Example sentences of "away from the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
| 2 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 3 | Video is a good medium with which to move them away from the beginner 's preoccupation with individual words to an attempt to follow the general drift of a message . |
| 4 | ‘ It was as we were coming away from the assassin 's apartment . |
| 5 | Out there , away from the Inspirals ' tour bubble , is a land of a thousand lakes and a million fir trees , where the people drive with the headlights on in full daylight , past ‘ Moose Crossing ’ warning signs , to restaurants where you can tuck into sautéed reindeer . |
| 6 | As though the heat of the liquid burning her lips reminded her where she was , she looked away from the cat 's cradle and made her eyes focus on her guest . |
| 7 | Last year the general assembly decided nem con without demur on the advice of the assembly council that the Board of Social Responsibility should move away from the church 's office in George Street . |
| 8 | It is that the coin was indeed a perfectly ordinary cause of something , which thing was not a thousand miles away from the bar 's coming out . |
| 9 | He was reliever to feel a slight tug as the parachute eventually opened ; it was bitter cold but fortunately he was being blown away from the capital 's fires , and after drifting for a time , hit the ground ‘ like a wet sack ’ . |
| 10 | They have little control over their body temperature , and away from the sun 's heat they become cool and lethargic . |
| 11 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 12 | I could not move away from the child 's bed . |
| 13 | The adverbs here and there are often thought of as simple contrasts on a proximal/distal dimension , stretching away from the speaker 's location , as in : ( 72 ) Bring that here and take this there But this is only sometimes so , for although there basically means " distal from speaker 's location at CT " , it can also be used to mean " proximal to addressee at RT " . |
| 14 | As a first approximation , we may note that ( 81 ) He 's coming seems to gloss as " he is moving towards the speaker 's location at CT " , while ( 82 ) He 's going glosses as " he is moving away from the speaker 's location at CT " . |
| 15 | STUDENTS on a part-time MSc computer course to start next year at Kingston Polytechnic will get their own microcomputers so that they can work away from the polytechnic 's classrooms . |
| 16 | In such transactions , trades negotiated away from the exchange 's central pricing system are turned into on-exchange trades . |
| 17 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 18 | and er I said to her do you miss London ? , and she said well she does for the theatre and that because they were only a short tube ride away from the West from the West End theatre 's and she said there 's more on in Poole here than there is in Bournemouth in terms of plays and |
| 19 | Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials . |
| 20 | Flavia walked away from the Fourniers ' house seeing the next stage of her course . |
| 21 | The swing was so wild that it unbalanced Sharpe , but it also terrified the second Dragoon who swerved frantically away from the blade 's hissing reach . |
| 22 | Approximately four metres away from the driver 's head position is a large white screen ( 1.5 metres high by 1.7 metres wide ) . |
| 23 | Although early white settlers thought these were evil dances and that the gans were devils , in fact the purpose of the ceremonies was to drive evil spirits away from the tribe 's vicinity . |
| 24 | She followed the boy to a house set back in a palm-lined road , which was light years away from the urchin 's poverty-stricken background . |
| 25 | It 's come away from the zip er er I do n't know whether it 's er |
| 26 | The downfall of Mrs Thatcher , the arrival of John Major at 10 Downing Street and the Gulf War took the spotlight away from the Group 's activities for a few months . |
| 27 | Sales agent Lindsay Wright was driving to the village supermarket with his wife Sally and sons Daniel , 10 , and Thomas , 7 , when he spotted the thief roaring away from the jeweller 's shop . |
| 28 | One minute of observation away from the Earth 's atmosphere revealed more than has ever been known before about that well-studied galaxy 's infrared emission . |
| 29 | Brighter and more extensive clouds send more of the sun 's heat away from the earth 's surface , adding to the albedo effect . |
| 30 | A bid to reduce bills for rural householders who live away from the district 's three main cemeteries , by making them pay less for burial services , was narrowly defeated . |