Example sentences of "away from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which is in the process of a major expansion drive aimed at moving away from its traditional freezer centre image , made pre-tax profits of £30.1m in the six months to July 3 from £24.22m previously . |
| 2 | On the contrary , there is much to suggest that , in this election , Labour moved too far away from its traditional base ; that its attempts at reassuring those outside its ‘ natural ’ core of supporters meant it did too little to mobilise support among those who would benefit from its policies . |
| 3 | Tanabe was the author of a recent policy review which was designed to steer the party away from its traditional position of pacifism ( including opposition to the country 's Self Defence Force on the grounds that its existence was unconstitutional ) and international neutrality . |
| 4 | A package of new loans made public last week reveals that the nation will move away from its traditional hunting ground of French-speaking Africa , where it has always had a science presence , and towards English-speaking and Latin American nations and the Far East . |
| 5 | Just at the moment when the establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic were talking about substantial cuts in military spending , when the role of the hawkish political leaders was being eclipsed , when the United States seemed to be floating away from its international role , and new self-confident Europe seemed to be on the verge of creation , Iraq invaded Kuwait . |
| 6 | The test between compass orientation and true navigation is to move an animal experimentally away from its normal tracks . |
| 7 | The UK government has announced plans to encourage cycling , in what is seen as something of a shift of policy away from its market-oriented attitude to transport . |
| 8 | ‘ Raindown ’ again impresses because of the newly-found POD focus , its guitars taking time to breathe and plan their next assault , while Craig 's voice breaks away from its usual comparisons and finds its own piece of sky to lark about in . |
| 9 | Since WWF 's change to its present name from World Wildlife Fund it has , to quote a staffer in a rival pressure group , ‘ been trying to get away from its cuddly animal image ’ . |
| 10 | Before the sea can effect any further erosion at the base of the cliff it will have to reduce the cliff debris to such a size that it can be transported away from its protecting position at the base of the cliff . |
| 11 | Mr Cristiani suspended ties between the two countries in the wake of the incident and threatened to boycott tomorrow 's summit meeting unless it was moved away from its planned Managua venue . |
| 12 | The stretch pulls the bone away from its perfect-fit socket — maybe just a millimetre . |
| 13 | Suppose the smooth ball of bone had been held away from its snug socket just too long to glide easily back into place . |
| 14 | The only possible way in which a government might try to use its ability to affect aggregate demand , in order to influence the level of aggregate output , would be to introduce random movements in its policies and hence random movements in aggregate demand which , as we have shown above , would produce deviations of aggregate output away from its natural level . |
| 15 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 16 | But while the gap between the filmmakers and the critical culture could seem an unbridgeable chasm , there were people with feet in both camps who were discussing how to wrest British cinema away from its dual dependence on the stage and American models . |
| 17 | Two huge eggs , greenish-brown like the sedge , with a matt surface mottled like moss , lay in a shallow depression on the very edge of the loch , with a distinct sloping runway leading to the water , so that when alarmed the bird could slide invisibly off the eggs into a deep dive , to surface many yards away from its well-camouflaged home . |
| 18 | I walked up from his left and I could see where the canvas of his left trainer was coming away from its rubber base . |
| 19 | You can not get away from its vertical rise . |
| 20 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 21 | Because of the pressure of space , I can not enter into the arguments about whether Buddhism is a theistic religion , and how far it has moved away from its Hindu parent religion . |
| 22 | Increasingly it is turning away from its relative isolation and facing towards the rest of Europe , a move symbolized by its accession to the European Economic Community on 1 January 1986 ( and in quite another sense by its debates concerning its membership of the NATO alliance ) . |
| 23 | The programme marked an attempt to widen the SPD 's appeal away from its working-class bed-rock . |
| 24 | As Britain 's trading emphasis shifts steadily away from its old dominions and towards the continent of Europe , the Humber ports are booming while those on the Mersey stagnate . |
| 25 | ICI is now just one small step away from its giant demerger . |
| 26 | The internal relations of the multiple ‘ voices ’ in Brooke-Rose 's parodies are considerably more complex than in the examples Bakhtin analyses ; though their ‘ orientations ’ are not always directly opposed , they nevertheless succeed in deflecting the text away from its nominal object and making the reader aware of the devices they use . |
| 27 | Australia , on the other hand , has moved rapidly away from its original location on the edge of Pangaea and it has the lowest mean elevation of the major continents . |
| 28 | Hundreds of privately owned aircraft at Tamiami Airport were blown over and on top of each other , a parked DC–6 disappeared completely and was found over a mile away from its tie-down point on the Airport . |
| 29 | Metre , a linear , literary artefact — and a mental abstraction — has the power to " tilt " language-material away from its underlying phonology . |
| 30 | Not only was Liz looking forward to her new life in the United States , but also to living well away from her future mother-in-law . |