Example sentences of "be [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 This is very much less certain when the operations are carried out by the state or by non-resident financial institutions or investors seeking to rearrange their affairs advantageously , particularly in the UK where forestry receives substantial fiscal incentives .
5 Efficiency audits have no real private sector counterpart since monopoly references , though they also are carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , are more limited in scope .
6 Unlike users of reference services or online services , where search negotiations are carried out by the librarian or intermediary , users have had to know what they wanted .
7 Independent inspections are carried out by the B.S.I. who send in experts unannounced to carry out checks .
8 The chairman and deputy chairman of the Panel are appointed by the Governor of the Bank of England but the Panel 's day-to-day functions are carried out by the Director General and his executive staff who are seconded from the Bank of England and various organisations within the City of London .
9 Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse .
10 Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse .
11 The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker .
12 Stray capacitances to earth from P' 1 and P' 2 are shorted out by the primary of the detector transformer at balance .
13 The Members of the smaller parties complain that they are squeezed out by the front-benches whatever happens .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 A reconnaissance stream sediment survey has been carried out by the MRP over much of the orefield ( MRP 5 ) .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 ( 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 .
22 In Rome the work has been carried out by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro .
23 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 ] .
24 Any surplus runners are balloted out by the Jockey Club and their owners receive back their entry money .
25 The boy 's eyes had been drawn out by the Soul Eater and it gave a dry , evil chuckle of triumph .
26 Much of the vegetation on which the animals depend has been wiped out by the drought .
27 A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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