Example sentences of "be [verb] out of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds .
2 We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’
3 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 .
4 This involves staff cuts , 850 of which have already been announced : 400 jobs are to go out of 1700 in Hull , 130 out of 650 in Baglan Bay , 200 out of 1300 in Antwerp and 120 out of 600 in central office .
5 The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 And there is another aspect of the construction of a word which it may also be helpful to know something about : that some ( particularly longer ) words are built out of other words , by adding prefixes at the beginning or suffixes at the end .
13 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 .
14 Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said : ‘ An awful lot of money has been made out of this area .
15 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 .
16 This may be partly because there are many pigs , who are a match for the boys , and partly because the boys are acting out of reasonable necessity , and not immature impulsiveness .
17 Dawn Allenby seemed annoyed too , though that was possibly because she 'd been cheated out of those extra moments in his arms .
18 Labour will ensure that these services are in place before patients who will benefit from life in the community are transferred out of long-term hospital care .
19 The little sweets are made out of flavoured fondant and wrapped in cellophane , but bought wrapped sweets could be substituted as a short-cut if necessary .
20 They 're made out of tubular steel and toughened perspex and are powered by an electric motor that spins the laserball more than 30 times a minute .
21 ‘ We 're getting out of this nightmare . ’
22 tell them that you 're recording out of common courtesy as was , but I did n't think you two would mind because it 's , well I do n't know interesting , interesting talking to you
23 But it is coming , and certainly some of the medium-sized shops , perhaps with a couple of two or three outlets but under the same management , where it 's not quite so easy to see when you 're running out of baked beans , are already beginning to take advantage of some of these retailing computers .
24 We 're running out of these now !
25 We 're opting out of one-night stands ;
26 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 .
27 Where achieving cultures are growing out of traditional ones there will inevitably be tension between the two , and the occasional conflicts will affect marketing development and growth .
28 Some of these fears have been forged out of bitter experience .
29 Meanwhile , Keegan is happy that Newcastle are going out of 1992 on a high after a roller-coaster 12 months on Tyneside .
30 ‘ It is not for us because we are going out of this business .
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