Example sentences of "away from [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The current trend towards ever higher emissions would be curbed by energy conservation ( accounting for around 43 per cent of the required reduction ) and a shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy ( accounting for the remaining 57 per cent ) .
2 But it will shift attention away from state structures towards a consideration of the actual politics occurring in and around these local state institutions .
3 Given the emphasis on Christianity in the ERA 1988 , parents from religious minority groups may now feel more inclined to exercise the right to withdraw their children from religious education at school , and perhaps also the right to have their children receive a particular form of RE away from school premises during school hours if appropriate arrangements can be made .
4 The ‘ revolution ’ refers not only to the paper binding of volumes ( which had already occurred in the nineteenth century ) but much more to a shift in distribution methods , away from specialist outlets for books .
5 Despite a great deal of talk about the Foundation moving emphasis away from operating systems towards its Distributed Computing and Distributed Management Environments , DCE and DME , Reilly claimed that the number of OSF/1 binaries shipped this year — set at 100,000 — would be doubled next year .
6 In all cases the strife has fundamentally weakened central governments , diverting both energy and money away from development issues to the domestic conflicts which assume overwhelming importance .
7 Let's let's go away from trig functions for a bit .
8 Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar .
9 For some the trend of the 1990s is to move away from package holidays towards the individual tour where travel agents help the client to arrange a personal itinerary .
10 Government sources have suggested that the country 's tourist industry should switch away from package holidays towards more up-market " cultural " tourism .
11 The implication here for policy-makers who would wish to promote movement away from transmission patterns of teaching is that there is a need to ease and improve those conditions that currently incline teachers towards survival more than mere coping , and towards the control-centred transmission-style pedagogies that follow from it .
12 Doug Gowan , of the TUC Education Department , argues that the courses are intended to develop skills and techniques rather than transmit abstract and academic knowledge ; the TUC has tried to dissuade tutors from thinking in terms of ‘ subjects ’ or ‘ disciplines ’ , and instead to shift towards ‘ student-centred educational methods ’ which shift away from classroom styles towards something more like a trade union meeting or office discussion :
13 The next part of the discussion moves away from research institutions to farmers and pastoralists themselves , and concerns the accessibility of new agricultural technology to these people .
14 We are attempting to investigate the influences that act on girls and women when they are making the crucial ‘ O ’ Level , ‘ A ’ Level and college and career choices , and which channel them away from research jobs in hard science .
15 Always you find this exhilarating sense of freedom — away from tourist honeypots like Killarney where the pony and cart cowboys hassle coach parties unmercifully .
16 A major reason for this has been the move by customers away from cash transactions to cheque and credit card transactions .
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