Example sentences of "have been [verb] out for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 2 | ‘ This is a girl who has been crying out for help , ’ one aide said . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 4 | Routine Guthrie testing has been carried out for phenylketonuria since the mid-1970s and testing for hypothyroidism since the mid-'80s . |
| 5 | How very conceited to assume that , out of all the billions of billions of planets in the universe , our own little backwater of a world , in our own local backwater of a solar system , in our own local backwater of a galaxy , should have been singled out for life ? |
| 6 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 7 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 8 | As it had been hired out for stage work a few times and was n't perfect the selling price was thirty-five pounds . |
| 9 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 10 | The tapestries were in remarkably good condition when found but have been sent out for restoration several times this century and final work on the last two will be finished next June . |
| 11 | Draft specifications for general SVQs in this area have been sent out for consultation , and a seminar was held to discuss them at the end of October . |
| 12 | With a rat like Mahoney you can usually bet he 's been rubbed out for business reasons . |