Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oystercatchers are rarely noted away from the coast , but have been recorded on occasions on flooded levels as well as at the reservoirs . |
| 2 | Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December . |
| 3 | Indeed there are many highly intelligent children who are completely uninterested in the kinds of questions set at O or A level in English , questions about the choice of words in the sonnets of Keats or Jane Austen 's power of characterization , who have been set to read these texts with a view to answering such questions , and who are perhaps turned away from reading for ever by being required to embark on a specialized and academic study of literary criticism for which they are totally unsuited by taste , temperament , or ability . |
| 4 | A motor extracts air through a replaceable filter and powders are gently drifted away from the operator . |
| 5 | Several of the plant species have extra-floral nectaries but almost all the plants can be found growing away from the ant nests and the ants can form nests without the plants so that , despite the apparent advantages to both plants and animals , the relationship is not obligatory , though Codonanthe spp. are not found away from the nests . |
| 6 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 7 | Although earnings prospects all over Europe are still excellent the balance has now been slightly tipped away from the equity markets . |
| 8 | Nils may be a good cook , but his time will be better spent away from the galley . |
| 9 | The blade should be reasonably extended away from the boat 's centreline to gain leverage . |
| 10 | The church seems to be slightly set away from the village , and is very elusive as you drive through , being only reached either through a farmyard or down a lane off the road to Wansford . |
| 11 | The curds could be pulled away from the edge of the vat , in the same way as a cooked Victoria sandwich can be lightly pulled away from the edge of a cake tin , and the curd could be cut in a straight line with a finger . |
| 12 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 13 | The irony is that the skins in trying to be ‘ authentic ’ have ended up reviving an idea of working class culture which is frozen at precisely the point when a ‘ real ’ , ‘ authentic ’ working class identity was being positively eaten away from outside . |
| 14 | Sabah , aged 28 , and his brother , ‘ Abd al-Karim , aged 21 , were both taken away from their home in al-Fahahil on 7 March by seven or eight men in masks and civilian clothes and one in military uniform . |
| 15 | A French couple found coupling in a London museum recently were simply sent away from the fascinated onlookers . |
| 16 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A was later to claim that Kent , Sussex , Essex and Surrey had been wrongfully forced away from the kindred of Ecgberht , son of Ealhmund , king of the West Saxons ( AS C A , s.a. 823 ) . |
| 17 | He is constantly swept away from objects he desires , to his irritation . |
| 18 | It 's one of those things that you always take for granted till it 's obviously taken away from you . |
| 19 | O. densa has fewer arm spines , 4–5 as opposed to 7–8 , the oral frame is not raised away from the ventral portion disk , there are no trifid spinelets amongst the rods of the disk as there commonly are in O. smitti and the arm spines do not form a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 20 | Free discussion about the quality of the work of the learner is also necessary , and is best done away from the bedside . |
| 21 | This part is usually turned away from the investigator . |
| 22 | In memory her face is always turned away from me . |
| 23 | Unlike the singer-songwriter creed , attention is always drawn away from the song to the figure of the person working at it : there 's a flagrant exhibitionism that forces us into the role of voyeur . |
| 24 | But already the symptoms which are inseparable from the growth of bureaucracy are there : the importance of the permanent officials grows , rules become more numerous , violent pronouncements rarer , negotiation more frequent , and power is gradually drawn away from the regions to the central government . |
| 25 | Their very simplicity contains the seeds of its own weakness , because once the intelligent fundamentalist begins to enter into a true dialogue with his faith , he is remorselessly swept away from the simple truths which once satisfied him . |
| 26 | The Christians good news is that guilt and shame that I have of such behaviour is actually taken away from me . |
| 27 | The trooper in attendance kept pace , but his head was mostly turned away from his charge while he studied the occasional stands of trees or searched the landscape for hidden folds from which an ambush might be mounted . |
| 28 | She was mostly turned away from him ; he could just see the curve of her cheek , the line of her nose , and as he watched she put her head down very slightly . |
| 29 | The square was gently raised away from the face . |
| 30 | A day was thus taken away from February and transferred to August . |