Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal .
2 ‘ They are let out of a greyhound-style trap and can cover more than 100 metres in a matter of seconds when they get a whiff of food , ’ says Michael , 52 .
3 John Prescott , transport spokesman , has largely been frozen out of the national campaign , which is surprising given his adept performance on BBC 's election call this week .
4 VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed .
5 FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 .
6 Institutions , such as the Cabinet , are sucked out of the larger political and societal context that gives them meaning , and they are regarded as having a life and importance all of their own .
7 The Dutch master has been squeezed out of the multi-million pound Milan squad on several occasions this season ; not surprising , considering the club have six top ‘ foreigners ’ on their books .
8 Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether .
9 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 .
10 And both of these contradictions of capitalism are built out of a developing incompatibility of bourgeoisie and civil society .
11 Hewlett-Packard Co last week introduced the latest swat of HP 9000 Series 800 business servers — thirteen uni-processor machines whose top ends are built out of the new 7100 PA-RISC chip .
12 A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components :
13 The garage was part of the stable block and had been made out of the old coach house .
14 However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts .
15 Staff and patients have finally been moved out of a unique hospital ward .
16 Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer .
17 Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride .
18 Pigs are our chief prey item — half the meat in the human diet , worldwide , is pork , That has to mean that those of us who are n't Jews , Moslems or vegetarians are made up of a large proportion of protein that arrived by way of the animal we most like to sneer at — not to mention mistreat , in the most abominable ways .
19 Both body and clothing are made up of the black and the white — uncomplicated but striking — and her complexion shines like gold ( 3236 – 41 ; 3246 ; 3255 – 6 ) .
20 Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments .
21 The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses .
22 The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 .
23 She had just heard in Helsinki her brother-in-law has been hauled out of the frozen harbour .
24 Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 .
25 Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids .
26 Despite the success of the sport in Auckland , however , judo has been elbowed out of the next Commonwealth Games in Canada in 1994 .
27 Such models are born out of a patriarchal ideology of creativity and greatness , incorporating the concept of an active , ( male ) , subject/artist holding the position of power and control through his representation of a passive , object/woman .
28 However the players are getting out of the losing habit .
29 It had been born out of a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong in February 1930 at a time which there were in fact three communist parties in Vietnam .
30 Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him .
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