Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never allowed to hold the colobus , though , and sat eating his piece of meat apart from the others . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A few hours of relaxation away from the whirl of London for both of them , I suppose . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sinus or supraventriuclar rhythms spent a smaller proportion of time away from the baseline that the sinusoidal rhythms of VT or VF . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Later still he said : ‘ Honestly , Jannie , nobody watches this sort of programme apart from the relatives of the performers . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Chicks , squatting on the ground in the open , are in constant danger of attack both from the ground and the air . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The establishment of the Senate does not yet appear to have resulted in any discernible shift of power away from the individual Inns ( Hazell , 1978 ; Benson Commission , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | A clear shift of power away from the hospital consultants was apparent . |
| 26 | There was an attempt to push the balance back in favour of the consumer , but privatisation has achieved the opposite because it has resulted in a major shift of power away from the consumer to the producer . |
| 27 | What this was to produce was a shift of power away from the House of Commons to the cabinet and to the electorate , with political parties serving as the conduit for this transfer . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , it simultaneously increases the monopolist 's market , since possibilities of substitution away from the monopolized input are eliminated . |
| 30 | This is achieved by gently lowering the slide at an angle , into the water , when the surface tension will pull the discs of plastic away from the slide . |