Example sentences of "[be] [verb] away from the " in BNC.

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1 Yet more paradoxically , in a book where the mystery has , so to speak , been given away from the start there still has to be " fair play " .
2 By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam .
3 He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin .
4 Members of the group known as JADE , who come from the UK and Japan as well as Germany , have analysed the way in which momentum and energy are carried away from the collision by particles in the jets ( DESY preprint 82–086 ) .
5 The gap in the paper where it has been torn away from the seal is a desirable human touch rather than a blemish .
6 The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes .
7 A very curly perm has been shaped away from the face
8 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 .
9 These refugees have been moved away from the border to facilitate military operations and now must endure life on the barren and wind-swept interior plateau .
10 Ageing machinery that opens or teases wool , a ‘ fearnought ’ , has also been moved away from the blend bins and a new one inserted at an earlier stage of production .
11 He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night .
12 You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ?
13 The type of person who goes on this holiday to destinations for example want somewhere unusual perhaps to India , is more likely to be an alocentric person cos they 're getting away from the crowds .
14 ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject .
15 ‘ We 're getting away from the immediate problem .
16 When we 're facing away from the sun you are in ?
17 ‘ We 're moving away from the concept of a spreadsheet being something an individual uses , in keeping with our philosophy of making people work together , rather than in isolation , ’ says Mr Ingram .
18 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 .
19 So they 're running away from the police and then they get all this money .
20 After a moment , he said , ‘ They 're striking away from the river , and south .
21 It is curious that these young Turks are turning away from the sportswear looks beloved of top American designers for a decade — but they are infusing fresh interest into the New York fashion scene .
22 With prices at their lowest level for 14 years , small farmers are turning away from the crop , even though it is often their only source of income and their governments ' only source of foreign exchange .
23 So you really you are pulling away from the dangers there now are n't you ?
24 There were other things he would not tell her either , such as the reason he had been called away from the restaurant .
25 Such are the difficulties that have been found when trying to scale up toy grammars that computational linguists are drifting away from the creation of demo-sized systems and aiming at larger systems .
26 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 .
27 Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe .
28 But already we are moving away from the source of the poem — the real man on an actual road in Somerset — who obstinately refuses to turn into a symbol .
29 At the beginning of the 1990s when art practices are moving away from the collective and political , I hope they will find a way to develop her practice further , in their own right , towards the future .
30 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 .
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