Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oystercatchers are rarely noted away from the coast , but have been recorded on occasions on flooded levels as well as at the reservoirs . |
| 2 | Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December . |
| 3 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 4 | ‘ Had been suddenly called away to the funeral of a close relative ? |
| 5 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 6 | A motor extracts air through a replaceable filter and powders are gently drifted away from the operator . |
| 7 | When an insect moults , the dorsal arms of the tentorium are largely dissolved away by the moulting fluid , the tentorium splits medially , much of the central body is dissolved and the remainder is pulled out as four separate pieces , one from each tentorial pit ( Sharplin , 1965 ) . |
| 8 | The corpse of a zebra , under the camera 's necessarily impassive gaze ( some viewers are queasier ) , is reduced almost to a skeleton as skin and then flesh are progressively stripped away by the processes of nature . |
| 9 | American and allied aircraft are already pounding away at the fixed and mobile missile launchers concealed in the desert of south-western Iraq . |
| 10 | Since they are not in contact with the ground they are not worn away in the usual fashion . |
| 11 | Several of the plant species have extra-floral nectaries but almost all the plants can be found growing away from the ant nests and the ants can form nests without the plants so that , despite the apparent advantages to both plants and animals , the relationship is not obligatory , though Codonanthe spp. are not found away from the nests . |
| 12 | We are not running away from the moral and social justification for introducing that minimum wage , because it is an outrage in our society that no such thing exists . |
| 13 | Peter Ward agrees : ‘ People are not walking away from the car . |
| 14 | I mean , th th they 're just moving away from the issue , because it it 's using a psychoanalytic stories . |
| 15 | I think you 're just running away from the difficulties that that entails . |
| 16 | But in the process , they 're actually slipping away from the traditional law and order discourse . |
| 17 | Supposing that the result of the investigation is satisfactory , and the purchase is completed , a subsequent purchaser must again go through the whole process ; the results of each investigation are practically thrown away for the future . |
| 18 | Although earnings prospects all over Europe are still excellent the balance has now been slightly tipped away from the equity markets . |
| 19 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 20 | In fact the Champenois are now moving away from the use of boues in favour of cendres-noires , but apparently this is not due to concern over the cadmium problem , it is because the boues is now more expensive than mining lignite deposits , due to the high price being paid by refuse-fuelled energy plants . |
| 21 | Low-fat spreads — only 15 short years after their appearance — are now striding away with the sales . |
| 22 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 23 | Nils may be a good cook , but his time will be better spent away from the galley . |
| 24 | I 'm finally walking away from the house . |
| 25 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 26 | The blade should be reasonably extended away from the boat 's centreline to gain leverage . |
| 27 | While the ambulance waited , it had to be carefully put away in the cupboard , as she had never in all her life left things draining by the sink . |
| 28 | The church seems to be slightly set away from the village , and is very elusive as you drive through , being only reached either through a farmyard or down a lane off the road to Wansford . |
| 29 | You appear to be almost running away from the — the dastardly spot where it happened . ’ |
| 30 | The curds could be pulled away from the edge of the vat , in the same way as a cooked Victoria sandwich can be lightly pulled away from the edge of a cake tin , and the curd could be cut in a straight line with a finger . |