Example sentences of "been [verb] out [prep] [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 | Not only in P P G seven but as has been pointed out in other erm guidance notes such as four erm and three . |
| 3 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 4 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 5 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 6 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And although there is less new material to play on your deck , second-hand shops are bulging with whole collections that have been turfed out by over-zealous digital converts . |
| 9 | Some of the functionality that lets it be sold for over $10,000 has been stripped out like technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages over 11 x 17 . |
| 10 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 11 | There have also been a number of memorable failures in this country , and having been caught out by one myself , I do n't believe we are too well-placed to criticise the failings of others . |
| 12 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 15 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 16 | Advertising has been banned in Iceland since 1971 ; surveys of 12–16 year olds in Reykjavik ( where 40% of the entire age- group live ) have been carried out since 1974 and show a very clear trend . |
| 17 | Considerable research has been carried out since 1973 by the Department of Geology at Cardiff University . |
| 18 | On Aug. 29 Nazarbayev closed the nuclear testing site at Semipalatinsk where over 500 nuclear explosions had been carried out since 1949 . |
| 19 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 20 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 21 | Special investigations have also been carried out into British aid for India and the payment of pensions in Gibraltar . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is why we appear to be witnessing a new round of military coup attempts in those happy places where western prescriptions have been carried out with such fidelity : for example , Fujimoro in Peru last week , and the events in Venezuela in February . |
| 25 | The development of a separate manpower policy agency seems to have been carried out with all these motives in minds The University Grants Committee has been seen as serving the second and third purposes . |
| 26 | and a large reform had been carried out with little trouble . |
| 27 | However , some interesting experiments have been carried out with another polygamous bird , the long-tailed widow bird . |
| 28 | We readily agreed that the conversion had been carried out with more imagination than we would have been able to bring to it , but could we afford it ? |
| 29 | When a research project is written up it will probably not be any grandiose offering ( indeed it will probably be all the better for not being grandiose ) , but if the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy and the statement of results does not go beyond the limits justified by the data then a useful craftsmanlike job of work will have been accomplished . |
| 30 | The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao . |