Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And then you 're going away for the weekend ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're getting away from the immediate problem . |
| 8 | When we 're facing away from the sun you are in ? |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So they 're running away from the police and then they get all this money . |
| 12 | After a moment , he said , ‘ They 're striking away from the river , and south . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So you really you are pulling away from the dangers there now are n't you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | NB : When you are flying away from the DF station the operator will still be giving you QDMS . |
| 23 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 24 | Devon had been romping away with the section , but by the beginning of August had seen their lead whittled away , with Oxfordshire emerging as a growing and serious threat to their supremacy , 20 points behind but with two matches in hand . |
| 25 | It is in the heart of Manchester , but for many years industry and commerce have been moving away from the city centre , increasing the risk that only a lifeless core will be left . |
| 26 | When we are facing away from the sun what ? |
| 27 | When we are facing away from the sun ? |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | All they are giving away about the composition is that it is a water based polymer . |
| 30 | 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 . |