Example sentences of "has [vb pp] away [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice . |
| 2 | ‘ The cannabis field has moved away from the drug abuse side of things . |
| 3 | At the West end of the Church a beam has moved away from the wall by nine inches . |
| 4 | In recent years emphasis has moved away from the teaching of ‘ craft ’ skills such as cookery and sewing towards the development of a range of practical and organisational skills which will enable young people to cope with the demands of living in constantly changing social and economic conditions . |
| 5 | It has been said that ‘ … during the last forty years the United Kingdom has moved away from the nationality citizenship model ’ . |
| 6 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 7 | Mrs Brown , 35 , has since made a full recovery but was unable to attend the ceremony because she has moved away from the area . |
| 8 | If the sponge part has worn down ( it should be nice and springy and approximately one centimetre deep all the way along ) , or if the foam has worn away from the metal piece holding it , you need a new one . |
| 9 | Hollow areas , where rendering has blistered away from the wall , are also prone to damp |
| 10 | Many of these weaknesses will emerge more clearly in later chapters , where we shall see how powerfully the pendulum has swung away from the position of Liberal Theology in recent generations , at least among the leaders and pioneers of theological thinking . |