Example sentences of "move away from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 2 | He moved away from the strange man , anxious to leave quickly . |
| 3 | They then moved away from the main circuit , onto a piece of rough ground for the ‘ Formula Finesse Auto Test ’ . |
| 4 | ANDREW put down his binoculars and moved away from the grey lace that hung from the curve of the curtain-wire in front of his window . |
| 5 | An interesting trend in recent years is that the balance of support for the DMS has moved away from the private sector of industry and business towards the public sector , especially among the large nationalized companies . |
| 6 | They have moved away from the central area . |
| 7 | Health promotion has , rightly , moved away from the traditional approach , but let us not dismiss health education fully until it has been properly implemented , let alone evaluated . |
| 8 | Murray Johnstone , on the other hand , has moved away from the up-front commission structure , believing that it is more efficient for advisers to charge fees for their services . |
| 9 | One of the very few art historians to have moved away from the unique art object to consider more mundane phenomena is Gombrich , whose book , The Sense of Order ( 1979 ) attempts to make generalizations about the nature of design , as opposed to art . |
| 10 | One thing I 've learnt in the last half hour is the speed at which the rules of debate seem to be changing and it will not surprise you to hear that as Mr Allenby and Harrogate District Council have moved towards Professor Lock 's point of view , they have moved away from the Civic Society 's point of view . |
| 11 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , we were unable to contribute to a resolution of these problems without moving away from the non-participant minority shareholding which has always been central to our involvement in Bank of Edinburgh . ’ |
| 13 | Molly Allen , the disability team manager , explained how the service is moving away from the traditional model of care . |
| 14 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |
| 15 | At the same time , in political terms , Costa Rica has been drawn much more closely into the US sphere of influence during the 1980s , moving away from the neutral stance it previously took , so that for a time it was one of the host countries for the US-backed Nicaraguan Contras . |
| 16 | As Laura 's personal taste was moving away from the little cottage sprigs , Jane believed it was important that she was not deluged in an avalanche of everything that was vaguely old ; that , for example , French eighteenth century was not mixed with Welsh nineteenth century . |
| 17 | She was already moving away from the little cot and had her hand on the gas mantle and was turning it down . |
| 18 | The gig sold out months ago and , despite EMF 's claims to be moving away from the teeny audience , Silverfish are forced to open the show a good two hours earlier than normal to accommodate the expected exodus of punters heading for an early bedtime . |
| 19 | Current educational thinking is moving away from the whole concept of labelling children by closely defined categories , and the emphasis is rather on the individual needs of children and on the shared aspects of their development and learning . |
| 20 | Those most dedicated to soccer culture became known as ‘ Terrace Terrors ’ , but their successors are currently moving away from the baggy trouser and braces image that they fostered . |
| 21 | Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe . |
| 22 | They have all had much the same aim of moving away from the sharp-pointed pyramid with its traditional hierarchical approach . |
| 23 | Moving away from the main season reduces the chances of a windy afternoon . |
| 24 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 25 | Let us move away from the special case of solipsism and sensation terms , and consider a case which may seem simpler ( actually it is the hardest case in which to make the point plausible ) . |
| 26 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 27 | Perhaps there is still hope that professional golf will move away from the humdrum format of 72-hole medals and the public will realise that these events become viewable only at their conclusion when they turn into match-play . |
| 28 | This alternative model moves away from the conventional idea of a child with learning difficulties to one which recognises and builds on the child 's learning achievements . |
| 29 | Adrian Pilkington 's " Poetic Effects : A Relevance Theory Perspective " challenges the conventionalist position and moves away from the social relativity of the definition of literature . |
| 30 | It is not only the countries of the Community who are scaling down their military spending : as the USSR itself moves away from the military base of its economy , we should seek ways of working together over arms conversion . |