Example sentences of "being [vb pp] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Smugglers ' Kitchen , above , is being given away because its owner can not sell it . |
| 2 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 3 | The keychain Powerlock , worth £5 , is being given away free of charge with each purchase of 5m/16ft , 8m/26ft and 10m/33ft Powerlock tapes . |
| 4 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 5 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Catholic worship continued in many great houses ; Sir Thomas Leedes at Thorne House , Steyning , was only one of a number who kept a priest 's hole against the chance of being given away by an informer . |
| 7 | The first set of the final saw both players looking to find their footing , with little being given away . |
| 8 | Difficult to prove at this stage when so many clam up but I have a distinct feeling that it was not only coupons that were being given away . |
| 9 | By 1913–14 , over £25,000 was being given away in this manner and in return the Central Office agents were able to ensure the appointment of suitable constituency agents and the choice of good candidate The outlay constituted only about a tenth of the whole of the local parties " expenditure , but a much higher proportion of the expenditure of the backward parties most in need of reform . |
| 10 | I am sure , however , that the idea of the entire SBG being given away or sold to some form of socialised ownership would not be too popular in that quarter . |
| 11 | And owning two British cars is quite good at a time when our motor industry is being given away to the Japanese , along with assorted golf courses . |
| 12 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 13 | It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster — and there used to be a large car park there . |
| 14 | Consequently herbs were simply not part of the garden scene , being tucked away in an odd corner of the vegetable garden , or grown half-heartedly in pots or window-boxes , where they became aphid-ridden and dusty . |
| 15 | One by one , Israel 's reasons for declining to go to a peace conference are being whittled away . |
| 16 | Coupled to that the er , sort of the statutory protection which has been in existence for er , workers for many years in some cases is , is being whittled away . |
| 17 | Joy Francis reveals some SSDs have severe reservations about how their funding is being whittled away |
| 18 | Years of unfavourable comment , of poor gold prices and worse fundamentals are being explained away . |
| 19 | Certainly , attempts to read the poem at a wholly symbolic level with the violence being explained away as allegorical representations of abstract moral conflicts ignore the great deal of interest the poem shows in history , particularly Spenser 's contemporary history . |
| 20 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 21 | They are rounded and undulating puddinglike shapes covered by a thick layer of clay , all the sharp features being smoothed away by time . |
| 22 | Seven years later , remedial works were still being carried out ; the raised flood-banks set far too close to the watercourse were being eroded away ; the stability of the downstream bridge was threatened ; and the real cost to the public purse of what was a relatively small scheme originally has yet to be clearly counted . |
| 23 | As sad as I am at being wrenched away from the telly , I am led to the bar . |
| 24 | Each kieve has a false bottom made up of interlocking slotted plates which prevent the mash being sucked away when the sweet worts are run off . |
| 25 | From Raymond Williams I learnt the political and moral consequences and obligations of being educated away from the life you were born into . |
| 26 | ‘ You think I 'm being carried away by enthusiasm . ’ |
| 27 | Under duress from external events , she practised collective Cabinet government in something approaching the traditional form , though David Howell , at that time Secretary of State for Transport , cautions against being carried away by the collective theme : |
| 28 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 29 | Everybody in the district came out to watch the coffin being carried away . |
| 30 | Rose was critical of Romilly for being carried away by ‘ heat and popular prejudice ’ ; Romilly himself linked his denunciation of the barbarities of the slave trade with speaking on behalf of the wishes of ‘ the people of England ’ . |