Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 2 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 3 | BEHIND THE IRISH TROUBLES The image of Northern Ireland has suffered greatly from the continual strife there , but the Industrial Development Board is successfully wooing overseas employers . |
| 4 | An interesting trend in recent years is that the balance of support for the DMS has moved away from the private sector of industry and business towards the public sector , especially among the large nationalized companies . |
| 5 | Murray Johnstone , on the other hand , has moved away from the up-front commission structure , believing that it is more efficient for advisers to charge fees for their services . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fashion has moved away from the big , glitzy authors because all that conspicuous consumption is just not admirable or enviable any more , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Attention has turned away from the national work force to their managers , as Mrs Thatcher 's told British businessmen ; they 're earning too much . |
| 10 | He has acted thus from the soundest of motives , being determined to ensure the safety of his sovereign and nephew — his brother 's son . |
| 11 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 12 | Over in Australia , Dave has played everywhere from the tough mining towns of the North to the blues clubs on his home turf of Perth . |
| 13 | Basically the paper suggested that we should consider moving away from the tax-financed National Health Service to private health insurance . |
| 14 | The first has emerged largely from the traditional study of public administration and argues that transposing a model of management developed in the private sector will fail because public sector management is distinctive ( see for example Elcock 1991 ; Pollitt 1991 ; Stewart and Ranson 1988 ; Flynn 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Now , are there any aspects about the isomerism you want clarifying apart from the whole lot ? |
| 16 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 17 | This has resulted partly from the increased participation of married women and the ‘ coming of age ’ of the main post-war baby boom , but has of course been influenced greatly at more local level by migration . |
| 18 | I ca n't wait to get away from the Aged Ps again . |
| 19 | Mark : I certainly identify with the attitude of a contradiction between my one-to-one relationships and the image of what should happen to try to get away from the heterosexual attitude to relationships . |
| 20 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 21 | Desire was a leaping sheet of flame now , consuming Maria , the erotic furnace their mouths had become only an imitation of an inward eruption of molten passion that seemed to flow outward from the secret heart of her need , enveloping her utterly . |
| 22 | Another volley of bullets came flying across from the German lines . |
| 23 | Although this herb has its origin in Southern Europe and western Asia , its common name is said to derive either from the Anglo-Saxon dylle or the old Norse dilla which meant to soothe or lull , in reference to its use in calming infants who had hiccups — in fact Culpeper said " it stayeth the hiccough . " |
| 24 | It was seen to derive directly from the dual functions of the state , the securing of accumulation and legitimation . |
| 25 | In those days , dealers were seen running madly from the nearest underground station at 8.20 a.m. , or else clambering into taxis . |
| 26 | They were just starting on it when two larger rabbits came running across from the other side of the near-by cattle-wade . |
| 27 | Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock . |
| 28 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 29 | Correlations in this area , especially in non-Marxist work but still in most Marxist work hitherto , have tended to proceed less from the steady analysis of evidence than from relatively a priori concepts , usually of a strictly contemporary kind , to which such evidence as there is is illustratively added . |
| 30 | They are the teeth that stand to benefit most from the conservative approach advocated by Dr Anusavice and like-minded practitioners . |