Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] of the [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 | 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 . |
4 | She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt . |
5 | Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds . |
6 | Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
12 | And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | They hold debates on a wide variety of topics , some of which are squeezed out of the Commons programme through lack of time . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It is extraordinary how all that has been slung out of the window . ’ |
18 | ‘ People are fed up of the mayhem and death wreaked by young criminals . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight . |
21 | 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 ) . |
22 | A big issue has been made out of the racism allegations , which I think people will make up their own minds about , but no-one 's made a big issue out of the fact that a lot of people are getting ripped off here . ’ |
23 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
24 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
25 | She should n't be allowed to stay there if , how old is this girl that 's been chucked out of the house ? |
26 | And she 's been chucked out of the house ? |
27 | Although in his mid-eighties , he had only recently been written out of the curriculum by some crafty predecessor of mine . |
28 | On the quiet side of the bay , little coves have been scooped out of the shingle . |
29 | The upsurge in quarrying takes place against a background of increased poaching and harvesting of forest produce , while hundreds of people who had been moved out of the park in the past are now starting to return . |
30 | He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away . |