Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He is particularly interested in the various features of childhood experiences that have been singled out by different theorists as the important determinants of adult personality : feeding regimes , toilet training , parental warmth , permissiveness and so on .
2 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 .
3 The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems .
4 Carrying on from this , there is a series of demonstrations , which have been planned out in easy stages and are therefore not too daunting .
5 Elephants have been wiped out from Western and Northern Africa and are acutely endangered in Eastern Africa .
6 By that age , 51% have been promoted out of clerical work and for them it is merely a stepping-stone to a higher status non-manual job .
7 Salim can be designated a Kenya Asian : the name we give to those hard-working aliens who have been driven out of African countries , and who include the shopkeepers and merchants expropriated in Uganda by Amin .
8 This information is sometimes used today in building wooden houses but , on the whole , mechanical connexions of all kinds have been driven out by modern glues which have made the efficient use of wood possible but have introduced problems of their own .
9 Work on skeletal ageing is still far from complete ; most of the ossification periods and eruption times have been worked out on American and European samples , and may not apply exactly to other parts of the world 's population .
10 Some of these fears have been forged out of bitter experience .
11 The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao .
12 Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems .
13 In most of the foregoing discussion we have assumed that the deformations which we have related to stresses have been carried out at constant temperature .
14 Fewer studies have been carried out on microcirculatory hemodynamic changes of the stomach induced by endothelin , however .
15 Phase I clinical trials have been carried out on healthy volunteers to evaluate the way the drug is absorbed and its potential toxicity .
16 As for the social composition of the judiciary , the many surveys that have been carried out in recent years ( see Griffith , 1995 : 25 ) show the overwhelming predominance of upper-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds .
17 Those few studies that have been carried out in free-running experiments suggest that the body clock might run slightly faster .
18 Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) .
19 No developments on the scale needed for London have been carried out within primary care within the lifetime of the NHS — but their success will be critical to the calibre of health services for Londoners into the next century .
20 Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ?
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