Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the fashion for hair has moved away from the hard , artificial post-punk era towards more natural styles , the emphasis has been on hair care products that promote softness and shine . |
| 2 | Senghor has retired entirely from Senegalese national and party politics and lives partly in France , although disagreements between himself and Diop have subsequently been recorded . |
| 3 | ‘ The cannabis field has moved away from the drug abuse side of things . |
| 4 | The University has recovered well from the shock of a ‘ trading loss ’ in 1989–90 . |
| 5 | Apart from the Head Chef , who is 53 , opposition has come mainly from the Accommodation Manager , who is unqualified but very experienced : he believes that the old ways are the best ways and has generally received the support of his department heads , who owe their positions to him . |
| 6 | However , suffering from badly-burned fingers , the venture capital industry has moved away from the riskier entrepreneurial start-ups to investing more in developing companies and MBOs . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , like much jargon , the term has arisen partly from people who needed a term to express what they were actually doing and partly from suppliers seeking a new vehicle to act as a stimulant for their products . |
| 8 | Modern practice has moved away from official reference to two experts and an umpire so described , but the procedures are often quite similar in practice . |
| 9 | Why did you attack them ? ) ; but as she opened her eyes again her whole mind seemed drawn away from such matters , towards the warrior who stood before her . |
| 10 | The warehouse had suffered considerably from the neglect associated with its low-grade use as a hay barn and was little more than a masonry shell devoid of weather-tight windows and doors when the work of conversion commenced . |
| 11 | The lands which formed the military frontier had suffered greatly from the passage of armies in both directions during the fierce fighting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , and when the defensive zone was established many of the villages had been depopulated . |
| 12 | Within fifty years Habsburg rule had penetrated southward from Inner Austria and Styria to the Adriatic , incorporating Carinthia and Carniola in 1335 . |
| 13 | The living-room door was open , and he could see that his duvet had migrated mysteriously from the bed to the armchair . |
| 14 | If the hammer had pointed away from the player , the check would not have worked . |
| 15 | Er some neighbours cut each other 's lawn while they 're away so the grass does n't grow too long and make sure that the mail 's moved away from the letter box . |
| 16 | The Committee has shied away from recommending any sanction more drastic than public censure , such as delisting , for failure to include the statement of compliance , and it is to rely on shareholders to use their influence to ensure compliance with the elements of the code . |
| 17 | Rachel 's Dairy has grown slowly from selling pots of cream in local shops to a distribution network that covers a large chunk of Britain . |
| 18 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 19 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
| 20 | Current educational philosophy has moved away from focusing on the physical or sensory basis of disability and so it may initially appear that an understanding of the cause of a child 's disability is primarily a medical matter and not one of concern to the educator . |
| 21 | One of these genes , Oct-11b , is likely to be a pseudogene having diverged significantly from Oct-11a ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 22 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 23 | I just believed for awhile that the dream had gotten away from me … |
| 24 | And , if anyone needed further proof of guilt after that , Alex Household had run away from the scene of the crime . |
| 25 | Those looking for straws in the wind on the right to roam issue have gained much from a statement made by Roger Carr , former chair of the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 26 | I believe that the Community has gained also from our membership because Britain has determined its direction in so many ways — on budget reform , on reform of the common agricultural policy , on the single market , on free competition within Europe and on free trade with the rest of the world . |
| 27 | Attention has turned away from the national work force to their managers , as Mrs Thatcher 's told British businessmen ; they 're earning too much . |
| 28 | If the sponge part has worn down ( it should be nice and springy and approximately one centimetre deep all the way along ) , or if the foam has worn away from the metal piece holding it , you need a new one . |
| 29 | But further confirmation of the agency discrimination against the area was provided by another contributor who said that the IDB has run away from Belfast and is out around Newtownabbey , Newtownards and Castlereagh . |
| 30 | At the West end of the Church a beam has moved away from the wall by nine inches . |