Example sentences of "[adv] withdrawing from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that he did not consider that by taking the brahmacārya vow he was necessarily withdrawing from the life of society , which was one reason why he resented being called an ascetic . |
| 2 | Tomkins made an offer of £935m for Ranks Hovis McDougall and Hanson decided not to increase its offer of £790m , thereby withdrawing from the bidding . |
| 3 | Blaming its current economic difficulties on the absence of multilateral aid ( frozen since the coup ) , the government announced on Aug. 26 that it was temporarily withdrawing from the Andean Pact , the five-country trade bloc whose other members were Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador and Venezuela . |
| 4 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 5 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 6 | In the current political climate , with the state sector steadily withdrawing from the provision of public services and the private sector providing alternatives only where there is a possibility of profit , the third sector of the economy , that of charitable organisations , becomes increasingly important . |