Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some exercises they perform sitting on chairs or using them for support , but floor exercises have been out of the question . |
| 2 | Hence , the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases have been out of the mainstream of public health . |
| 3 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Pickles have been out of step with consumers ’ changing eating patterns in recent years , ’ says Hind . |
| 5 | The official factory view is that you can not but as the vehicles have been out of production for thirty years , testing by the factory has not been carried out . |
| 6 | Also , the American and Japanese economies have been out of kilter . |
| 7 | However , the Prime Minister , Petre Roman , admitted that the miners at times had been out of control and had committed violence against innocent people , although he supported their mobilization to aid the government . |
| 8 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 9 | Others had been out of business for a while now . |
| 10 | And one effect of the recession has been , I 've got to say , that a lot of the old that er house-builders have operated on , which are good for selling , which sites will sell well , etcetera a lot of those rules have been out of the window . |
| 11 | Chemicals has been ahead of the legislators , with 60 people already trained as manual handling assessors after completing a course devised with the help of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |