Example sentences of "away from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not see the guard revise his aim , away from the gathered crowd . |
| 2 | While the fashion press continues to use a bourgeoise equation for good clothing — ‘ tasteful ’ , expensive fabric — the new designers ' use of ‘ cheap and nasty ’ fabrics and unorthodox technique takes the wearer even further away from the slick chic of the ‘ establishment ’ designers . |
| 3 | Much of this has been changed by the 1988 Code of Criminal Procedure , which attempts to move away from the inquisitorial system and to introduce adversarial elements into the criminal process . |
| 4 | Murray Johnstone , on the other hand , has moved away from the up-front commission structure , believing that it is more efficient for advisers to charge fees for their services . |
| 5 | He stood very still in the middle of the aisle five metres away from the bearded man 's gun . |
| 6 | Ace turned her head away from the uncovered corpse . |
| 7 | A radical approach to shared assessment , which emphasises the importance of getting to know and understand each other ; the identification of aims in terms of what people would like to see happening ; and a process of considering plans for action which recognises the existence of different perspectives , moves the focus away from the usual concern with the individual and how he/she should change , to focus instead on the role of other people and wider circumstances . |
| 8 | Their sharp , spiky pop songs , peopled with all sorts of weird and wonderful characters , are a breath of fresh air , and a world away from the usual guitar heavy U2ish or folksy influenced Irish offerings . |
| 9 | Climbers like to break away from the usual uniform of breeches and warm top , favouring instead old tracksuit bottoms and rancid T-shirts , but the scrambler usually likes to be well turned out . |
| 10 | Far away from the usual round of interviews for reasons of record promotion , he was etching his personality into the minds of the readers . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you 'd enjoy meeting some of the local people , away from the usual tourist traps . |
| 12 | Adam lived as far away from the parental home as was possible while still living in north London . |
| 13 | Of insect attack , that by bruchids of Scheelea zonensis ( Palmae ) in central America is greater , the nearer the mother plant and early survival of Virola surinamensis there is enhanced by being away from the parental crown , as seedlings closer to the bole suffer attack from weevils . |
| 14 | Every child must break away from the parental fold , and establish his own personal identity . |
| 15 | Here the men who streamed into the new ‘ self-improvement ’ associations ( Bildungsvereine ) in the 1860s — there were 1,000 such clubs in 1863 , no less than 2,000 in Bavaria alone by 1872 — rapidly drifted away from the middle-class liberalism of these bodies , though perhaps not sufficiently from the middle-class culture they inculcated . |
| 16 | Touching and massaging away from the genital area . |
| 17 | Kissing away from the genital area . |
| 18 | Or you might even have a home visit from your midwife to recheck your blood pressure away from the crowded scene of a busy antenatal clinic . |
| 19 | As the Citron began to climb away from the crowded rice paddies into the red-soiled rubber plantation region , Joseph studied the face of the driver in the rearview mirror , trying to guess his feelings . |
| 20 | She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind . |
| 21 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 22 | If the lithosphere of the back-arc zone has a component of motion away from the volcanic arc relative to the underlying asthenosphere the arc may be split apart . |
| 23 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 24 | A recasting of the whole system , away from the Beveridge-style insurance base to the payment of benefits as a right of citizenship , would enable age discrimination to be abolished through the removal of ‘ need ’ categories , deriving from ageist assumptions . |
| 25 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 26 | The constitution of the Dominion , which was to have a governor and council but no elected assembly , was a long step away from the normal pattern of colonial constitution-making , and showed how irritated Charles and James had become with elected parliaments and assemblies , and with disloyal Massachusetts Puritans , by the 1680s . |
| 27 | I would n't use RAMdrive on a machine with less than 8MB of RAM , though , since 4MB is about the absolute minimum you need to run Windows successfully , and the smartdrv and RAMdrive allocations have to be taken away from the overall amount . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're getting away from the immediate problem . |
| 29 | Housing for oil-related workers is considered to be a critical problem for the local administration : the suddenness of demand for housing has necessitated various policies constraining its dispersal , concentration and , most recently , its direction northwards away from the immediate vicinity of the airport . |
| 30 | During solution compaction , the area immediately adjacent to the stressed grain to grain contact is taken into solution and may be flushed away from the immediate area by pore fluid migration . |