Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been drive out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 2 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 3 | She was gripping the tiller arm so tightly that the blood had been driven out of her knuckles . |
| 4 | Nothing could have been more controlled or correct , as if he did not know that his father had been driven out of the principality like a half-drowned rat , or a hound caught in a thunderstorm , and running for shelter with its tail between its legs . |
| 5 | Three or four pamphlets and books have attacked ‘ the pernicious myth of monarchy ’ , but serious discussion of the usefulness or otherwise of the royal family has been driven out by simpering nonsense from a pack of tabloid reporters who devote their not inconsiderable imaginations to dreaming up new twists to a comic-strip family drama with a cast-list now augmented by half-a-dozen non-royal spouses and their families . |
| 6 | A FAMILY have been driven out of their Liverpool home by what they claim is a poltergeist . |