Example sentences of "be [vb pp] out by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 2 | These words are pointed out by means of accent . |
| 3 | Such a view is easily reconciled with Marxist theory , as has been pointed out by E. Terray [ Terray , 1977a ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer . |
| 6 | However , as has been pointed out by Hills , there are four main factors that affect learning in practical situations : motivation , activity , understanding , feedback . |
| 7 | One of the difficulties in designing this type of interface has been pointed out by Caruso , in that the design of IIDA was finalized prior to DIALOG 's introduction of SS — Select Steps command — so these are not included in IIDA . |
| 8 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |
| 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 | This has already been pointed out by Hoffman but his advice has been ignored . |
| 11 | It has recently been pointed out by Dr J. R. Studd that ‘ one of [ the Lord ] Edward 's greatest problems was his inability to settle lands from his appanage [ of Gascony and the isle of Oléron ] on those who gave him loyal service in a traditional way ’ . |
| 12 | It has been pointed out by feminists that the tradition which depends upon this demarcation line fails to give a satisfactory account of conflicts that arise in the private sphere . |
| 13 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 14 | However , that this is not the case had been pointed out by Professor Lodge , of the Department of French Studies in Newcastle University , in a letter to the Guardian , in which he argues that it is a matter of concern that ‘ A level presentations in modern languages are falling away sharply , particularly among boys ’ . |
| 15 | Dr P 's argument disguises the reality that , as has been pointed out by writers as diverse as Spender ( 1981a ) and Eagleton ( 1983 ) , only a small group of people , historically , have participated in deciding which literature gets the best ‘ results ’ . |
| 16 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 17 | For this reason it may not be correct to relate thermodynamic quantities obtained from one cooling curve to those obtained by another as has been pointed out by Gee ( 1966 ) . |
| 18 | Erm I think before I start , it 's very very important , as has been pointed out by the previous two speakers , that we actually make a practical response to the closure of Hospital . |
| 19 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 20 | It has often been pointed out by commentators that there is an ambiguity in Tocqueville 's discussion . |
| 21 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 22 | It has been pointed out by Dr Baugh that if rising levels of poor-relief expenditure are expressed in per capita terms and related to wheat prices , the real level of poor-relief spending was fairly constant from the early 1790s to 1814 . |
| 23 | This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window . |
| 24 | The synapsis of sign has already been pointed out by Hirtle ( 1967 : 21 ) , but the reason suggested for it — namely , that the infinitive has the meaning " event time not yet actualized " and the non-past indicative implies " event in the not yet stretch of universe time " — will have to be re-examined . |
| 25 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 28 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 29 | But Koch , sporting a crew shirt with a bullseye target on the back — ‘ when anything bad happens I seem to get blamed ’ — said his camp had been caught out by the light winds in the semi-final . |
| 30 | 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 . |