Example sentences of "[vb -s] away [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men in small firms experience an earlier and lower peak growth rate which very quickly drops away after the twenty-fifth year of service . |
| 2 | Congressman Solarz also beavers away on the duller stuff that most of his colleagues see little point in pursuing . |
| 3 | For them to taketh away with the same greedy hand is no longer tolerable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | According to this theory of disease , which is strongly held in many societies , virtue , as it were , drains away from the stricken victim and his powers and health fail accordingly . |
| 6 | As the joystick tilts away from the vertical the mercury flows in the chosen direction and makes one or more electrical contacts , just as though a switch had closed . |
| 7 | Throughout either of the sequence of developments with increasing Rayleigh number described in Sections 22.5 and 22.6 , the temperature profile tends away from the linear form that occurs when the fluid is at rest and towards the form of Fig. 22.11 . |
| 8 | This is what happens : you start by wondering whether two people kiss and it leads away into the unknowable . |
| 9 | Eases on his cap and trudges away towards the out field . |
| 10 | Countries such as Italy which have neither strong governments nor strong oppositions are noted for the chronic instability of their political systems , and for the fact that power seeps away from the democratic institutions into the bureaucracy or , worse , into organised crime . |
| 11 | There is Ethel and her cello , at which she saws away to the halting accompaniment of Lou , the schoolgirl niece . |
| 12 | The two women in the middle are the problem ; here Keatley never really gets away from the stereotypical images of woman plus career ( Jackie ) and woman minus c ( Margaret . ) |
| 13 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 14 | In his balletts he often breaks away from the Mantuan composer 's genuinely dancelike and predominantly note-against-note style , keeping only the ‘ fa-la ’ refrain which is the hallmark of the balletto — but extending even that with great contrapuntal and rhythmic ingenuity . |
| 15 | If Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet is compared with Balanchine 's Ballet Imperial , it will be seen that Balanchine rarely breaks away from the classical technique as practised in petipa 's day when Tchaikovsky wrote the music . |
| 16 | This definition breaks away from the previous categorisations of handicap and attempts to introduce a subtler and a more relative concept . |
| 17 | As colour fades , so an immensity of scale is revealed where the inhospitable water stretches away to the forbidding height of the hills . |
| 18 | The emphasis , therefore , shifts away from the uneven development of class relations and towards elites within the state apparatus , seeing them as the key , relatively autonomous decision-makers . |
| 19 | The functional never gives away to the festive . |
| 20 | Andrew walks away from the receding back , carrying the newspaper and milk with hands that tighten with every step to show white knuckles erupt on red skin . |
| 21 | This approach moves away from the personal judgements of care givers towards an objective description of the present capacity of an elder to perform in certain physical , psychological and social ways . |
| 22 | This alternative model moves away from the conventional idea of a child with learning difficulties to one which recognises and builds on the child 's learning achievements . |
| 23 | Adrian Pilkington 's " Poetic Effects : A Relevance Theory Perspective " challenges the conventionalist position and moves away from the social relativity of the definition of literature . |
| 24 | It is not only the countries of the Community who are scaling down their military spending : as the USSR itself moves away from the military base of its economy , we should seek ways of working together over arms conversion . |
| 25 | This signal , we believe , is a diffusing chemical , a morphogen , which is released by the polarizing region , so the concentration is highest at the posterior margin and the concentration decreases away from the polarizing region , being lowest at the anterior margin . |
| 26 | DEC has added two X-Windows terminals to its VXT 2000 line : a new version of the low-end 15″ model does away with the separate cabinet and integrates all components into the monitor itself — that starts at $1,700 . |
| 27 | The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand . |
| 28 | Not only does this offer a fuel cycle that gives energetic charged particles — raising the hope of generating electricity without going through the heat/steam-raising cycle — but also it does away with the fast neutrons that can damage the materials of a fusion reactor and at the same time produce a radiation hazard for workers . |
| 29 | This move does away with the productive uncertainty which the concept of the unconscious can introduce into psychology . |
| 30 | Such a theory has the great merit that it does away with the old dichotomy between ‘ matter , ’ represented by particles of one-half-integer spin , and ‘ interactions , ’ represented by integer-spin particles . |