Example sentences of "away from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that the supporting leg is twisted so that your hips face 120° away from a forward-facing position . |
| 2 | Once you 've done them , people expect them to happen again and that takes away from a stable environment . |
| 3 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |
| 4 | He was muttering as he elbowed the nurse away from a malfunctioning VDU . |
| 5 | He was surprised to find , for example , that men who make their living out of reporting news and gossip should go away from a private lunch with him and the Princess and talk about it . |
| 6 | Wheelchair basketball team , the Milton Keynes aces were just 2 points away from a European Cup final in Rotterdam . |
| 7 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 8 | My personal hope is that we shall move away from a formalised dichotonomy of university and non-university institutions , and that there will be a less obvious division : two groups of educational organisations with parity of esteem in the public mind . |
| 9 | But she does not , she says , shy away from a wider public . |
| 10 | So , all in all , Uzzell said he felt quite reassured by the results — ‘ with the shift away from a hardware-oriented industry towards an emphasis on software , services and global networking , integrators who understand business issues have a vital role to play in the industry ’ . |
| 11 | Niall manoeuvred a particularly tight bend which had Lindsey gripping the edges of her seat as they seemed only inches away from a sheer drop . |
| 12 | As two likeable gangsters running away from a vicious killer and the crack-selling Triads , Coltrane and Idle hide in a convent , where , inevitably , they find themselves in 101 dodgy situations . |
| 13 | She urged us to order supper straight away from a painted board which said : |
| 14 | Whilst many local authorities in Scotland appear to be rolling forward the present DSS rates , we are keen to move away from a flat-rate fee which bears little relation to the intensity of service ( and costs incurred ) in meeting the needs of different people . |
| 15 | In turn the later reptiles could diversify on land when they could lay eggs away from a watery environment . |
| 16 | At a level slightly higher than their heads , and several yards within the cordon , this raw soil fell away from a dark hole like the mouth of a deep , narrow cave , large enough , perhaps , to admit a small child . |
| 17 | not unhappy at staying away from a western business man , even though he might be a temporary guest of the State ; after all , they were permanent guests and who knew but … . |
| 18 | For them , the shift required , and in part even achieved , was theological rather than administrative : the Council represented a decisive , if still partial , move away from a one-sided theology which had prevailed in the Roman communion across the Middle Ages , the Counter Reformation and ultramontanism . |
| 19 | He was , after all , proposing to jerk up and down on top of a naked woman not more than three or four strides away from a sleeping child , her child . |
| 20 | Like slipping away from a sleeping embrace , silently shutting the door behind one , tiptoeing off in the grey light of dawn — a stranger again . |
| 21 | It seems likely , however , that there was some relative shift away from a traditional leisure preference over the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | The movement away from a tall hierarchy to a flat hierarchy , a matrix model or a team-based structure will always be artificial if the infrastructure of pay , delegation and management roles is not amended . |
| 23 | An attempted coup in August was frustrated by the timorous behaviour of the Abuna , who stayed away from a crucial meeting . |
| 24 | As we saw in Chapter 1 , later Marxist explanations ( e.g. Apple 1982 ) move away from a deterministic model towards a looser one , which emphasizes hegemony and cultural resistance . |
| 25 | It was necessary to get away from a beer-hall style of singing these works . |
| 26 | If he wanted to keep his horse away from a certain mare he had only to rub some of the liquid on the stallion 's bridle or on the mare to ensure that the horse would not go near her . |
| 27 | Have you ever tried to take a bone away from a strange dog ? |
| 28 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 29 | But he had n't , of course ; he had just pleaded with her to stay with him , which was a world away from a total commitment . |
| 30 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |