Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a configuration would tend to make a plate slide under the force of gravity downwards from a mid-oceanic ridge towards a subduction zone ( Fig. 2.17(E) ) . |
| 2 | He was never allowed to hold the colobus , though , and sat eating his piece of meat apart from the others . |
| 3 | Alice 's room was tiny , with a single bed , one other piece of furniture apart from the wall cupboard , a small chair , and a narrow window that would not open . |
| 4 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 5 | It was possible , of course , that their man had taken his taxi to a part of London far from the place he was staying in . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The British attitude was that American troops should remain pending the completion of the UN task in supervising elections ; the change of policy away from the Moscow agreement , which Britain had so far supported , would be justified in the UN debate on the grounds that the assumptions on future developments at Moscow had proved erroneous and the only course of action now was to appoint a UN temporary commission . |
| 8 | UA was idealistically founded to act as a distribution agency to give independent producers freedom of expression away from the restraints of the major studios . |
| 9 | Steep routes , close to the road , sunshine , pleasant surroundings and generally good quality rock ; plus there 's a bit of adventure away from the crowds for those prepared to look for it . |
| 10 | As Haynes points out , the planning process reflected this in that it ‘ usually took the form of a series of isolated , departmental exercises which lacked any common framework of reference apart from the central control of financial input ’ ( Haynes , 1980 , p. 82 ) . |
| 11 | There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored . |
| 12 | If the lithosphere of the back-arc zone has a component of motion away from the volcanic arc relative to the underlying asthenosphere the arc may be split apart . |
| 13 | A few hours of relaxation away from the whirl of London for both of them , I suppose . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sinus or supraventriuclar rhythms spent a smaller proportion of time away from the baseline that the sinusoidal rhythms of VT or VF . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 18 | It was in this major area of economic policy that early on the civil administration exercised a high degree of autonomy even from the totalitarian party . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the USA and to a limited extent in Britain , the availability of subsidies for nursing home care has encouraged a transfer of patients away from the long-stay institutions , and thus the more advanced pace of rundown in those two countries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , in recent years the methodological changes outlined in Chapter I have not only reduced the relative amount of work in this field , but also transferred the focus of interest away from the fairly limited concept of land use towards not only the more abstract concept of landscape , but increasingly to behavioural studies of how we value land and landscapes . |
| 23 | In February 1985 , the Lord Chancellor ( Lord Hailsham ) set up a Review Body on Civil Justice consisting of a small team of officials mostly from the Lord Chancellor 's Department and an advisory committee . |
| 24 | What sort of people apart from the |
| 25 | Later still he said : ‘ Honestly , Jannie , nobody watches this sort of programme apart from the relatives of the performers . ’ |
| 26 | The move of bushi away from the land into the ‘ castle town ’ of each domain meant substantial concentrations of population . |
| 27 | Pull-shifting the bass control emphasises the mid-range , mellowing out the overall tone by automatically moving the centre point of control away from the higher frequencies . |
| 28 | Chicks , squatting on the ground in the open , are in constant danger of attack both from the ground and the air . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But there was a much more important shift of power away from the examining boards ( and thus away from the universities ) in the creation of the central Secondary Examinations Council . |