Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , his senses remained strained and alert for several hundred paces , but there was no more hint of a shadow , and as he moved away from the busier streets he became increasingly confident that he was alone . |
| 2 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 3 | However , suffering from badly-burned fingers , the venture capital industry has moved away from the riskier entrepreneurial start-ups to investing more in developing companies and MBOs . |
| 4 | Much as in 1980–1 , the ‘ social causes ’ argument can not be seen separately from the broader debate about the future of the British economy and society . |
| 5 | This results primarily from the greater longevity of women compared with men ; life expectancy at birth is 78 years for women and 72 years for men , while at 65 it is 17 years for women and 16 years for men . |
| 6 | In this respect his art and that of the New Sculptors differed little from the earlier romantic neo-classicism of a sculptor like , whose work would nevertheless have been decried by the same practitioners as cold and outmoded . |
| 7 | ‘ You can see better from the lower door , ’ I remarked , turning to go down the path . |
| 8 | Museum purchasing shifted away from the earlier insistence by private collectors on masterpieces , towards the art-historical importance of the paintings , and selection tended to veer towards works which ‘ they were unlikely to receive by gift ’ from private donors . |
| 9 | She bit her lip and turned away from the older nurse . |
| 10 | Parliaments typically contain a section of people drawn disproportionately from the better-off sections of the community . |
| 11 | Dunning and colleagues do not pretend that football hooligans are drawn exclusively from the lower working class , or that all lower-working-class adolescents and young adults use the game as a context for fighting . |
| 12 | The 560 differs also from the later machines , in that when the machine is turned on , the same configuration of lights will come on as were on BEFORE the machine was turned off , including any of the pattern variation switches numbers 3 to 6 that were on . |
| 13 | So the emphasis in much contemporary biology is now shifting away from the earlier Darwinian concerns which , as we have seen , originally influenced the Chicago School . |
| 14 | But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family . |
| 15 | Outboard interplane struts slanted outward from the lower wingtips , but a system of sturdy inverted V-struts and single struts supported the three 485hp Bristol Jupiter IX radial engines mounted on the upper wing . |
| 16 | This changed treatment of the aged poor derived partly from the wider trend towards the improvement of institutional care . |
| 17 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 18 | Such a picture — derived essentially from the earlier atomist Democritus — may seem bleak to some , but to Epicurus and his followers it was productive of the calm ataraxia he valued . |
| 19 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 20 | In this situation , if your ferrets are introduced via entrance holes next to the tree 's trunk they must , as they progress through the burrow system , move away from the thicker roots . |
| 21 | This was the subject of long and enthusiastic review essays by Macaulay and Sir Walter Scott , who noted that Pilgrim 's Progress was unique as a book whose popularity had spread upwards from the lower to the upper classes instead of in the other direction . |
| 22 | Its growth is considered here as a specific political issue which , for the purposes of both clarity and brevity , is distinguished apart from the broader social history of the period . |
| 23 | The ordered-segmentation approach shares the Marxist view that hooligans come predominantly from the lower-working class ( Dunning et al. , 1986 ; 1988 ) . |
| 24 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 25 | Two visits to Oakwell , incognito , also persuaded him that a more immediate priority , to move away from the lower reaches of the Second Division , is realisable . |
| 26 | Of course , evacuation was only a part of the enormous social disruption brought about by the war ; but subsequent recollections by evacuees , such as those collected by B. S. Johnson , pay eloquent testimony to the lasting effects — both negative and positive — it had on those who endured it , and suggest that qualitatively it was an experience that stood apart from the wider social confusion of wartime . |