Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |
| 3 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 4 | By the early seventies , Teheran was littered with forgotten men who had worked in the government or the court and had once-once was too often-dared to question a decision or a policy and had thenceforth been frozen out of all official life . |
| 5 | Research reviews have also been carried out of existing knowledge about inequalities between men and women and between the ethnic groups in the UK in respect of both health and health care . |
| 6 | The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm . |
| 7 | This year in itself , the single person has been done out of two pound ninety pence and er after the er older ones that 's four pound odd . |
| 8 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 9 | That state sector has been made up of nationalized industries , and of extensive welfare services provided on the basis of need , and not on the basis of the ability to pay . |
| 10 | The earliest written version of Lex Salica seems to have been made up of sixty-five titles . |
| 11 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 12 | Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said : ‘ An awful lot of money has been made out of this area . |
| 13 | Durham University Patrick Brodie , 21 , rescued by friends after suffering multiple injuries in a 40ft fall from a walkway into the River Wear in the city has been moved out of intensive care at Dryburn Hospital and was yesterday stable and satisfactory . |
| 14 | Dawn Allenby seemed annoyed too , though that was possibly because she 'd been cheated out of those extra moments in his arms . |
| 15 | These may include " black " which has a black body , " sooty " with a dull black body , " antennapedia " with forked antennae and " microcephalic " which has a small head , as if a piece has been bitten out of each side . |
| 16 | Some of these fears have been forged out of bitter experience . |
| 17 | The system has been born out of rapid expansion in recent years as the business has opened new centres and employed more people . |
| 18 | Salim can be designated a Kenya Asian : the name we give to those hard-working aliens who have been driven out of African countries , and who include the shopkeepers and merchants expropriated in Uganda by Amin . |
| 19 | Drawers had been pulled out of military chests , left on the floor . |
| 20 | Literally billions have been smuggled out of Third World countries to Western banks , often in suitcases . |
| 21 | Yet , like so many other Raj survivals , the marriage adverts have been mutated out of all recognition from their understated British originals . |
| 22 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 23 | All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had . |
| 24 | By that age , 51% have been promoted out of clerical work and for them it is merely a stepping-stone to a higher status non-manual job . |
| 25 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 26 | number six er what this is basically saying is we want to do two point history structural maintenance erm fire drill but anything that 's been taken out of this budget in that area , we should replace by from that . |
| 27 | They would fill the tanker from there and we go round the quarry filling the front machines , but erm they say at five or six thousand gallons has been emptied out of that er dump . |
| 28 | The Goths had been forced out of central Europe by Hun pressure from the east . |
| 29 | The leg spinner Peter Sleep , the all-rounder Tom Moody and Carl Rackemann have been left out of next week 's squad for the one-day tournament against Sri Lanka and Pakistan . |
| 30 | But while Pearce might be irreplaceable for Forest , United have learnt to live without Robson , whose likely replacement at Wembley is Neil Webb , the former Forest midfielder who has been left out of United 's last three games . |