Example sentences of "away to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seal , too far away to be identified with certainty but probably a grey , peers myopically and is gone . |
| 2 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 3 | His only potential rival — William Dick of Edinburgh — was too far away to be effective . |
| 4 | Some live too far away to be closely involved in the day-to-day happenings of the younger generation , but visits to Granny and Grandpa , accompanied by the family or as special guests on their own , can be important highlights in a child 's life . |
| 5 | People would give him fleeces to take away to be finished off , perhaps coloured , at his mill . |
| 6 | The love of God , the war with the Devil , and many of the earlier incarnational theories of atonement ( which we will see in a moment ) fell away to be replaced by a story of God 's wrath and its appeasement by Christ 's death . |
| 7 | Well , I did n't hate anybody , but the change of running away to be a lady actress was every bit as good as a rest . |
| 8 | To my disappointment I realized that the nearest group was in Manchester , which was too far away to be useful . |
| 9 | Quite what this means in engineering terms I do n't know , but as far as the knitter is concerned , it means that if you buy the fine gauge lace carriage separately from your machine , the machine and carriage will probably have to be sent away to be tuned . |
| 10 | The Mutawas informed the physician that the new mother would be removed that day and taken away to be stoned for her crime against God . |
| 11 | Emily felt a flash of irritation , she had insisted that the shoemaker 's daughter take the boots away to be soled and heeled and at the same time she 'd had a fitting for some new slippers . |
| 12 | Cairo is too far away to be anything more than just a stake in the ground against IBM/Apple Computer Inc while the hoopla surrounding Windows For Workgroups is meant to distract attention away from an increasingly late NT . |
| 13 | Q I sent three films of holiday snaps away to be processed but only one came back . |
| 14 | Babies were often sent away to be nursed in rural parishes where they were ill fed , overcrowded , and quieted with opiates ( see Fildes 1988 ) . |
| 15 | After Tepilit was taken away to be tried , they never saw him again . |
| 16 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 17 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 18 | They had to go away to be analysed , and I went back to court and ended up getting a £150 fine or seven days in prison — I paid the fine . |
| 19 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 20 | He could see figures emerging from the lifeboat hatch , but he was too far away to be able to identify faces . |
| 21 | As to the identity of the nude , Charlotte was just too far away to be absolutely certain . |
| 22 | ‘ No point in her staying away to be tactful and give us time with Terry now this fellow 's here , ’ he said to Helen . |
| 23 | The oil floated to the surface and was skimmed away to be used later as a food dip . |
| 24 | These were swept away to be replaced by lamb Massaman and sesame king prawns . |
| 25 | Through the Service , an initial supply of sheets is discreetly provided and thereafter a fresh supply is brought on a regular basis to each home , and the used sheets are taken away to be laundered . |
| 26 | Once the firing was completed the clinker was broken out and carted away to be ground . |
| 27 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 28 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 29 | The law says dealers should recover ninety six percent floats away to be breathed by all and sundry . |
| 30 | They had all gone away to be professionally stripped . |