Example sentences of "be [verb] away [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You can even scan for viruses that would normally be missed by a standard scanner because it would have been hidden away in an archive file .
2 The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight .
3 FOUR different countries are hidden away in the damp jungles of Panama .
4 Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack , said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo .
5 Yet more paradoxically , in a book where the mystery has , so to speak , been given away from the start there still has to be " fair play " .
6 Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything .
7 All these ‘ taints ’ have been boiled away in the good old-fashioned aggro of Oi .
8 By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam .
9 Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines .
10 Foldaway slippers for the flight are tucked away in a holdall with disposable nappies and sick tablets .
11 Tiny baskets of cherries are tucked away in the display , an idea popular in Victorian times .
12 When not in use these are tucked away in the Split boxes at the top right and bottom left of the screen and appear as black bars above and to the left of the arrows at the ends of the two scroll bars .
13 With cereal-based foods , fibre value depends to a large degree on how much has been stripped away in the milling and refining processes .
14 The artwork and mission tallies had been stripped away by the end of September .
15 Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard .
16 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 .
17 Members of the group known as JADE , who come from the UK and Japan as well as Germany , have analysed the way in which momentum and energy are carried away from the collision by particles in the jets ( DESY preprint 82–086 ) .
18 Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process .
19 Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need .
20 The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it .
21 Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory .
22 The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied .
23 The gap in the paper where it has been torn away from the seal is a desirable human touch rather than a blemish .
24 The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes .
25 Roughly how many kilometres width of coal seams have been eroded away between the Lancashire and Yorkshire coalfields ?
26 But the fact that a usually narrow portion of beach is preserved is not an argument against modern erosion by the sea unless there is not even a minor cliff at present high tide level , as there is no means of telling h , ow wide a strip of raised beach has been eroded away by the sea .
27 Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible .
28 More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence .
29 ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’
30 But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit .
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