Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say that they were demand led , except perhaps in their respective " manias " when a number must be viewed as having been undertaken ahead of a demand . |
| 2 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 3 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 4 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 5 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |
| 6 | Clearly the Order was prepared in some haste , but it can not be brushed aside as having been made out of an excess of caution . |
| 7 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 8 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 9 | Even though the reason for permitting the employees to continue work pending the appeals may have been born out of a sense of leniency , the proper course of action would have been to suspend the employees pending the hearing of the appeals . |
| 10 | THE VERY first line of Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? - ‘ What a dump ! ’ — is spoken by the play 's feminine protagonist in a parody of the classic Bette Davis manner : an ( imaginary ) cigarette held imperiously at eye-level , eyes blazing like the headlamps of an automobile , bee-sting lips enunciating each word ( including the ‘ a ’ ) for absolutely maximum effect , almost as if they had been snipped out of a newspaper headline by a writer of anonymous letters . |
| 11 | She has even been snipped out of a photograph taken after her wedding . |
| 12 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |
| 13 | The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects . |
| 14 | Sir Ian is a former president of the Cambridge Union , whose career has been woven out of a mixture of Conservative politics , economics and technology . |
| 15 | If he 'd been thrown out of a window . ’ |
| 16 | She had also claimed that he took long liquid lunches and had even been thrown out of a wine bar for fondling another girl . |
| 17 | ‘ No site has totally disappeared , but great bites have been taken out of a selection of them . ’ |
| 18 | Back on the path I came to the " chasm " said by many geologists to be a collapsed cave system and suggested by others more recently to have been carved out of a weakness in the limestone by the raging melting ice waters of a glacier . |
| 19 | There was a mound of earth that had evidently been dug out of a ditch . |
| 20 | ‘ Father says four more have been dug out of a drift and they are still alive . ’ |