Example sentences of "be [vb pp] away by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 2 | During the day , a well-camouflaged animal may escape the eyes of a snake , but it will be given away by the halo of its infra-red radiation . |
| 3 | Martha and Ann were orphans , and were to be given away by the lord of the manor . |
| 4 | " It being represented to this meeting that part of the Church yard of Kilnaughtan , facing the South E : or the sea is likely to be carried away by the Blowing of Sand and that several Coffins have been exposed " the meeting appoints a Committee to obtain any estimate for banking . |
| 5 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 6 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 7 | I went along one night at 6 p.m. precisely , to be turned away by the dragon because ‘ there is no surgery to-night , as no patients have come ’ . |
| 8 | These would be pushed away by the radiation from the Sun , taking with them any payload attached to them . |
| 9 | For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked . |
| 10 | In order to escape from the situation , my two colleagues below the surface unhooked from the safety line only to be swept away by the current . |
| 11 | Because the pressures are always highest at the front the expansion is always fastest there , although the most rapidly expanding elements may be swept away by the flow . |
| 12 | He painted with the meticulous craft of the Elizabethan limner in a style derived from the elaborate concoctions of mannerist court portraiture ; a style soon to be swept away by the tide of the baroque brought to England from Flanders by Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck [ q.v . ] . |