Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposals for a worldwide carbon tax and the phasing out of coal-burning generators appear to have been ruled out . |
| 2 | He appears to have been ruled out although Eoin Jess WILL lead the attack despite Italian media suggestions that he 'll be left out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 5 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 6 | But no boy could fail to notice the hollows of his cheeks , which seemed to have been scooped out in deep , dark channels , or his eyes , which were ringed round with black , and bleary , and haunted . |
| 7 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 8 | But windows were reported to have been blown out in homes more than 1,000 yards away . |
| 9 | Whatever it is , it needs to have been thrashed out endlessly with the top leadership of the business and to be able to be expressed in a single , understandable , clear and unambiguous sentence . |
| 10 | The deaf children of the Molfetta Deaf School in Trani were proud to have been singled out for a visit by the Princess |
| 11 | ‘ I was very surprised to have been singled out for this honour . |
| 12 | The same batsman seemed to have been run out by bowler Lewis when 30 . |
| 13 | The Marxist-Leninist interpretation of 1917 , moreover , seems to Soviet historians to have been borne out by the whole sweep of the history of the USSR . |
| 14 | And our ideas about the energy crisis also seem to have been borne out — with enough new oil reserves discovered to allay fears of imminent exhaustion and with the nuclear energy debate becoming more and more an ideological issue . |
| 15 | But the fact that part of de Gaulle 's prediction seems , more than two decades later , to have been borne out by events is only a partial defence of his policies — unless one subscribes to the view of his critics that he was more interested in being vindicated by posterity than in achieving results in his lifetime . |
| 16 | A joint French-Greek research team 's claims to have developed technology which eliminates 90 per cent of particulates emitted by diesel bus engines appear to have been borne out in tests on 110 buses in Athens . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Everything was meant to have been thought out and planned , and woe betide any signs of undue excitement or stress . |
| 19 | Debates followed in parliament with the Unionists in full cry , for the Liberals seemed to have been caught out in a case of open corruption . |
| 20 | Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line . |
| 21 | Vital forensic evidence needed to convict up to 500 terrorist suspects is feared to have been wiped out . |
| 22 | There were several rooms , all in good condition , which seemed to have been rented out though I was aware that they remained my responsibility . |
| 23 | Old traces of Longhorn blood seem to have been bred out now . |
| 24 | A number are reported to have been smuggled out of Ireland during the period of the Viking depredations , and brought to safety in Welsh monasteries . |
| 25 | No investigation is known to have been carried out either by the Indian or Sri Lankan authorities . |
| 26 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 27 | A study of their history reveals a wonderfully varied past during which almost every imaginable trade and profession seems to have been carried out within their walls , from shoe-mender to motorcycle dealer . |
| 28 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 29 | The DUC condemned the sabotage , which was widely believed to have been carried out by militants from outside the local area . |
| 30 | Security forces are believed to have been involved in numerous killings this year in Silvan , Diyarbakir province , thought previously to have been carried out by Hizbullah . |