Example sentences of "away from [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly there is also now a distinct movement away from employability as the motive for partnership towards that of citizenship . |
| 2 | Hill ran away from school at the age of twelve to work on an uncle 's farm . |
| 3 | Hilton says they turn away from involvement in the world , and , in words which more immediately evoke the liberation and peace which are the goals of the rigours of contemplative life , he says that they : That is , they rid themselves from involvement with any possessions not strictly needed for physical survival and escape from the demands and goals of social success to a different kind of service . |
| 4 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 5 | And while he was on the film set or wherever he was you know , away from home for the week , he 'd be playing around with every bit of skirt he could find . |
| 6 | It was n't as if you could rely on him being away from home during the working day . |
| 7 | These include relative isolation , taken as more than 20 km from urban areas ; social class , defined as the proportion of the population in the registrar general 's classes I and II ; density of children , taken crudely as the number of enumeration districts in a given sector having 100 or more children ( postcode sectors are fairly large , and acreages of enumeration districts are not available ) ; and increases from 1971 to 1981 in the numbers of men working away from home in the construction and energy industries ( ‘ recent oil impact measure ’ ) . |
| 8 | To get one goal away from home in the World Cup is good . |
| 9 | Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League . |
| 10 | Probably all three of them were away from court at the time of the murder : Waddo was certainly in the retinue of Chilperic 's daughter Rigunth , who was en route for Spain , where she was to have been married . |
| 11 | The lesson of the story is clear : re-established in Downing Street , John Major may feel he has steered the British political system away from contamination by the international . |
| 12 | In education recently , there has been a move away from over-emphasis on the assimilation of facts to an appreciation of the need for pupils to experience the processes by which one learns . |
| 13 | Because of this pedigree , the opinions of the Left and of liberals have shied away from examination of the issue of morality in relation to crime . |