Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] of [noun] " 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 She said electrical sockets had been ripped out of walls .
4 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 .
5 Compromise had , as he put it , been crushed out of existence .
6 People who 've been let out of jail as well .
7 At last he said , with a helpless shrug , ‘ I feel I 've been let out of prison . ’
8 But you get quite a lot of these erm I suppose they 're trying to promote what they 're say selling you are , you have been picked out of Nottingham
9 His coach had been parked out of sight while his white saddle horse had been tethered to a post at the roadside so that the passing soldiers would think their Emperor was riding to war instead of being carried in upholstered comfort .
10 Hi , there , ’ he was trying the role for size , ‘ your telephone 's been reported out of order .
11 It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation .
12 The contention is that today the margins have been squeezed out of PC sales .
13 But , and it 's a big but , what the enthusiastic driver would once have interpreted as an enjoyable adjustable cornering balance has been squeezed out of existence .
14 To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us .
15 In London a survey has recently been carried out of Holborn and Westminster area firms and the High Court taxing officers have accepted for 1992/3 the broad average direct cost for carrying out litigation in an area will be £88 per hour .
16 The government lost by one vote , 311 to 310 , and for the first time since October 1924 an administration had been voted out of office through a Commons vote .
17 The historical value of their origin legend is open to question ; a national migration from the Baltic is unlikely , but the story may have been built out of traditions relating to specific groups which had played a part in the formation of the Gothic nation at various stages in its history .
18 An estimated 600 Libyans prisoners of war opposed to Kadhafi , who had received US military training , had been airlifted out of Chad with US assistance , first to Nigeria and thence to Zaïre .
19 Our four weeks at Orange had been made up of marching , singing , being hit and not having enough sleep .
20 Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’
21 Did you see that the British High Commissioner of Sri Lanka has been chucked out of Sri Lanka ?
22 The court was told between 1968 and 1982 money had been syphoned out of syndicates as purported reinsurance premiums to overseas companies controlled by Mr Cameron-Webb .
23 A stunning collection of more than twelve million photographs recording some of the most famous events in history has been moved out of London to a new home here in the Central South Region .
24 We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty .
25 He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of .
26 But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants .
27 Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation .
28 Countries like Ethiopia have been fed out of surpluses at little cost , but even there thousands have died before the food reached them .
29 Houses have been fashioned out of cardboard , canvas and corrugated tin .
30 As for Svengali , Owen Jones was one of several who had been mesmerised out of Port Talbot by Burton 's powers .
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