Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point . |
| 2 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 3 | You see how hard it is to see just from the graph , from a , from |
| 4 | But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 . |
| 5 | His favourite custom is to loom out from the wayside and startle travellers . |
| 6 | The other course is to withdraw altogether from the awareness , towards a liberation from emotional entanglements in an amoral indifference for which others are no more than means . |
| 7 | The natural tendency for a loaded rucksack is to lean away from the wearer , forcing them to lean forwards to counterbalance it . |
| 8 | ‘ The idea of the new move is to get away from the possibilities of cross-contamination ’ , a ministry spokeswoman said . |
| 9 | ‘ Our aim is to take away from the franchisee all those areas which are expensive or difficult for a small business to operate , ’ says Mr Gamlin . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It does n't really matter if you succeed in catching the opponent 's foot or not : the main objective is to move out from the opponent 's centre-line while turning to face him . |
| 12 | She was barely aware of other tourists as the sound of their feet rang out on the cobbled streets , and over the following hours Fabia was deep in everything there was to see apart from the castle and the National Gallery with its collection of old and new European art . |
| 13 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 14 | The contribution was to come jointly from the employee , the employer and the state . |
| 15 | I used to get a pretty good idea of what was to come just from the way they shook hands with a grown-up . |
| 16 | Her first instinct was to sweep majestically from the terrace , as any affronted heroine would feel impelled to do . |
| 17 | Part of the purpose of education reform was to delegate downwards from the Department of Education , closer to the chalk face , tasks such as determining the necessary budgets , teacher numbers , and so forth . |
| 18 | One of Beecher 's favourite oratorical gimmicks , which he used to great effect in England , was to lean down from the dais to tell a humorous story but only audible to the front row . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Leonard was to learn much from the Pennsylvanian , who helped to inspire his interest in Eastern thought , not least through his translations of the Chinese poet Li Po . |
| 20 | The whole night had been a strain , and now all she wanted was to get away from the throng , and , more importantly , away from Luke . |
| 21 | As we have seen , one of the main intentions of interactionism was to get away from the conservative , causal-corrective stance that was seen as resulting from the determinism and absolutism of positivist criminology . |
| 22 | I had a back pocket full of readies as I planned on doing some Christmas shopping while up West and I had no intention of joining the Christmas Eve rush to the lingerie departments of the big stores , so the first thing was to get away from the temptation of the HMV shop . |
| 23 | If the Labour Party was to recover intellectually from the collapse of MacDonald 's " biological gradualism " and to build its local organisation it needed support from radical intellectuals and from the youth . |
| 24 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |