Example sentences of "move [adv] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 2 | They consider that you can only move on from an unhappy experience if you have given it some meaning . |
| 3 | Martin Postle splices detail and generalisation , so that he can move deftly from a meticulous account of Reynolds ' studio practice to the perceptive observation that ‘ it was not Reynolds ’ style but his lack of style which characterised his work at this time as sitters danced , flirted , embroidered , sacrificed to pagan deities , or merely meditated , in the manner of Guido Reni , Titian , Van Dyck or even Michelangelo ’ . |
| 4 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 5 | My personal hope is that we shall move away from a formalised dichotonomy of university and non-university institutions , and that there will be a less obvious division : two groups of educational organisations with parity of esteem in the public mind . |
| 6 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 7 | GRAMPIAN 'S campaign to win access to greater European funding will move up from a fast trot to canter , now that the Highlands and Islands look to have won their case , said regional convener Bob Middleton yesterday , writes Peter Jones . |
| 8 | ( One might argue against the concept of ‘ right-minded persons ’ , which moves away from a statistical concept such as ‘ most people ’ or ‘ the ordinary citizen ’ and seems to seek a moral plane which is ‘ right-minded ’ , a question-begging approach in this context . ) |
| 9 | Once it has been formed at a mid-oceanic ridge new oceanic lithosphere subsides as it moves away from a spreading centre and becomes cooler , thicker and more dense ( see Section 17.6.3 ) . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that such sediments are characteristic of aseismic continental shelves as they move away from a mid-oceanic ridge . |
| 11 | As we saw in Chapter 1 , later Marxist explanations ( e.g. Apple 1982 ) move away from a deterministic model towards a looser one , which emphasizes hegemony and cultural resistance . |
| 12 | For them , the shift required , and in part even achieved , was theological rather than administrative : the Council represented a decisive , if still partial , move away from a one-sided theology which had prevailed in the Roman communion across the Middle Ages , the Counter Reformation and ultramontanism . |
| 13 | I think erm there is a erm a size issue that enters into that particular consideration , erm clearly erm if you build a small new settlement very close to an existing large settlement , then the prospects for that being reasonably self contained are much reduced to that of a larger new settlement in the same location , and I would agree that the further in in general the further you move away from an existing centre then the likelihood is that that settlement will become more self contained . |
| 14 | Whilst many local authorities in Scotland appear to be rolling forward the present DSS rates , we are keen to move away from a flat-rate fee which bears little relation to the intensity of service ( and costs incurred ) in meeting the needs of different people . |
| 15 | Over the next 10 years , we need to move away from a production-based support mechanism to a mechanism that supports environmental protection . |
| 16 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |