Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques .
2 This year in itself , the single person has been done out of two pound ninety pence and er after the er older ones that 's four pound odd .
3 That state sector has been made up of nationalized industries , and of extensive welfare services provided on the basis of need , and not on the basis of the ability to pay .
4 Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said : ‘ An awful lot of money has been made out of this area .
5 The system has been born out of rapid expansion in recent years as the business has opened new centres and employed more people .
6 This technology is , in fact , ideologically charged ; any version of literacy practice has been constructed out of specific social conditions and in relation to specific political and economic structures , as I hope to demonstrate below .
7 Durham University Patrick Brodie , 21 , rescued by friends after suffering multiple injuries in a 40ft fall from a walkway into the River Wear in the city has been moved out of intensive care at Dryburn Hospital and was yesterday stable and satisfactory .
8 And an education official believes the case has been blown out of all proportion .
9 The road between Scourie and Kylesku has been changed out of all recognition .
10 They would fill the tanker from there and we go round the quarry filling the front machines , but erm they say at five or six thousand gallons has been emptied out of that er dump .
11 But while Pearce might be irreplaceable for Forest , United have learnt to live without Robson , whose likely replacement at Wembley is Neil Webb , the former Forest midfielder who has been left out of United 's last three games .
12 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 .
13 Dawn Allenby seemed annoyed too , though that was possibly because she 'd been cheated out of those extra moments in his arms .
14 When I consider the mover and seconder of the Loyal Address today , I can not escape the feeling that , while the right hon. Member for Worcester was in successive Tory Governments because of his cleverness , the hon. Member for Thanet , South may have been kept out of successive Tory Governments for exactly the same reason .
15 The earliest written version of Lex Salica seems to have been made up of sixty-five titles .
16 Jim had been blown out of this room as though he had never been .
17 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 .
18 This ignored the fact that many had been created out of poor arable land or even poorer scrub .
19 The Goths had been forced out of central Europe by Hun pressure from the east .
20 Drawers had been pulled out of military chests , left on the floor .
21 Some professional groups , especially general practitioners , felt that they had been left out of this planning process .
22 Somebody asked , a bit hesitantly , how you would define the Dark Ireland , and Dorrainge , who felt he had been left out of this conversation for too long , said it was rather difficult .
23 Our solicitors had prepared the necessary ‘ instruments ’ , and all Karen and I had to do was ‘ execute ’ them , but when we emerged into the mild sunshine of Beaumont Street twenty minutes later , my life had been changed out of all recognition .
24 A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small .
25 All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had .
26 on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its .
27 I 've been left out of previous games , so I just took the disappointment with me .
28 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 .
29 The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems .
30 Yet , like so many other Raj survivals , the marriage adverts have been mutated out of all recognition from their understated British originals .
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