Example sentences of "[vb -s] away [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you 've done them , people expect them to happen again and that takes away from a stable environment . |
| 2 | The strings here play a melodic line including the major 3rd of E7 ( G£ ) , while the bass gets away with a low G natural ( as it is only a sixteenth note long and not in an exposed position ! ) . |
| 3 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 4 | The old eight-valve , four-cylinder 115 bhp engine still retains a quiet refinement , revs willingly and pulls away with a clean pick-up . |
| 5 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 6 | This adventurous and stylish design uses classical columns as supports with hooped timber arches to provide a real felling of movement as it sweeps away in a gentle curve . |
| 7 | I know she walks away with a hundred thousand dollars from each of those but money is not everything . |
| 8 | ( One might argue against the concept of ‘ right-minded persons ’ , which moves away from a statistical concept such as ‘ most people ’ or ‘ the ordinary citizen ’ and seems to seek a moral plane which is ‘ right-minded ’ , a question-begging approach in this context . ) |
| 9 | Once it has been formed at a mid-oceanic ridge new oceanic lithosphere subsides as it moves away from a spreading centre and becomes cooler , thicker and more dense ( see Section 17.6.3 ) . |
| 10 | These sharp increases will contrast with below-inflation rent rises of 95 pence a week in about 156 local authority areas , as the Government for the first time moves away from a single national rents policy for the 4.5 million council tenants in England . |
| 11 | If the adventurers have wedged open the door at the bottom of the stairs , the mucus pours away into a magical nothingness over the landing area . |
| 12 | A nervous mother , children in tow , scurries away with a jumbo size package of Pampers . |
| 13 | The gearbox is operated via a push-pull selector which does away with a conventional gate . |