Example sentences of "have been swept away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the old Stormont-based hegemony in the north has been swept away , destroyed by its own excesses in the half-century to 1972 — though the poisonous legacy of those years lingers on in terrorism . |
| 2 | People have died in such circumstances where a dog has leapt into the sea , encountered difficulties and then its owner has been swept away while trying to rescue their pet . |
| 3 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown , the normal hierarchy associated with production and support areas has been swept away , and replaced with teams and team leaders . |
| 4 | Every sign of humanity has been swept away . |
| 5 | Here it is , a breech at least a hundred yards long and the power station has been swept away . |
| 6 | Had it not been for the empty little bottle in the pocket of her skirt — which could so easily have been swept away by the waves — the fisherman 's description of the likely accident would have satisfied everyone . |
| 7 | Any chance of aid or succour from her brother-in-law , William Charles Titford , would have been swept away by his death in 1828 ; but two years earlier than that , Elizabeth 's name appears in the registers of Shoreditch Workhouse . |
| 8 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 9 | Otherwise you 'd have been swept away again . ’ |
| 10 | For others it implied that the centuries-old problems of poverty and inequality had been swept away in the tide of prosperity . |
| 11 | The front and one side remained , the rear and other side had been swept away along with half the roof . |
| 12 | The debris of Franca 's unhappy childhood had been swept away long ago . |
| 13 | Four hours later we came out to find that three inches of rain had fallen , creeks had burst their banks , cars had been swept away , and people were injured and homeless . |
| 14 | Now both had been swept away and under the new Act a debtor could only be adjudicated bankrupt on his creditor 's petition . |
| 15 | While the superstitious veneration of the saints had been swept away by the reformers , the worldly vanity of elaborate family memorials was permitted and grew ever more popular . |
| 16 | Some saw fascism as a means to restore an alleged utopian past of harmonious political , economic and social relationships which had been swept away by the war and replaced by the degenerative effects of the extension of the franchise in 1918 and the emergence of political democracy . |
| 17 | In the early eighteenth century Rudyerd was in business as a silk mercer in Ludgate Hill , London , when he was engaged by Captain John Lovel or Lovet , the lessee , to act as ‘ architect and surveyor ’ for a lighthouse on the Eddystone reef near Plymouth , to replace the one built by Henry Winstanley [ q.v. ] , which had been swept away by a storm in 1703 after only five years . |
| 18 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 19 | Instead of this , the impression was given by ministers that their previous doubts about the Maastricht Treaty had been swept away by the Danish vote . |
| 20 | This was perhaps what was in Temple 's mind when he wrote that ‘ whereas in communities governed by native institutions the white man , qua white man , is regarded with great respect , in those districts where the native administrations have been swept away he is regarded as a person of no very great significance ’ . |
| 21 | Reporting his progress by radio , Smith said : ‘ Up to 25,000ft the going is good , but above that the ropes left by previous expeditions have been swept away . |
| 22 | His ‘ melancholia ’ , with all its evocative associations for me , no longer exists as a diagnosis — it 's been swept away into the vast , featureless ocean of modern ‘ depression ’ . |