Example sentences of "get away from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're getting away from the immediate problem . |
| 3 | ‘ We are getting away from the labour party for industrial workers , ’ says Walter Momper , the SPD mayor of Berlin and one of the new generation of leaders . |
| 4 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 6 | Just getting away from the madding crowd proves to be a major feat on the most crowded island on Earth . |
| 7 | This is seen as an important means of getting away from the elitist concept and encouraging everyone to take a longer view , even if his or her immediate task involves short-term objectives . |
| 8 | It is when we get away from the domestic scene that the more serious flaws become apparent . |
| 9 | It is formed by the light that just fails to get away from the black hole but stays hovering on the edge . |
| 10 | It means that the boundary of the black hole , the event horizon , is formed by the paths in space-time of rays of light that just fail to get away from the black hole , hovering forever just on the edge ( Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | To get away from the metropolitan elitism that The Late Show is still trying to live down , Artrageous ! kicks off tonight with a location report from Bradford on sculpture . |
| 13 | ‘ A set of toys has been carefully chosen to get away from the narrow road safety image , ’ a spokesman for the scheme said . |
| 14 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 15 | Kylie was also keen to get away from the mass-produced soap to work with material of a more sophisticated calibre . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're trying to get away from the rowdy image . |
| 18 | Both sides of my family left rural south China for Malaya to get away from the grinding poverty , encouraged by the British to fill their need for cheap labour in their colonies . |
| 19 | Sorvino could n't think of a better reason to get away from the ice-pick drone of the alarm . |
| 20 | I had to make an instant decision , so I steered Foinavon to the right — the outside — to get away from the main part of the melee . |
| 21 | He was glad to get away from the brooding perplexity of the honest official . |
| 22 | But after a while she became involved in a quarrel with them , and was trying to get away from the angry group , when Alec d'Urberville rode by . |
| 23 | The problem is how to get away from the encroaching flood water . |
| 24 | He had straightened too when , anxious to get away from the wretched subject of his dog and her foolhardiness , she felt that it might be an idea if she stated her business . |