Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rowland 's offer has been dismissed out of hand by Brent Walker and unless the bond holders , owed £102m in all , agree to the restructuring plan involving BW 's 47 bankers it would appear that the directors will have no other alternative but to put the company into receivership . |
| 2 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
| 3 | it is clear justice has already been meted out to you . |
| 4 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 5 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 6 | Hence the suggestion in [ 30 ] , but not in [ 23 ] , that the speaker feels that the disappearance of his childhood has no explanation , that he has been tricked out of his childhood . |
| 7 | A 93 year old woman has been tricked out of her life savings and pension book . |
| 8 | Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ At this hour I imagine she 's fast asleep in bed — unless , like me , she 's been ripped out of it by some hooligan ! ’ |
| 12 | She said electrical sockets had been ripped out of walls . |
| 13 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 14 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 15 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 16 | Her sense of its deliberate concealment was overwhelmingly strong-it had been placed out of sight , but in a place where its owner could easily put his hand on it . |
| 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 | Compromise had , as he put it , been crushed out of existence . |
| 19 | She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt . |
| 20 | But if Hardy 's Virgilianism had been pointed out to Pound , this would not have counted in Hardy 's favour . |
| 21 | The islands had been pointed out to her , Capri and Procida and the ghost of an outline of Ischia . |
| 22 | In orthodox psychoanalysis , after the repressions of pre-genital and genital sexuality had been pointed out to the analysand , the choice was then either to sublimate these impulses or to reject them rationally . |
| 23 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 24 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 25 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
| 26 | He could hardly go empty-handed , and the benefits of the move had been pointed out to him often . |
| 27 | It has been pointed out to us that our report might have been understood to reflect on Mr Hancock , who was chairman of Aldershot until June 1991 . |
| 28 | It has already been pointed out above how Intasun had joined with Ramada to manage its new London hotel interests . |
| 29 | It has been pointed out above that historically the law of rape was exclusively concerned with the protection of virginity . |
| 30 | As has been pointed out in Chapter Two , an integrated education programme should be based on the views of all the people participating in the various educational processes , but the final success of a given course depends , to a large extent , on the motivation of the students . |