Example sentences of "have been [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the relationship between two variables disappears when a prior variable is controlled , the original effect has been explained away . |
| 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 | And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file . |
| 4 | The exhibition indicates that Tillyer 's work has been moving away from Hitchens and closer to American landscape-abstractionists , notably Helen Frankenthaler . |
| 5 | Half my body has been cut away by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 6 | The culprit is the G string slot , which has been cut away at too sharp an angle , leaving the string supported on a tiny knife-edge ; this slot will wear much faster than the others , which will eventually call for a premature nut replacement , or at least some fancy manoeuvring with superglue and baking soda . |
| 7 | ‘ What is absolutely clear one this verbiage has been cut away is that individual retailers ’ stance on Sunday trading is , in the vast majority of cases , determined by a cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage … |
| 8 | Leaving aside this subtle rearrangement and the fact that the intermediate lever has been done away with , many features of the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument are clearly taken from the Cristofori-Silbermann design ( compare illus.2,13 ) . |
| 9 | So we know that so far about fifty percent of our anthropogenic C O two has been locked away in this system in the ocean . |
| 10 | Anyone who has been locked away like this would understand . |
| 11 | works with writing group whose teacher has been called away ; |
| 12 | For example , most people will not mind waiting a few extra minutes in a hospital waiting room if they know that the doctor has been called away to deal with an emergency . |
| 13 | A very curly perm has been shaped away from the face |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We know the money has been frittered away through gross incompetence and mismanagement . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Every sign of humanity has been swept away . |
| 19 | Here it is , a breech at least a hundred yards long and the power station has been swept away . |
| 20 | If the three limbs are not satisfied the property which has been given away is referred to as " property subject to a reservation " ( Finance Act 1986 , s102(2) ) . |
| 21 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 22 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 23 | The dress has been packed away , the wedding album has finally found a resting place and the honeymoon has become a fond but distant memory . |
| 24 | In the sandy soils under General Ripper 's airbase , as in aquifers throughout the agricultural Europe , the ‘ time bomb ’ of nitrate pollution has been ticking away since the 1950s . |
| 25 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 26 | All the crap of jargon , all the crap of councilspeak , has been cleared away . |
| 27 | I have a look in the gutter to see if any fruit or stuff has been chucked away . |
| 28 | In France , a working group at AFUU — L'Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix et des Systemes Ouverts — has been beavering away doing some research on how it might be possible to get a single graphical user interface ( GUI ) standard going . |
| 29 | This is partly because the cadre of antiracism professionals which was created during the boom years of radicalism on the rates has lost its collective tongue : its political confidence has been drained away . |
| 30 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |