Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Our four weeks at Orange had been made up of marching , singing , being hit and not having enough sleep . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Did you see that the British High Commissioner of Sri Lanka has been chucked out of Sri Lanka ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 25 | Countries like Ethiopia have been fed out of surpluses at little cost , but even there thousands have died before the food reached them . |
| 26 | Houses have been fashioned out of cardboard , canvas and corrugated tin . |
| 27 | As for Svengali , Owen Jones was one of several who had been mesmerised out of Port Talbot by Burton 's powers . |
| 28 | Supposed old master paintings bought by Imelda Marcos , wife of the deposed President of the Philippines , with stolen government money have been hauled out of storage — and found to be fakes . |
| 29 | The lower half of the window was frosted glass , and the furniture could have been hauled out of store five minutes before . |
| 30 | Both works exploit the possibilities of clever echo effects , and must have been performed out of doors , with each orchestra in a different place . |