Example sentences of "[be] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 2 | Martha and Ann were orphans , and were to be given away by the lord of the manor . |
| 3 | During the day , a well-camouflaged animal may escape the eyes of a snake , but it will be given away by the halo of its infra-red radiation . |
| 4 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 5 | These are the recommended minimum space and heating standards proposed by the Parker Morris Committee in 1961 , which were required to be incorporated in public housing design from January 1969 — yet another gain made in the early 1960s to be whittled away under the current government . |
| 6 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 7 | A first attack of herpes in the adult , sexually active woman can often go undiagnosed because the primary lesions may be hidden away in the folds of the labia and close examination is needed to identify the ulceration . |
| 8 | She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace . |
| 9 | A novel feature is that the display and key pad is detachable and can be placed away from the weighing area . |
| 10 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 11 | The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point . |
| 12 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 13 | The treatment plan is not equipped to deal effectively with waste of such high chemical toxicity , and so much of it is passed out in the Yellow Creek to be carried away into the Cumberland River , with the result that the creek has become severely polluted . |
| 14 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
| 15 | " It being represented to this meeting that part of the Church yard of Kilnaughtan , facing the South E : or the sea is likely to be carried away by the Blowing of Sand and that several Coffins have been exposed " the meeting appoints a Committee to obtain any estimate for banking . |
| 16 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 17 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 18 | They claimed that the Western states hoped to use this scheme ‘ to establish a new regional bloc , which would be torn away from the mainstream of non-alignment ’ . |
| 19 | Criticism may devote itself to an actual performance ; analysis , both musical and dramatic , can be done away from the theatre , by an examination of the score . |
| 20 | If colleges of nursing can not supply these , then nurse education ought to be transferred away from the colleges and onto polytechnics and universities . |
| 21 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 22 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
| 23 | I went along one night at 6 p.m. precisely , to be turned away by the dragon because ‘ there is no surgery to-night , as no patients have come ’ . |
| 24 | I realise this is not to everyone 's taste , but I did not expect to be turned away from the bar . |
| 25 | These would be pushed away by the radiation from the Sun , taking with them any payload attached to them . |
| 26 | Trees of a pendulous habit are for streams and riversides where their fallen leaves can be whisked away by the rains of autumn and winter . |
| 27 | ‘ It needs to be drawn away from the snobs and the elitist crowd . |
| 28 | For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked . |
| 29 | The circle of stone within this can be peeled away like the skin from a grape , revealing a blood-red shaft below . |
| 30 | When this happens , they should be peeled away from the root stock , even to the point of there being no leaves at all , and as the roots become established , longer , paler leaves will begin to grow in their place . |