Example sentences of "to move away [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She shut the door , and the car started to move away along the quiet road . |
| 2 | Not only was the boat moving away from land , but this 147-year-old colony is also beginning to move away from the Prince of Wales and the country he represents . |
| 3 | Two visits to Oakwell , incognito , also persuaded him that a more immediate priority , to move away from the lower reaches of the Second Division , is realisable . |
| 4 | In the early 1960s generous grants were made available to encourage farmers to move away from the village centre where lack of hygiene and noise were obviously troublesome to ‘ re-settle ’ near their plots of land . |
| 5 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 6 | The aim to move away from the language of entitlement to the language of obligation is very different from the language of freedom and liberty which dominated the earlier phases of Thatcherism . |
| 7 | He has created regional delegations , encouraged bodies that finance innovation , such as ANVAR , to move away from the capital , and generally supported initiatives in research at regional level . |
| 8 | Although it may be argued that a meaningful measure of comprehensive income can not be provided unless a full system of current value accounting is employed , the introduction of the SCFW is likely to encourage the preparers of financial statements to move away from the historical cost system and to value relevant assets at current values . |
| 9 | The organisation is about to move away from the combined paper-based and spreadsheet systems it has been using to produce its statutory and management accounts . |
| 10 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 11 | These inspired the Chinese people and within a few years , there had been major efforts to move away from the centralised , planned economic system which was typical of communist regimes . |
| 12 | The old standards of nursing management having superior status to clinical nurses are gradually phasing themselves out , and certainly in the future you will not have to move away from the bedside solely to boost levels of pay . |
| 13 | Recent commentaries on the mass media derived from within the broad Marxist tradition have attempted to move away from the simplistic view of the mass media as mere relay systems ; a view which implicitly suggests that the study of the mass media is not problematic since their ownership ( usually by large corporations ) pre-determines the nature of their work . |
| 14 | If the Steam Tank is obliged to expend steam points because of a ‘ malfunction ’ result on the Boiler Table , the steam points must be used to move away from the enemy during the turn in which it is affected . |
| 15 | Far from being modifications to Freud , Talcott Parsons 's changes to the theory remove the whole purpose of sociologists turning to Freud in order to move away from the over-socialized conception of man . |
| 16 | ‘ I know , ’ Whitlock replied but made no attempt to move away from the railing . |
| 17 | The mouse 's natural response is to move away from the handler and while pulling gently backwards on the tail the mouse can be pinned to the grid between the thumb and bent forefinger of the free hand . |
| 18 | Much of this has been changed by the 1988 Code of Criminal Procedure , which attempts to move away from the inquisitorial system and to introduce adversarial elements into the criminal process . |
| 19 | The shorter the boat , the more easily the boat goes off course and the more the paddle blade needs to move away from the boat 's side whilst we propel it forward . |
| 20 | It can be shown that electrons and ions co-rotating at distances from Jupiter greater than the Keplerian orbit of co-rotation ( section 6.1.1 ) tend to move away from the planet . |
| 21 | It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) . |
| 22 | The citizens charter reform means that the Government are making a determined effort to move away from the era when the gentlemen in Whitehall always knew best towards a more open , accountable public service , striving to do better . |
| 23 | Overall , the reforms ( particularly the CSFs ) represented a further attempt to move away from the passive form of EC regional aid , whereby EC expenditure was simply added to nationally determined projects , and regional policy was therefore little more than a system of budgetary transfers . |
| 24 | We 've had some discussion with the College to seek to resolve this , and the proposals erm , are set out in paragraph four , three , er , in that it would mean that the College would not take over the ownership of the site , er , and it , but , but they would continue to occupy their part of the site er , effectively rent free from the County Council , but if , at any time , they decided they , the College wanted to move away from the site , it would revert to the County Council , it would n't actually become a College asset . |
| 25 | We need to move away from the idea that ‘ they ’ — women , people from ethnic minorities and the disabled — are a problem . |
| 26 | Er , the woman put her hands up as well and then we started to move away from the door , er across the room er to avoid being stuck as a silhouette in the doorway . |
| 27 | Durham School captain Richard Elliott , who was to have replaced him , will be on the bench as City attempt to move away from the relegation zone . |
| 28 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |