilities of substitution away from the monopolized input are eliminated . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , the promotion of industrialisation by protectionist measures tended to encourage inefficiency , waste and a diversion of resources away from the competitive export market . |
| 28 | It is , in fact , a diversion of resources away from the priorities which existed at the end of 1988 which were to develop the management accounting skills of the NHS : particularly to promote the better use of resources through the RMI . |
| 29 | Our long-term aim is to shift the burden of taxation away from the things the country needs more of — income , savings and value added — and on to the things we want less of , such as pollution and resource depletion . |
| 30 | 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 . |