Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock . |
| 16 | One of the most intriguing of evolutionary clues is the close chemical similarity between many hormones and the substances that function within the nervous system as neurotransmitters , suggesting that perhaps the second group , the neurotransmitters , may have developed evolutionarily from the first . |
| 17 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 18 | If she had been listening she would n't have learned much from the brief courtesy call from CI5 HQ . |
| 19 | There followed a rather more conventional period where his activities seem to have differed little from the other young gentlemen of his day ; he studied scientific works on medicine and the natural sciences and pursued a particular interest in taking thermometer readings under varying conditions , including some from the craters of Italian volcanoes . |
| 20 | The finds from the Harappan sites in the Indus basin , sparse and dating from several centuries later , are more likely to have come independently from the common Afghan source . |
| 21 | One of the very few art historians to have moved away from the unique art object to consider more mundane phenomena is Gombrich , whose book , The Sense of Order ( 1979 ) attempts to make generalizations about the nature of design , as opposed to art . |
| 22 | They seemed to have landed away from the red paralysis , but as he looked around he could see the castle being encroached upon from all directions by the strange weed . |
| 23 | On April 10 a pro-Soviet PCCh faction claiming 2,000 supporters was reported to have split away from the main party when a group of leading members resigned accusing the leadership of a " lack of internal democracy " . |
| 24 | In the 1980s , British industry is seen to have evolved away from the self-contained mass production factory toward ‘ flexible production ’ , making shorter runs for particular customers and supported by greater sub-contracting of supplies and services . |
| 25 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 26 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 27 | That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body . |
| 28 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 29 | Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy . |
| 30 | Behind them were Austin Currie , Proinsias Mac Aonghusa and David Green of Citizens for PR in the Irish Republic , and three Westminster Labour MPs , Russell Kerr , Ann Kerr and John Ryan , who had travelled directly from the Labour Party conference with Gerry Fitt . |