Example sentences of "away from their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system , if extended to those staff who regularly spend periods away from their normal workplace , would reduce the workload on the telephonist , Library staff and others , and improve response time in answering enquiries . |
| 2 | For a period of six months in British Airways all personnel and training staff were taken away from their normal duties and assigned to the task of helping with the process of change . |
| 3 | In the build-up to the ground offensive , preparations were made that were consistent with an amphibious assault on the Kuwait coast to draw the Iraqis ' attention away from their right flank , the direction from which the main Allied thrust was eventually to come . |
| 4 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 5 | Those capitalists , who were predominantly of Chinese and Indian extraction , gradually grew in size and economic importance , and in doing so moved increasingly away from their traditional roles in Western dominated export and import sectors , and towards manufacturing , banking and commercial expansion in their own right . |
| 6 | Time will be spent on recognising the importance of leisure and recreation pursuits in a balanced life-style and students will be encouraged to move away from their traditional view of leisure and recreation pursuits and explore less obvious activities . |
| 7 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 8 | Perhaps that was why she did n't want to lunch with him alone , away from their usual theatre crowd . |
| 9 | Down on the river front of Old Chiswick , the firm of Thornycroft 's continued to be busily occupied with their boat building , and one of their employees , Mr. R. T. Smith , made an approach to his engineer employer , John Donaldson , who was a good Scottish Presbyterian with strong Christian principles , for a loan of five pounds in order to enable him ( R. T. Smith ) to start a coffee stall in Church Street , in an endeavour to keep some of the other employees away from their regular visits to the Lamb Tap Inn . |
| 10 | Lips tight , fists clenched , eyes narrow , breath held , back straight , stomach in , chest out , shoulders back , Steven Grout stamped away from the depot he had just been fired from , away from their stupid job and those awful people . |
| 11 | THE Private Greens League are one win away from their first IBA Under 25 inter-association championship . |
| 12 | He is getting on and is a mile away from their first team . |
| 13 | Aston Villa could be just a day away from their first trophy of a new season , they play Arsenal tonight at Wembley in the fourteen Maceeter tournament with the prospect of a final tomorrow against Samdoria or Rael Sociadad live on television . |
| 14 | Still doubtful , the embalmer beckoned his assistants away from their other tasks . |
| 15 | Ideal for students wishing to spend their time at a different location away from their fellow countrymen . |
| 16 | Their baby son , Liam , was born four months after the love-struck pair shocked friends and family by running away from their close-knit parish . |
| 17 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 18 | The media were going to enormous lengths to lure ‘ the people ’ away from their revolutionary destiny into the gaudy sideshows of consumerism . |
| 19 | Angrily but resigned , I stamped away from their bland assurances . |
| 20 | Then in the nineteenth century some of the more adventurous men seized the new opportunities to make wealth in an urban environment or to tear themselves away from their ancestral roots to start life anew thousands of miles away . |
| 21 | Ten single decker buses currently in service in the county are just a few months away from their 20th birthdays and there are still three 1973-registered double deckers trundling around Durham . |
| 22 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |
| 23 | Thus the people were scattered far away from their original home , and bitterness and a capacity for battle entered their souls . |
| 24 | There are many examples of companies which have developed right away from their original business and yet still remain proud names . |
| 25 | But after 100 generations of EVOLUTION , the biomorphs can be anything up to 100 mutational steps away from their original ancestor . |
| 26 | Ex- Sounds writer Dave McCullouch : ‘ I think The Smiths have moved so far away from their original ideas . |
| 27 | Miller considered that ‘ local effects seem to move about one tenth of local voters away from their national preferences and towards ‘ less political ’ candidates … . |
| 28 | Some butterflies and moths have evolved false heads at the rear ends of their bodies , deflecting the attacks of birds away from their vital organs . |
| 29 | This meant that they had often moved to their present jobs away from their previous connections of kin and friends . |
| 30 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |