Example sentences of "are [v-ing] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 2 | It is curious that these young Turks are turning away from the sportswear looks beloved of top American designers for a decade — but they are infusing fresh interest into the New York fashion scene . |
| 3 | With prices at their lowest level for 14 years , small farmers are turning away from the crop , even though it is often their only source of income and their governments ' only source of foreign exchange . |
| 4 | So you really you are pulling away from the dangers there now are n't you ? |
| 5 | Such are the difficulties that have been found when trying to scale up toy grammars that computational linguists are drifting away from the creation of demo-sized systems and aiming at larger systems . |
| 6 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |
| 7 | Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe . |
| 8 | But already we are moving away from the source of the poem — the real man on an actual road in Somerset — who obstinately refuses to turn into a symbol . |
| 9 | At the beginning of the 1990s when art practices are moving away from the collective and political , I hope they will find a way to develop her practice further , in their own right , towards the future . |
| 10 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 11 | NB : When you are flying away from the DF station the operator will still be giving you QDMS . |
| 12 | When we are facing away from the sun what ? |
| 13 | When we are facing away from the sun ? |
| 14 | ‘ We are getting away from the labour party for industrial workers , ’ says Walter Momper , the SPD mayor of Berlin and one of the new generation of leaders . |
| 15 | All they are giving away about the composition is that it is a water based polymer . |
| 16 | Crewe as a previous reply rightly said are running away with the 3rd division , so a 3–1 defeat is a good result considering the mauling some other Premiership clubs got from the likes of Peterborough and Stockport . |
| 17 | Ipswich Town are running away with the championship , but six teams are involved in the race for runners-up . |
| 18 | More immediately , at a stage of the season when Rangers are running away with the championship , there may be a reluctance to go public with an announcement confirming that the relegation issue is also a dead duck . |
| 19 | But just as the microprocessor and open software standards are gnawing away at the foundations of the mainframe market , so massively parallel machines are beginning to chip away at the monolithic vector machines — once the parallel software catches up with the hardware . |
| 20 | The buttresses of all grades are black and the gullies are trickling away into the valley streams . |