Example sentences of "been put [adv] of " in BNC.
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1 | The Reader is desired to take notice , that as , the Date of the License witnesses , this Booke , should have been Printed long agoe , and there has been a mistake in the bot-tome of the Title Page , where the Year 1680 has been put instead of the Year 1679. in which it was really Printed off , though not publickly expos 's to Sale , til the beginning of this Month of January . |
2 | Four US helicopters had been put out of action . |
3 | Moreover , they undoubtedly claimed the disafforestment of districts which had been put out of the forest during the reign of Stephen , and subsequently reclaimed by Henry II . |
4 | The barons complained that Henry III had arbitrarily re-afforested woods and lands which had been put out of the forest by the perambulations of 1225 ; that he claimed the wardship of heirs to assarts made within the forest , to the detriment of the overlords in whose lands such assarts had been made ; and that he made frequent grants of the right of free warren in disafforested areas , thereby restricting the free rights of hunting which ought to have been enjoyed by landowners in such districts . |
5 | The royal demesne vills , fields and woods in Sherwood Forest , for example , which had been put out of the forest by the perambulation of 1300 , were now ‘ entirely put back into the forests by the said King Edward ’ . |
6 | He soon turned his attention to the districts which had been put out of the forest earlier in the reign . |
7 | The Forest law still applied in some measure , however , to the purlieus , the outlying districts which had been put out of the forest during the fourteenth century — although in some parts of the country the authority of the Forest officers was disputed there . |
8 | There were suggestions from the American air force that the controls may have been put out of order by the fire which caused the crash and that , even if the pilot had stayed in his cockpit until the collision , he would not have been able to do more . |
9 | We did get an occasional glimpse of the sun towards the end of the month , and it was so welcome for even our ambulance station had been put out of action , and it was not easy to get patients moved before the next batch came . |
10 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
11 | In the short run he wished to rally moderate Indian opinion , which had been put out of countenance by its non-inclusion in the Simon Commission , set up to review the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in 1927 ; in the long term he wished to save India for the Commonwealth . |
12 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
13 | By about l3.30 on 18 March , the guns of the main Turkish batteries had almost all been put out of action by long-range bombardment by Allied ships . |
14 | Lepine climbs the escalators , which have been put out of service . |
15 | At a time when nearly half of Britain 's destroyers had been put out of action , he arranged with Winston Churchill to provide 50 over-age US destroyers in return for the leases on eight British naval bases in the American hemisphere . |
16 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
17 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
18 | A lifeboat has been put out of action by thieves who 've stolen and damaged rescue equipment worth thousands of pounds . |
19 | But a Welsh Water official gave an assurance that supplies were safe , and he said extra pumps were being brought in to take over from giant pumps which had been put out of action by an electrical failure during the floods . |
20 | An RNLI spokesman said : ‘ They were lucky that they were accompanied by another yacht because their radio had been put out of action . ’ |