Example sentences of "away from [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which is in the process of a major expansion drive aimed at moving away from its traditional freezer centre image , made pre-tax profits of £30.1m in the six months to July 3 from £24.22m previously . |
| 2 | A package of new loans made public last week reveals that the nation will move away from its traditional hunting ground of French-speaking Africa , where it has always had a science presence , and towards English-speaking and Latin American nations and the Far East . |
| 3 | Since WWF 's change to its present name from World Wildlife Fund it has , to quote a staffer in a rival pressure group , ‘ been trying to get away from its cuddly animal image ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Cristiani suspended ties between the two countries in the wake of the incident and threatened to boycott tomorrow 's summit meeting unless it was moved away from its planned Managua venue . |
| 5 | Because of the pressure of space , I can not enter into the arguments about whether Buddhism is a theistic religion , and how far it has moved away from its Hindu parent religion . |
| 6 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 7 | Perhaps that was why she did n't want to lunch with him alone , away from their usual theatre crowd . |
| 8 | Tracks like ‘ Is Wrestling Fixed ? ’ and the poignant ‘ England ’ were ( are ! ) convincing enough progressions away from their old ramalama Pet Shop Boys punk to suggest that they have n't run out ideas yet . |
| 9 | Bristol C 2 , Leicester 1 LEICESTER 'S promotion hopes took a jolt against a bouyant Bristol City , who under new manager Denis Smith , are pulling away from their own relegation fears . |
| 10 | Bortoni-Ricardo did not posit a linguistic movement by the migrants in the direction of an urban standardized norm of the kind familiar in studies using the social class variable ( see further 6.3.1 ) ; taking the group 's own linguistic norms as a starting point , she examined the extent to which speakers had moved away from their stigmatized Caipira dialect . |
| 11 | Then she yelled ‘ Beep ’ so loudly I ended up a yard away from our communal house phone which is nailed to the wall just inside the front door . |
| 12 | At 72 , the former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party has slipped quietly away from his lifelong East Durham home . |
| 13 | Chris used to live in a council house , a stone 's throw away from his new £500,000 pad . |
| 14 | In 1832 , he moved away from his beloved Helps ton to a larger house in bleak North borough on the edge of the tens . |
| 15 | And you you people are destroying that situation by taking away from us true family values . |