Example sentences of "away [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As the Community shifted away in the 1960s from whatever supranational bias it possessed , this binding role of the Court as , as it were , the ‘ guardian ’ of the Communities became much more important , both before and after the enlargements of the organisation in the 1970s and 1980s . |
2 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
3 | The grain of truth in the myth of the British administrator dispensing justice impervious to the affection of the natives is to be found in this period of the history of British India , of which James Fitzjames Stephen is perhaps the representative figure , when a maturing bureaucracy was moving away from a personal to an institutional sense of fairness . |
4 | There are also dangers in suggesting that writers such as John Locke influenced attitudes , rather than merely reflecting changing attitudes , away from a punitive to a more liberal approach to children . |
5 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
6 | They tolerate most soils so long as they are well drained and do not lie wet in winter and would prefer a sheltered position away from the worst of the winter 's cold winds . |
7 | She must not let that happen again , she must not , and with Dr Neil looking at her so sharply — and why was that ? — she was just able to turn her thoughts away from the unthinkable into whose pit she had just fallen . |
8 | At the end of the hospital treatment , they went away to the Caribbean on holiday , by an airplane that belonged to a director of Simon 's firm . |
9 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |