Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cole ( 1986 ) has investigated twelve high-use and twelve low-use campsites located away from the main tourist access routes in three desert vegetation types consisting of desert scrub , catclaw ( Acacia greggi ) and piñon-juniper ( Pinus edulie–Juniperus osteosperma ) communities . |
| 2 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 3 | Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself . |
| 4 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 5 | They then moved away from the main circuit , onto a piece of rough ground for the ‘ Formula Finesse Auto Test ’ . |
| 6 | From the tip of the headland and for some way out to sea the waves were breaking white against half-submerged fangs and stacks of rock that had in time past broken away from the main cliffs . |
| 7 | Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy . |
| 8 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 9 | Ten PPP MPs from Sind demanded the right to sit separately from the main PPP block in the National Assembly . |
| 10 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 11 | From here walk away from the main road and go left onto Dene Terrace , crossing the stile into the wood at the end . |
| 12 | We may even wish to veer away from the main subject to investigate an interesting sidepath . |
| 13 | They turned away from the main street , towards the river and the closed docks . |
| 14 | But its reports are not as comprehensive , they have to be requested singly from the main menu ( which means multiple passes of your text through the analyser ) and the reports may not offer the intuitive help that the other programs give you . |
| 15 | Thus there is a tendency , if we once accept a sharp distinction between good as means and good as end , to see the point of life in those leisure activities , or at least in activities which stand apart from the main work of the world , such as high culture and very private personal relations . |
| 16 | This varies little from the main route . |
| 17 | Simmons 's rooms were next to the staircase , not , as she had hoped , overlooking the quadrangle , but facing away from the main college building . |
| 18 | Newman spotted the track leading off to the right and swung away from the main road . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 20 | Moving away from the main season reduces the chances of a windy afternoon . |
| 21 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 22 | Inserts are a useful means of cutting away from the main subject to some subsidiary action while keeping the original sound going under the insert . |
| 23 | Built in 1990 , the Hotel Rina is a modern , well-furnished property set away from the main road . |
| 24 | If you locked up one of these shawlies , as you were coming away from the Main Bridewell , you would usually find a deputation of shawlies coming running down the road . |
| 25 | an accent mark which is set separately from the main character and is then placed either over or under it . |
| 26 | Ideally , the carpet should lie with the pile running away from the main , or only , window in the room . |
| 27 | ‘ Plates ’ , that is , whole page illustrations printed separately from the main text , and often on different paper , are not part of the original gathering and are therefore not signed . |
| 28 | to use trip chain analysis to identify categories of travel that are amenable to analysis and modelling separately from the main peak-hour movements . |
| 29 | On April 10 a pro-Soviet PCCh faction claiming 2,000 supporters was reported to have split away from the main party when a group of leading members resigned accusing the leadership of a " lack of internal democracy " . |
| 30 | Later on in my career , again in the press , he called me a ‘ sheltered athlete ’ who kept away from the main opposition . |