Example sentences of "been [vb pp] out [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 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 | As has already been pointed out in section I .2 , practical redistributional measures are not costless , so that it is in all probability more efficient to tell the telephone company it has to bear the expense of maintaining rural telephone boxes than to fund these separately . |
| 7 | That such behaviour occurs for series and parallel resonant circuits has already been pointed out in section 5.7 . |
| 8 | As has been pointed out in Chapter Two , an integrated education programme should be based on the views of all the people participating in the various educational processes , but the final success of a given course depends , to a large extent , on the motivation of the students . |
| 9 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 10 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 11 | But now ‘ job ’ cars are going diesel completely , because from next year all cars must be cat-equipped if they are petrol vehicles , and so the price differential has been ironed out between petrol and diesel , since ‘ cat ’ cars are more expensive than non-'cats ' . |
| 12 | His eyes were red-rimmed and sagging , his nose a mass of pustules , and his teeth had been blacked out with enamel . |
| 13 | I can not help feeling that any good done might have been cancelled out by oil fires in the Gulf . |
| 14 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 15 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 16 | People who 've been let out of jail as well . |
| 17 | At last he said , with a helpless shrug , ‘ I feel I 've been let out of prison . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , readers by now will not be surprised to learn that political considerations ( rather than goods-specific externalities ) have been picked out in order to explain the selection of other forms of subsidies than cash transfers ( Browning 1975 ) . |
| 19 | The letters on the front of the Tivoli theatre should have been picked out in light bulbs , the " L " and the " O " were broken . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Hi , there , ’ he was trying the role for size , ‘ your telephone 's been reported out of order . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The contention is that today the margins have been squeezed out of PC sales . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A balanced perspective of the role of chance is difficult to develop or maintain when common sense has been drilled out during training . |
| 26 | It is hard to see how some of this work could practicably have been carried out without computer aid ; for example , the input to the analysis of on versus tu/vous realizations of the indefinite personal pronoun was ‘ 4,300 tokens , each one of which has been carefully studied as to its syntactic and discursive role … ’ |
| 27 | For appeal , see City of Glasgow District Licensing Board v. MacDonald , 1978 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 74 , which confirmed the competent procedure to be a summary application to the sheriff where the alteration had been carried out without consent . |
| 28 | The product development will have been carried out during summer 1992 ; sales material will have been ready by Christmas 1992 , and subscribing begins in earnest in January , continuing into spring . |
| 29 | The questionnaire survey , seminars , and interviews that have been carried out as part of the evaluation and monitoring exercise have all focused on this area . |
| 30 | In the UK where a comparatively large amount of research has been carried out into wave power it is estimated that with wave generators along the 1,450 kilometre coastline , 50% of the UK 's electricity requirements could be supplied . |