Example sentences of "away from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , while the Western world has seen a major shift , for a variety of reasons , in preferred manager 's styles away from autocracy towards a belief in more participative , reduced dependency styles in which individuals are treated as adults and empowered to act , there are other parts of the world where this would be considered inappropriate because dominance and dependency are effective styles . |
| 2 | There has been a tendency to move away from prohibitions on corporate practice — removed in the cases of architects , surveyors and accountants . |
| 3 | It was very dark as Newman drove along the road away from Walberswick on their way back to London . |
| 4 | ‘ With any luck he 'll stay away from Nogai for a while . |
| 5 | Incomes are between $ 1,636 and $ 5,500 , with the economy shifting clearly away from agriculture towards a significant level of industrialisation . |
| 6 | Other seem to be trying to assuage a guilt known only to themselves , and a few are out to keep Ali a player , a lure to those who might want to use his name in business ; though the marketplace turns away from billboards in decline . |
| 7 | He was away from Valencia for a total of nine months and in that time two dramatic events took place . |
| 8 | More importantly there is also now a distinct movement away from employability as the motive for partnership towards that of citizenship . |
| 9 | Arran is the most southerly of the Inner Hebridean islands , 15 miles away from Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast . |
| 10 | In doing so , they replace debate with assertion , and pull an essay away from patterns of reasoned argument . |
| 11 | Although the White Paper claims the government has " a long standing policy of keeping roads away from Sites of Special Scientific Interest " , a Friends of the Earth critique points out that this " rhetoric is not born out when the implications of the Department of Transport roads programme are examined " . |
| 12 | It aims to lure readers away from titles like Bauer 's Take A Break and G&J 's Best . |
| 13 | So she has tipped the system a little away from collective to presidential government ’ . |
| 14 | Her catwalk looks and figure were swathed in motorcycle overalls as she whizzed away from speculation about her relationship with Princess Diana 's friend James Gilbey . |
| 15 | ’ It is far enough away from London for nobody to know anything , and the Heathertons will give you some standing . |
| 16 | Watching her , Ross asked smoothly , ‘ Is it going to be a problem for you , staying away from London for more than a few days ? ’ |
| 17 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 19 | However , there has been some decentralization of office employment since the mid-1960s , with a redistribution away from London to the outer-metropolitan areas . |
| 20 | There was no dramatic increase in the total volume of shipping using British ports over the first half of the eighteenth century , but there was a relative shift away from London to provincial ports . |
| 21 | Tighter security and several breakthroughs by the police , including the interception of a bomb intended for Britain 's biggest office building , at Canary Wharf , seemed to have forced the IRA away from London towards provincial shopping centres and industrial sites . |
| 22 | The reality was that provincial reformers generally took the ideological initiative away from London on this important point . |
| 23 | The coffin furniture industry moved away from London during the early nineteenth century , transferring itself to Birmingham . |
| 24 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |
| 25 | It 's not that you 're deliberately staying away from London by any chance is it ? ’ |
| 26 | The case of RE S ( A Minor ) was concerned essentially with the opposition of the parents of one child to comprehensive schools ; they kept the boy , aged 11 , away from school for 18 months before the Court of Appeal confirmed that the child should be taken into care so that he could be educated . |
| 27 | Early in 1921 , a slight chill and a few spots on my chest meant that I was away from school for a couple of days . |
| 28 | Even the dunce might come away from school with a phrase or two — — and the learned have sometimes gone to extraordinary lengths to get him into and out of their systems . |
| 29 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 30 | And senior teachers , especially heads , have the additional option of the flight into bureaucracy , or into the development of a national reputation for something or other , that enables them to spend considerable time away from school at important meetings . |