Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] out " 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 | it is clear justice has already been meted out to you . |
| 5 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 6 | At the USAF base virtually all buildings were razed to the ground , though seventy of the 72 F-16s stationed there had been flown out prior to the hurricane striking . |
| 7 | But a party from RAF Wroughton who assessed those on the UN list believe the most critical cases have now been flown out . |
| 8 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 9 | Of the eastern deputies who pipe up in parliament , some ( like the eloquent former communist Gregor Gysi ) are heard out with wrath , most only with amused disdain . |
| 10 | If anxieties are ironed out before a transfer takes place , the employee is less likely to be under the pressure of family concerns when taking up the new appointment . |
| 11 | But all the previously jagged edges are ironed out and the sound watered down , presumably by the omnipresent hand of The Man , so that Billy Ray Wanker fans will buy it . |
| 12 | The longer the period , the more the influences of your current position are ironed out , so that students who look ( and maybe are ! ) poor currently over their lifetime will generally look , and be , well off ; i.e. cross-section inequality is greater than time-series inequality . |
| 13 | When one goes for a major adventure like tornado you hope that most of the difficulties are are ironed out , clearly they 're not , another set of difficulties emerges . |
| 14 | But there is growing sentiment that , once these areas are ironed out , Tencel can become a big player in the better home furnishings and apparel markets . |
| 15 | Firstly , the masses are dismissed out of hand : |
| 16 | Hence the suggestion in [ 30 ] , but not in [ 23 ] , that the speaker feels that the disappearance of his childhood has no explanation , that he has been tricked out of his childhood . |
| 17 | A 93 year old woman has been tricked out of her life savings and pension book . |
| 18 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 19 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 20 | Because that 's what 's going to happen — you mark my words — however many Sakata reassurances are given out . ’ |
| 21 | An alternative in churches where hymn books are given out is to note the empty spaces in the shelves where they are stacked or count those that remain and deduct them from the total . |
| 22 | Fuelling this propaganda are free supplies of birth control pills , capsules and IUDs are given out to Timorese who are used to paying a small fortune just to consult a doctor . |
| 23 | Each year 200,000 sq kms of rainforest are ripped out worldwide and , at present levels , scientists estimate that the tropical rainforests will be just a memory by the year 2050 . |
| 24 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |
| 25 | A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms . |
| 26 | Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section . |
| 27 | Other connections between the psychic worlds of individuals and groups and their political relations have been traced out systematically by Guntrip . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the great curving staircase that was one of the most celebrated features of the house , half the bannisters had been ripped out , and used for firewood . |
| 30 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |