Example sentences of "of [noun sg] away [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frostbelt to Sunbelt shift of capital can thus be portrayed as the movement of money away from areas of intense class struggle to States where it was much lower , and potential profitability was consequently much greater . |
| 2 | I am out here alone , unprotected , only a thin piece of plastic-canvas away from lions , buffalo , leopards and hyena . |
| 3 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 4 | Further assurances were sought , following their meeting on Oct. 10 , by the mayors of Hamburg and Bremen ( states which held stakes in MBB ) and the Minister Presidents of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony ( as interested parties ) , who were concerned that the merger could lead to a transfer of work away from MBB factories in Hamburg and Bremen to those of Daimler-Benz in southern Germany . |
| 5 | What seems to me to need attention is … [ the ] movement of psychoanalysis away from content ( pre-Oedipal or otherwise ) to a concept of sexuality as caught up in the register of demand and desire . |
| 6 | These years saw a shift in both French and foreign perceptions of legitimacy away from Vichy and in favour of de Gaulle and Free France . |
| 7 | At the beginning of this chapter it was suggested that the main features by which we can characterise the wider category of positivist criminology ( and which also serve to distinguish it from classical criminology ) are determinism , differentiation , pathology and the diversion of attention away from crime ( and the criminal law ) to the criminal . |
| 8 | Both theories entail a shift of attention away from considerations of origin or cause to those of function or effect ; neither is as much interested in the ways in which language reflects reality , as in the ways in which it shapes our perception of things ; both attach central importance to the concepts of system and difference . |
| 9 | Selective gas use was abandoned , extra gas supplies committed to power stations and the policy of diversification away from gas dependence was slowed . |
| 10 | But most of the time the only reminders of the outside world were remote sounds which merely emphasized the quiet of the room itself — the murmur of traffic away in Fleet Street , a typewriter clicking somewhere , some girls giggling , milk bottles falling over , a boy whistling . |
| 11 | We 've had a steady flow of traffic away from Oxford City centre , indeed through Banbury and out from Aylesbury on the A41 , the A413 . |
| 12 | Simon 's shift of approach away from Chadwick 's grand sanitary plan was not only an administrative necessity in the face of political opposition , it was also an acknowledgment of this difficulty . |
| 13 | But the demands of modern approaches to the teaching of the subject , as well as the influence of research , have tended to move the writing of history away from narrative towards that of the study of themes . |
| 14 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 15 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 16 | The 1985 Single European Act shifted the balance of power away from governments towards the European Commission . |
| 17 | Because the maintain that you need to le , a certain amount of time away from work to be able to cope with the situation that you 're in , and you 're , you 're not going to be at your best at the time when they want you there . |
| 18 | ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’ |