Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The reorganisation of DTI away from sectors has proved to be successful . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the ultimate collapse of the last-minute French initiative [ see below ] , he made a statement at the request of the Security Council on Jan. 15 , saying : " As … the world stands poised between peace and war , I most sincerely appeal to President Saddam Hussein to turn the course of events away from catastrophe and toward a new era of justice and harmony … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He took the piece of paper away with him , the name filled in above the pre-signed certificate , and showed it to Barnett who was pleased and who believed that it was worth having . |
| 7 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 10 | The workmen were ordered to clear the fall of earth away and it was n't long before a human skeleton was discovered . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The move of bushi away from the land into the ‘ castle town ’ of each domain meant substantial concentrations of population . |
| 14 | A major reason for this has been the move by customers away from cash transactions to cheque and credit card transactions . |
| 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 | The shift in stance away from cultural exile towards critical engagement , for him marks a shift away from the élitism of the moderns towards postmodernism . |
| 17 | Perhaps we could first take the right to slipper away from the prefects . ’ |
| 18 | She turned and shooed the flock of children away . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Mr Lamont came under attack for spending the whole of August away from his desk . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Julia uses wit as a means of deflecting the topic of conversation away from serious issues by shifting the referent of a scholarly discussion to the more immediate social situation : |
| 23 | Selective gas use was abandoned , extra gas supplies committed to power stations and the policy of diversification away from gas dependence was slowed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Regretfully traditional inspection often shifts the focus of responsibility for the quality of performance away from the person carrying out the work . |
| 26 | Mike Gunnell finds a Scottish brewery that has bucked the trend to diesel away from petrol |
| 27 | Mr Smith rammed home the lunacy of gambling away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS trying to prop up the pound when the money could have done so much good at home . |
| 28 | He was sprawled in his chair , his long legs outstretched , his hand holding the plate of sandwiches away from his body . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He has , however introduced a significant shift in the burden of taxes away from business on to individuals . |