Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much more common now to use the facilities provided by a package such as micro-OCP to generate a particular concordance entry on the screen of a PC directly from the text-base whenever it is needed . |
| 2 | Their message had been that boats should stay at least a quarter of a mile away from the whales and that sonar should never be used . |
| 3 | Cos he lives about a quarter of a mile away from the school . |
| 4 | The Botallack mine , with its nineteenth-century engine houses spectacularly sited on the cliffs , mined tin from beneath the sea-bed , with galleries going a third of a mile out from the shore , and the Levant mine had men working 2,000 feet below sea level . |
| 5 | The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts . |
| 6 | This is all part of a trend away from the narrow specialization of the past and towards the offering of a wider and wider range of services . |
| 7 | When imaging a surface , researchers bring the fine tip of the STM down to about 1 millionth of a millimetre away from the sample . |
| 8 | A large eye-spot at the tail of a fish deflects the interest of a predator away from the more vulnerable head . |
| 9 | However , it is possible that such " cutting " was intentional , in order to create the effect of a movement away from the spectator ( who is seen to be receiving a privileged view ) . |
| 10 | The shift of emphasis towards a whole-school policy is sometimes described in terms of a move away from the deficit or medical model of special education towards a more environmental or ecological model . |
| 11 | It was the beginning of a move away from the belief that " faith is more important than competence " . |
| 12 | To that extent , the present emphasis on stress may be an encouraging sign of a shift away from the ‘ personal pathology ’ of disorder . |
| 13 | This change can best be described in terms of a shift away from the Interest Principle , as defined by Leech , towards the Irony Principle . |
| 14 | Some independent evidence is needed to establish the existence of an instinct apart from the behaviour itself if such circularity is to be avoided . |