Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 2 | A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms . |
| 3 | That is to say that they were demand led , except perhaps in their respective " manias " when a number must be viewed as having been undertaken ahead of a demand . |
| 4 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 5 | She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt . |
| 6 | Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds . |
| 7 | The picture is described as having been formed out of a series of anxious revisions which incorporate all that has preceded them so that there are glimpses of ‘ buried entities ’ to enliven gaps and edges . |
| 8 | Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated . |
| 9 | Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all . |
| 10 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 11 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 12 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 13 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 14 | I am reminded here of the book on chaos already mentioned in the Preface ( Gleick , 1987 ) : it describes how turbulence can be created from a stable physical state . |
| 15 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 16 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 17 | And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year . |
| 18 | Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make . |
| 19 | They hold debates on a wide variety of topics , some of which are squeezed out of the Commons programme through lack of time . |
| 20 | Cornelia Knight has been lifted out of the category of femininity in which woman is famed for her ‘ beauty ’ , itself an effect of class ( food , clothes , health ) and an attempt is being made , using the most canonised resources of western art to imag(in)e for us a combination of femininity and intellectuality . |
| 21 | As it was , he had been lifted out of the void in which he had barely existed , on to a plane that was real — he underlined it triumphantly . |
| 22 | It is extraordinary how all that has been slung out of the window . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ People are fed up of the mayhem and death wreaked by young criminals . |
| 24 | This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities . |
| 25 | Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs . |
| 26 | PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight . |
| 27 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |
| 28 | Subsection ( 7 ) deals with cases where a deposit has been made out of a clients ' account or the like . |
| 29 | Clearly the Order was prepared in some haste , but it can not be brushed aside as having been made out of an excess of caution . |
| 30 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |