Example sentences of "away from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Showbusiness gave the youngster a chance to escape into another world , away from the frustrations of an unsettled childhood . |
| 2 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
| 3 | Set an obstacle , such as a chair , a distance away from the teams . |
| 4 | Most , however , are reasonably quiet in operation and can be used in studio conditions provided that they are kept away from the microphones . |
| 5 | We move away from the Germans as the Brigadier is now pointing at some other unfortunate bastards . |
| 6 | We were n't alone in having such ideas ; many Swedes prefer this philosophy because it also gets you away from the Germans . |
| 7 | When the ceremony was over , Sabine slipped away from the congratulations and laughter , and the clicking cameras outside the church , and drove back to Les Hiboux . |
| 8 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 9 | The present infatuation with the Seventies no doubt represents in the most superficial way a turning away from the horrors of our time , which is perfectly understandable . |
| 10 | Until now they have claimed it is a world away from the horrors just five hours ' down the road in Miami — so chillingly portrayed in the TV series Miami Vice . |
| 11 | This puts a second frame round the graphics , spaced away from the handles by the desired amount . |
| 12 | Put your cat somewhere it feels safe , away from the removals scene , or arrange for a neighbour , friend or relative to look after it . |
| 13 | The title not only confirmed the centrality of the hippocampus to studies of animal learning , but was also symbolic of the conceptual shift amongst psychologists away from the crudities of behaviourism and simple associationism towards an understanding of animals , like humans , as cognitive organisms . |
| 14 | Two spectators jump in , seize his trembling body and carry it away from the dancers . |
| 15 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 16 | I think you 're just running away from the difficulties that that entails . |
| 17 | Just a table and a chair and a telephone that would n't be secure , and the room was two floors and the length of a ministry corridor away from the Operations Co-ordination Centre of the Counter-Terrorism section at police headquarters . |
| 18 | This would confirm the move away from the traditions of post-war local government with its large centralized service departments , towards rather more fragmented forms . |
| 19 | * Achieving cultures are cultures that have begun to break away from the traditions of the past , in order to develop and grow . |
| 20 | Caution will have to be the watch word , but caution must not be the excuse for shying away from the challenges of this changing continent . |
| 21 | Experienced Temple Fortune locals seem to prefer to peer away from the posters at the television set perched atop the soft drinks cooler . |
| 22 | The linguistic counterpart of this process is analysed as one of dialect diffuseness — a movement away from the norms of the Caipira dialect . |
| 23 | As Bortoni-Ricardo shows , integration scores are correlated with a linguistic movement away from the norms of the Caipira dialect . |
| 24 | Within seconds each man was twisting and skidding away from the attackers . |
| 25 | Out there , away from the Inspirals ' tour bubble , is a land of a thousand lakes and a million fir trees , where the people drive with the headlights on in full daylight , past ‘ Moose Crossing ’ warning signs , to restaurants where you can tuck into sautéed reindeer . |
| 26 | As it drew away from the Communists , the ILP leadership became more sympathetic to the Labour Party which was also criticizing the Popular Front for its inclusion of non-socialists . |
| 27 | On the weekend of May 11-12 a group of about 200 radical ecologists and feminists broke away from the Greens to form the Ecological Left/Alternative List . |
| 28 | ‘ I think we should keep walking inland , away from the coasts , ’ said Clare , as they finished eating . |
| 29 | The British position was simpler ; Russia was to be kept away from the Straits and Austria-Hungary was to ensure this , if possible . |
| 30 | The Centre for Policy Studies was only one of a series of institutions which now began to churn out papers , briefings , and a stream of serious young advisers in dark suits who saw it as their role to steer the party away from the errors of its past ways . |