Example sentences of "away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl 's slim figure , small breasts , and pony tail haircut are those of an adolescent , while her pose , one foot at right angles to the other , is just a little away from the third position in classical Western ballet . |
| 2 | I knew Gail Benson slightly when she was a schoolgirl , and remember a pretty moon face , big eyes , a freckled complexion deepening to russet , dark hair parted down the middle — a nut-brown maid and modern miss who must have wanted to be away from the French Lycée in South Kensington , shy , uneasy , wound-up . |
| 3 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 4 | In many cases students will also tour in productions mounted by the school , and this gives good audience experience away from the greenhouse of school performances , where the people who sit in the audience are usually either professionally interested , or are fellow students and friends . |
| 5 | Sometimes you 're a week away from the last performance you gave and then find yourself out there — so that the voice and understanding of the part does need constant refreshing . |
| 6 | Bishop Cahal Daly has argued that the debate on multi-denominational schools has effectively taken people 's attention away from the central issues in Northern Ireland , namely social injustice , fundamental political inequality , and the violence . |
| 7 | Hundreds of customers ' details can be stored on one diskette , as can whole spreadsheets , and the diskettes can then be kept safely in a secure place away from the computer . |
| 8 | You are never far away from the decision-making in this kind of work , so you learn how to manage a whole range of areas and can be involved at a high level relatively quickly . ’ |
| 9 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |
| 10 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 11 | It faces south-west and slopes gently away from the house . |
| 12 | Moving away from the terrace , broad steps drop down past a rose and herb bed edged with low growing box to the first lawn level , which would make an ideal play area . |
| 13 | Both these plants are hardy and although not in the front rank of ornamentals , are worth growing in a large border or even on the bank of a stream or lake provided they are kept away from the wet margin . |
| 14 | A more reliable test is whether a fruit comes away from the plant without much persuasion . |
| 15 | Use any area of lift but do not drift away from the chosen field . |
| 16 | Throughout the training , landing out is usually treated as such a serious misdemeanour that the inexperienced pilot is often influenced into trying desperately hard to get back if he either inadvertently drifts away from the site or gets lost during a local soaring flight . |
| 17 | Being directly overhead , the field is one of the worst positions from which to extricate yourself because you have to fly blind , away from the field , for quite a long time to get out to the side for a reasonable base leg . |
| 18 | As the hair grows , the eggs are carried further away from the scalp and become white or grey in colour , because they have hatched out . |
| 19 | Foucault ( 1980 ) details the move away from the army , to control by the civil police ; describing how the judicial control and surveillance systems emerged . |
| 20 | I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ . |
| 21 | The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians , the media , and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates . |
| 22 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |
| 23 | The woman had short very black hair , stylishly cut away from the curve of her jaw ; her head was upright , and her firm chin rested on one hand . |
| 24 | The group hears , leers , regroups away from the warning ripples from her slumped body . |
| 25 | Certainly that was a part of it : fear of in love and rejection had sent Jay along the sands away from her , away from the pattern of I-love-her , she-loves-me-not . |
| 26 | In the first photograph , the defender has twisted his hips away from the kick and faces 120° to the incoming technique . |
| 27 | You turn away from the onslaught and , in so doing , remove all possibility of a strong , scoring counterattack . |
| 28 | Do not turn your centre-line away from the opponent , because this both delays and weakens the follow-up attack |
| 29 | There are occasions during which you turn away from the opponent , but these are deliberate and short-lived , leading in to a particular technique . |
| 30 | Remember to keep your body turned square-on and never be tempted to twist your hips away from the opponent . |