Example sentences of "be [verb] away [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many goals have been given away with faulty back passes ? |
| 2 | That is certainly the case , but the Government are walking away from that fact by encouraging imports of coal to destroy the fabric of our communities . |
| 3 | She was about to replace it when she noticed that the satin lining in the bottom of the case had been torn away from one edge , and stitched back into place with large clumsy stitches . |
| 4 | I feel as if I 've been whisked away to another world , ’ she breathed , her face radiant . |
| 5 | Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea . |
| 6 | Especially seeing as we 're we 're moving away from the with the with the four to six progression for careers officers , we 're moving away from continued assessment post , part two . |
| 7 | In the two figures on the right in particular the earlier striations and hatchings have given way to more discreetly and subtly modelled planes delineating the component parts of the trunks and limbs of the figures ; these planes are angled away from each other along clearly defined ridges in some passages , but softly opened up into each other in others . |
| 8 | They need the rank and file of the working class , which , through trade union structures and traditions has been acclimatised away from mass action . |
| 9 | So we know that so far about fifty percent of our anthropogenic C O two has been locked away in this system in the ocean . |
| 10 | But as our studies continue , more and more concealed breaks become apparent , such as the remarkable situation in the jurassic limestones of western Sicily , where several stages are packed away into thin solution pipes in what otherwise look like unbroken limestone sequences ( figure 3.1 ) . |
| 11 | First , because the source and observer are moving away from each other the doppler effect causes an increase in wavelength . |
| 12 | ‘ We are moving away from conventional computer engineering and concentrating on how to get improved productivity from computers , ’ said Reg Key , director of ICL 's consultancy and training division . |
| 13 | Enterprise has been driven away by high business rates and high domestic rates . |
| 14 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 15 | It was not Selden , who had been running away from that hill . |
| 16 | Make a date with the BBC Good Food calendar , which we are giving away in next month 's issue . |
| 17 | Standards should not be hidden away for internal use only , but should be clearly displayed at the point of service delivery . |
| 18 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 19 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 20 | But are we allowing ourselves to be carried away by false vanity ? |
| 21 | Body can be divided into parts which can be moved away from each other ; space can not . |
| 22 | To add to its headaches , 500,000 people are expected to arrive today and four fifths of them will have to be turned away amid massive traffic jams precipitated by a railway strike in the area . |
| 23 | The first of these objections to the Baker — Hacker interpretation can be answered by saying that although the practice which constitutes knowing and following the rule for pain could be operated away from any community ( on a desert island ) if it could be set up , the problem is not in the operation but in the institution of the practice . |
| 24 | Phillipson summarises American research which indicates that elderly people may be turning away from informal care based on kinship towards formal professional support . |
| 25 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 26 | Alternatively , they can be moving away from each other , with gravity slowing down the velocity of the recession . |
| 27 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 28 | COMPANIES appear to be moving away from outright purchase of company cars towards contract hire , according to a survey by salary and benefit specialists Alan Jones & Associates . |
| 29 | Why let yourself be led away with that kind of scoundrel ? |
| 30 | Against a mobile enemy such as Bretonnian knights you must be careful of their charge — a unit of Goblins will be swept away in one turn if caught like this . |