Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] out by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up .
2 Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession .
3 Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line .
4 In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer .
5 Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force .
6 A reconnaissance stream sediment survey has been carried out by the MRP over much of the orefield ( MRP 5 ) .
7 Perhaps the most sustained research into speech recognition has been carried out by the IBM speech group which started work on the production of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system in 1972 .
8 The ground will be the first all-grassed cricketing venue in Spain , and both the installation of an irrigation system and the seeding of the site have been carried out by the members themselves .
9 The groundwork had been carried out by the Southampton Special Unit and Vigilant and Venturous had been deployed to cover the approaches to the Solent and Poole Harbour .
10 I can not prove that but I do not think that the tests which have been carried out by the County Council refute that possibility .
11 ( 10 ) If the property is leasehold : ( a ) please confirm that the seller has complied with all the covenants in the lease ; ( b ) does the seller know whether any items of substantial expenditure for decoration , maintenance or repair have been carried out by the lessors recently but not yet charged to tenants , or are any such contemplated in the near future ? ( 11 ) Is the seller aware of any overriding interest under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ? ( 12 ) Please confirm : ( a ) that all gas and electrical installations are the seller 's absolute property and are included in the purchase price ; ( b ) that the electric light installations down to the bulb holders will be left intact ; ( c ) that all furniture , furnishings and fittings not included in the sale and all rubbish will be removed before completion .
12 In Rome the work has been carried out by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro .
13 The moves were the first steps in a longer-term support package for the former Soviet republics , estimated at US$24,000 million , which had been mapped out by the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38888 ] .
14 The boy 's eyes had been drawn out by the Soul Eater and it gave a dry , evil chuckle of triumph .
15 Much of the vegetation on which the animals depend has been wiped out by the drought .
16 A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud .
17 Suggestions for extension work should have been thought out by the publishers , also follow-up assignments and how the software might be fitted into further schemes of work or related to other subject areas .
18 His loneliness had recently been underlined by the fact that Ramsay MacLure , having been kicked out by the painter and critic Robin Ironside , had moved in with Vaughan , forming with him a steady relationship that caused Minton to talk of finding his own house .
19 But he had never seen Tara ; he had been abandoned at birth , he had been flung out by the King , who would have none of his Queen 's bastard wolfson at his Court .
20 The Trades Union Congress had called the strike in order to support the coal miners who had been locked out by the coal owners , who were attempting to impose wage reductions upon them .
21 The other point I would make is the further that the new settlement is from York itself , then the greater would be the dependency upon the motor car , this has been born out by the paper that has been submitted by York City Council in table one where one can see that within the urban area within the O R R the travel to work by car is forty six point four percent , travel to work in the Greater York area at the moment is sixty seven point five percent , further than that I do believe it would be even greater .
22 This may sound utopian , but it has been borne out by the experience of existing telecottages .
23 William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) .
24 The firm 's stand has been borne out by the earnings figures published by Fortune : for the calendar year 1987 , Korn/Ferry 's recruiting fees reached $64.6m. worldwide , of which $45.2m. was generated in the USA .
25 The construction of an appropriate regulatory framework is extremely complex and this has been borne out by the US experience .
26 We always knew there were many first-class journalists in the region and this has been borne out by the contributions . ’
27 The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away .
28 Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach .
29 Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs .
30 ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) .
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