Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] 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 Half my body has been cut away by the surgeon 's knife .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 …
7 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 ) .
8 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 .
9 Anyone who has been locked away like this would understand .
10 works with writing group whose teacher has been called away ;
11 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 .
12 A very curly perm has been shaped away from the face
13 He said : ‘ We know the money has been frittered away through gross incompetence and mismanagement .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Every sign of humanity has been swept away .
18 Here it is , a breech at least a hundred yards long and the power station has been swept away .
19 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) ) .
20 Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million .
21 Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million .
22 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 .
23 All the crap of jargon , all the crap of councilspeak , has been cleared away .
24 I have a look in the gutter to see if any fruit or stuff has been chucked away .
25 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 .
26 With cereal-based foods , fibre value depends to a large degree on how much has been stripped away in the milling and refining processes .
27 A piece of wall that is clean and firm and decent even when the paper has been stripped away from it ! ’
28 Everything has been stripped away .
29 ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home .
30 I think that Englishness , for all that we pull it to bits , had a certain important moral structure , which has been eaten away by unchecked competition , an underground civil war breaking our roots .
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