Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir .
2 Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion .
3 The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm .
4 Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said : ‘ An awful lot of money has been made out of this area .
5 The stomach muscles are made up of several muscle groups , the most important being the rectus abdominis and the external oblique .
6 These may include " black " which has a black body , " sooty " with a dull black body , " antennapedia " with forked antennae and " microcephalic " which has a small head , as if a piece has been bitten out of each side .
7 It is both the mother and baby who are born out of that moment ?
8 Young adult males are driven out of this group and form separate bachelor parties that must bide their time until they can steal young females and set up an oligarchy of their own .
9 Sexually mature males are driven out of this group once they grow big enough to constitute a threat to the dominant male ( although occasionally an ageing dominant male will allow a younger male to take over his harem and will be tolerated by his successor for a while ) .
10 This will then overcome this silly bigotry of the Labour Group in trying to ostracise the opted-out school in and the College , when this Charter is in place , we 'll be able to compare every facet of education across the district because the results will be published for all to see and these two schools will not be able to be frozen out of that exercise .
11 ‘ Now , these things can be exaggerated out of all proportion .
12 Unless agreed with CFSU , a pre-issuance review should be carried out of all valuation reports .
13 Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to .
14 Each activity will be made up of several episodes .
15 You do n't think we 'll be chucked out of this library for talking too loud do ya ?
16 I often please myself with anticipations of our return , picture to myself the joy and greetings when we meet , and I try to fancy the appearance of the dear children — they will be grown out of all knowledge . ’
17 If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party .
18 The directors could apprentice or hire out the children and other inmates , and the industrious poor could be rewarded out of any profits from their work , although no part of the money could be spent on liquor .
19 The men were hotching for action , but what response could be dragged out of those granite walls and that oak door ?
20 ( c ) Benefits The individual receives or is entitled to receive , at any time , any benefit provided or to be provided out of that income or out of monies which are or will be available for the purpose by reason of the effect or successive effects of the associated operations on that income and on any assets which directly or indirectly represent that income .
21 How Chant had longed then to return to the ether from where he 'd been summoned ; to shrug off the body which Sartori had congealed around him , and be gone out of this Dominion .
22 I know that there are views among the opposition groups about what should be cut out of this budget .
23 Our customers tend to be left out of these reports , but it must be said that they did part cheerfully with over 13,000 and that we enjoyed meeting them .
24 Another protein that appears to be left out of this picture is RasGRF , a mammalian Ras activator with a more restricted tissue distribution than the Sos proteins .
25 Witnesses and documents located there are required to be taken out of that country for production before the authorities of the United States or before persons acting with the backing of the courts of that country ; it must appear to be an attempt to give world-wide application to the procedural rules of the United States .
26 In the foundation 's view , arthritis should be taken out of that conglomerate and set up in a new and separate institute , which would bring the total number of institutes at NIH to 12 .
27 We would recommend that these should be taken out of such budgets . ’
28 Only a few words , and you can be taken out of this cell , fed , warmed , lodged in a better place , ’ he tempted softly .
29 We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences .
30 Iorwerth had taught him to ride , Morgan had been his idol in boyhood by reason of his prowess at wrestling , Meurig , unfree but irrepressible , could never be kept out of any fight though his only real duties with the army were as a baggage-servant .
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