Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She pushed the sketches of Kenilworth away from her with an abrupt movement . |
| 4 | A few hours of relaxation away from the whirl of London for both of them , I suppose . |
| 5 | I often used to wonder whether we should carry these new springs of happiness away with us when we emerged . |
| 6 | Some butterflies and moths have evolved false heads at the rear ends of their bodies , deflecting the attacks of birds away from their vital organs . |
| 7 | However , it simultaneously increases the monopolist 's market , since possibilities of substitution away from the monopolized input are eliminated . |
| 8 | Her slim , nude body , warm in the candlelight , warm by the fire , turning and turning , now this way , now that , against him … the curve of her back … the firmness of her hips … her soft breasts … the grace of her neck and the beauty of her , and of her face , and the dark , desperate eyes , begging now , and entranced — these were the images of her he had only half captured in his years of days away from this house . |
| 9 | The seats inside face away from the path and I thought it would be safer like that . |
| 10 | I could n't permit someone of your abilities to moulder away in a backwater . |
| 11 | In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Alright , although the farmers are benefiting alright , from protectionism alright , you know , we 're , we as tax payers and consumers , are diverting er , resources into agriculture away from somewhere else . |
| 15 | Variations in PH away from this are typically controlled by the equilibrium we 've already seen between the hydrogen bicarbonate ion and carbonate and H plus . |
| 16 | In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown . |
| 17 | The official justification is that in Bali the company could work with local performers and learn to ‘ shift our centres of gravity away from the head , down into the centres of our bodies ’ . |
| 18 | It 's not generally known , but they 've got at least 60,000 tons of grain away like that , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The febrile atmosphere of pre-disaster London had already wrought a gear-change in the night scene , the numbers of men away at training barracks having produced a seemingly equal and opposite number of women on the spree . |
| 20 | The TO was only about three strides and two sheets of glass away from her , but the talkback gave his voice the quality of a long distance call . |
| 21 | THE good councillors of Darlington , bent on keeping the wages of sin away from the eyes of their townsfolk , may ponder the growing demands of the homosexual community to have more representation in the ranks of the police . |
| 22 | The Sergeant was driving , and the windscreen wipers were waving crescents of slush away from the glass as they headed on into the teeth of the storm . |
| 23 | The emotional overtones of movement away from the subject are entirely dependent upon the manner of the retreat . |