Example sentences of "getting away from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're getting away from the immediate problem . |
| 2 | ‘ We are getting away from the labour party for industrial workers , ’ says Walter Momper , the SPD mayor of Berlin and one of the new generation of leaders . |
| 3 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 5 | Just getting away from the madding crowd proves to be a major feat on the most crowded island on Earth . |
| 6 | This is seen as an important means of getting away from the elitist concept and encouraging everyone to take a longer view , even if his or her immediate task involves short-term objectives . |