Example sentences of "be [verb] away [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 2 | FOUR different countries are hidden away in the damp jungles of Panama . |
| 3 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 4 | All these ‘ taints ’ have been boiled away in the good old-fashioned aggro of Oi . |
| 5 | When not in use these are tucked away in the Split boxes at the top right and bottom left of the screen and appear as black bars above and to the left of the arrows at the ends of the two scroll bars . |
| 6 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 7 | More than ten thousand new age travellers and rave enthusiasts converged on the site of a disused quarry near the cotswold village of Lechlade ; many had been turned away from an aborted gathering at hungerford , swelling the numbers even more . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're getting away from the immediate problem . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 10 | There are four samey levels to battle through , and as soon as you 've waded your way through the current one you 're whipped away to the next . |
| 11 | ‘ What is important now is to collect as much information as possible before the sites retreat still further — and before any are washed away in the next big storm . ’ |
| 12 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 13 | ‘ I am going away with a nice feeling . |
| 14 | Any doubts about the wisdom of combining the worlds of Shakespearean tragedy and forensic psychiatry appear to have been blasted away by the recent performances of King Lear , Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet in the special hospital by actors from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 15 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |
| 16 | Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe . |
| 17 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 18 | The antique musical instruments had been stowed away in the glass-fronted cabinets . |
| 19 | ‘ It really was n't so very difficult , though your precious Shannon seems to believe her sordid little secrets are locked away in a safe somewhere . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We are getting away from the labour party for industrial workers , ’ says Walter Momper , the SPD mayor of Berlin and one of the new generation of leaders . |
| 21 | The fishing nets and the postcards were no longer on display , and the woollens and the charming useless pottery had been packed away for the coming winter and the new season to follow-then they were out of the village , passing through a scattering of newer and less substantial houses and following the narrow lakeside road to Langstone . |
| 22 | They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi . |
| 23 | Crewe as a previous reply rightly said are running away with the 3rd division , so a 3–1 defeat is a good result considering the mauling some other Premiership clubs got from the likes of Peterborough and Stockport . |
| 24 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 25 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 26 | According to Sampson , many other features of transformational grammar can be explained away in a similar fashion once one adopts this evolutionary perspective . |
| 27 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 28 | These are the recommended minimum space and heating standards proposed by the Parker Morris Committee in 1961 , which were required to be incorporated in public housing design from January 1969 — yet another gain made in the early 1960s to be whittled away under the current government . |
| 29 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 30 | She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace . |