Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] away as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profitability of successful innovations has , however , typically been competed away as the product becomes a simple standardised product or " commodity " . |
| 2 | Sylvia would be acknowledged to be Burkett 's daughter , she would perform some small chores , but chiefly be explained away as evidence of Hope 's goodness of heart in giving his ‘ man 's ’ daughter the chance of a change of air . |
| 3 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |
| 4 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 5 | And to be turned away as well ! |
| 6 | The stone within can be peeled away as before — it feels rubbery and soft . |
| 7 | Each assembly of models may itself be stored away as yet another model of a higher order . |
| 8 | The cottage they bought 38 years ago for £4,500 will be swept away as the last unspoilt corner of the village becomes an estate of 150 homes . |
| 9 | He saved much that had been thrown away as rubbish , and would otherwise have perished without trace . |
| 10 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 11 | The company also made records for the ‘ World-echo ’ and ‘ Siemens ’ labels , and they were given away as Christmas presents in giant Christmas crackers made by Mead & Fields Ltd . |
| 12 | Certainly , attempts to read the poem at a wholly symbolic level with the violence being explained away as allegorical representations of abstract moral conflicts ignore the great deal of interest the poem shows in history , particularly Spenser 's contemporary history . |
| 13 | More sinister changelings became channels for daemons which walked the land in those host bodies , twisting and melting their anatomy into devilish monstrosities with scales and horns , claws and feelers — until the possessed bodies finally fell apart , until the vestiges of corrupted mind were sucked away as spirit-meat for those parasites from outside of normality . |
| 14 | They were turned away as eight fire engines brought firefighters to tackle the blaze at St Anselm and Cecilia church in Holborn , London . |
| 15 | In 1842 the youngest employee at the mine was a girl aged six , yet numbers were turned away as being too young ! |
| 16 | They are preparing a new bid but meanwhile homeless men are already being turned away as staff have been told to run down the unit ready for closure on March 31 . |
| 17 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 18 | Today , cynics would say that a building contract never has the chance of being put away as disputes start from the moment it comes into operation . |
| 19 | It is , however , more likely that he had accompanied the king to Nottingham and had then , like the Woodvilles , been sent away as the news grew more threatening . |
| 20 | It is , however , more likely that he had accompanied the king to Nottingham and had then , like the Woodvilles , been sent away as the news grew more threatening . |
| 21 | In a photoionization process , on the other hand , any energy from the incoming photon over and above that needed to ionize the molecule is carried away as kinetic energy of the electron ejected from the molecule ; conservation of linear momentum is generally accomplished by recoil of the ion formed . |
| 22 | Tara is whisked away as the operation begins . |
| 23 | Now everything in computers is stored away as , er numbers and a certain set of numbers represent all the different characters . |
| 24 | Police stand guard , not to keep people out but to ensure nothing is taken away as investigators sift through secret files , looking for evidence of official misdeeds . |
| 25 | Dust was washed away as the rain continued to pelt down . |
| 26 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |
| 27 | Eventually the horse was led away as wholly useless and intractable . |
| 28 | ‘ Not if he was taken away as soon as he was born . |