Example sentences of "been [vb pp] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 2 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 3 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 4 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 5 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 6 | The work has been carried out through a rolling programme covering 19 occupational areas and the results are published in the official journal of the EC . |
| 7 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 8 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 9 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 10 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 11 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 12 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 13 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |
| 14 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 15 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 16 | This work has been carried out by a small group of volunteers ( three to four persons ) . |
| 17 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 18 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 19 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |
| 20 | Contrary to speculation , the house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925 , but remains where it was designed to stand , the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence , a permanent record of a way of life between the wars . |
| 21 | Staff and patients have finally been moved out of a unique hospital ward . |
| 22 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 23 | No doubt half the population of Paris could have been wiped out by a typhoid epidemic in 1788 , and perhaps the king would not then have been sent to the guillotine . |
| 24 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 25 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 26 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 27 | It had been born out of a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong in February 1930 at a time which there were in fact three communist parties in Vietnam . |
| 28 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 29 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 30 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |