Example sentences of "[noun sg] away [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are also starting to attract some of the best young talent away from the money-centre banks — and good brains allied to the skills of good management are almost as scarce as profits in America 's banking parlours these days . |
| 2 | With rapid and sustained economic growth more capital becomes available to finance investment in labour saving machinery , and higher labour rewards in the advanced sector of industry are thought to encourage the mobility of labour away from the small firm sector . |
| 3 | Climbs can weep for a while after heavy rain , but the rock away from the natural drainage lines dries quickly . |
| 4 | In fact , five minutes after checking the record collection ( nothing worth taping ) and the obvious places where you 'd lock the booze away from the hired help . |
| 5 | In the latter regard , assault on an employee away from the normal ‘ work ’ premises is also the concern of the authority . |
| 6 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 7 | Mercifully , these days , it 's easier to avoid costly mistakes by splashing out on a large bottle of something which is transformed into ‘ Eau de Old Socks ’ by your skin 's individual chemistry : if you ask politely in department stores , many perfume houses gladly hand out miniature sample vials of their wares , enabling you to make up your mind away from the high-pressure squirtings of over-zealous tester-bottle-wielders . |
| 8 | He turned his mind away from the private conviction that little Mickey Annan was somewhere lying dead ; deep beneath bracken on the moors ; under an old sack in some outhouse ; it did n't matter where . |
| 9 | Is it an old family ? ’ she asked brightly , trying to tear her mind away from the constant , destructive need to touch him . |
| 10 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 11 | The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out . |
| 12 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 13 | The seif dune differs from the barchan , therefore , in that the slip faces are on the side away from the strong wind and not facing the direction of advance as in the barchan . |
| 14 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | In fact , it did much to disguise Sadat 's unpopularity at home and his break away from the other countries of the Middle East . |
| 16 | The book aims to chart the direction in which communication in the Philippines can ‘ break away from the lingering structures and controls of the past regime towards the democratic , just and humane future Filipinos yearn for . ’ |
| 17 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 18 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |
| 19 | The males … are innovating in a direction away from the local Scottish prestige norm , but in accepting r-lessness their usage happens to coincide with a much larger national norm . |
| 20 | Nirvana away from the petty tour drama ( and drama queens ) : Chris Novoselic , Kurt ‘ Mr Disguise ’ Cobain and Dave Grohl |
| 21 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 22 | When he , Larsen and Karen had settled into the high cab , the girl in the middle , Rocky selected first gear and started them rolling slowly forward , following the other rig away from the roaring inferno behind them . |
| 23 | But the surrounding drain designed to carry all the toxic effluent away in the foul sewer system had become blocked . |
| 24 | It was to these that Frankie clung as he inched his way upward , making tortuously slow progress away from the slippery edges of the beck . |
| 25 | ‘ Aye , ’ Athelstan replied , gently guiding Philomel away from the snow-covered sewer which ran down the middle of the street . |
| 26 | At the same time Ruggia was supervising the final stages of the building of his new house on the hillside of Brusc , a small town in the Var region , less than a kilometre away from the Mediterranean . |
| 27 | Delia Sutherland 's finger pressed a black-and-white photograph of a woman lifting her hair away from the grabbing hand of the baby in her arms . |
| 28 | And there were all sorts of ways of taking money away from the wealthy and stupid . |
| 29 | The county add that new direction signing on the A3 and A325 should direct through traffic on the Woolmer Road link away from the existing A325 through Greatham . |
| 30 | She polished the chrome , and wiped sand away from the stained-glass frontage , but it was finally useless , just another piece of garbage from a past that could have happened to someone else for all the trace it had left on her . |