Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] of [art] [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 | John Prescott , transport spokesman , has largely been frozen out of the national campaign , which is surprising given his adept performance on BBC 's election call this week . |
| 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 | The Dutch master has been squeezed out of the multi-million pound Milan squad on several occasions this season ; not surprising , considering the club have six top ‘ foreigners ’ on their books . |
| 6 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 7 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |
| 8 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 9 | The garage was part of the stable block and had been made out of the old coach house . |
| 10 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 11 | Staff and patients have finally been moved out of a unique hospital ward . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had just heard in Helsinki her brother-in-law has been hauled out of the frozen harbour . |
| 14 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids . |
| 16 | Despite the success of the sport in Auckland , however , judo has been elbowed out of the next Commonwealth Games in Canada in 1994 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A rabbit has been pulled out of the political hat , and might be handed to Hong Kong . |
| 20 | TWO girls have been thrown out of a top nanny school for taking drugs . |
| 21 | Long ago it had been quarried out of a deep pit called Knamber Hole . |
| 22 | ‘ She did n't look like one of the village matriarchs — she was quite small — ; but she might have been quarried out of the local slate . |
| 23 | Ann Upton the returning officer for the East Hampshire constituency told the Herald on Thursday that the ballot box had been taken out of the small office and made freely accessible to voters — meanwhile our photographer discovered that it had been simply relocated in the forest . |
| 24 | This has been taken out of the local economy in Notts . |
| 25 | Having been forced out of the eastern fjords in endless rainswept misery we headed for Mývatn , Gođafoss and Akureyri , three attractions in the north of Iceland . |
| 26 | Her parents , William and Nellie Tanner , had been forced out of the terraced house in Page Street , the home they had brought the family up in , when her father 's employer George Galloway , who owned the house , decided he was going to make changes . |
| 27 | Indeed as Neuhaus has recognised ( 1986 ) it is precisely because religion has been forced out of the central corridors of power in America that the New Religious Right has managed to stride in with such urgency and rage . |
| 28 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 29 | Lagan Valley party deplores the fact that local Tories have been left out of the new regional Conservative structure . |
| 30 | There is always something delirious about language — the burgeoning , bubbling Remainder that has been left out of the dry official structure comes crashing through my best-formed sentences — so I can feel it speaking through me . |