Example sentences of "[noun sg] away at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laurence Tribe , Professor of Law at Harvard University , said he thought the session would continue to chip away at the broad right to abortion . |
| 2 | But just as the microprocessor and open software standards are gnawing away at the foundations of the mainframe market , so massively parallel machines are beginning to chip away at the monolithic vector machines — once the parallel software catches up with the hardware . |
| 3 | Even a dominant firm will face rivals seeking to find a window of opportunity to chip away at the dominant position . |
| 4 | It had begun to chip away at the common sense attribution of ‘ race ’ problems simply to a black presence . |
| 5 | The United States could , and did , also claim that it actually required a greater surplus than this so that it could begin to chip away at the huge ‘ overhang ’ of dollar liabilities with a view to restoring convertibility of the dollar to the SDR ( special drawing rights ) once confidence had been restored . |