Example sentences of "chip away at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At press time Sun was still chipping away at the price of the Tsunami Classic , so named because Sun expects it to become the standard by which all others are judged .
2 The ‘ costs of increased variety ’ argument will lose much of its force , chipping away at the need for a complex form of activity-based costing as conceived by Kaplan .
3 In my case , this animal would have stood outside the House of Commons , chipping away at the chocolate with a microphone , while uttering the pregnant words , ‘ it always gets my vote ’ .
4 The thin end of the wedge is that this chips away at the core of what makes union unique : it is a game for all shapes and sizes .
5 Using the fork like a pick she chipped away at the soil .
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