Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Countries like Ethiopia have been fed out of surpluses at little cost , but even there thousands have died before the food reached them . |
| 2 | On past experience , a 15 per cent devaluation could be expected to feed through at roughly 3 per cent a year for five years , and if this is repeated , it is still far too soon to say that inflationary expectations have been beaten out of the economy . |
| 3 | The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk . |
| 4 | ‘ Father says four more have been dug out of a drift and they are still alive . ’ |
| 5 | On the quiet side of the bay , little coves have been scooped out of the shingle . |
| 6 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’ |
| 9 | There are a number of instances in China , however , where oases have been created out of the desert and where desertification has been halted . |
| 10 | How can such misery and fear have been created out of the vast natural wealth of our country ? ’ |
| 11 | This would include East African Asians who have been kept out of Britain all these years , and possibly the more recently arrived East African Asians in Britain . |
| 12 | Then the risks that Hayzen associates with the ‘ Scramble ’ position may not exist , because rivals have been kept out of the market and it is too late to enter . |
| 13 | More than 5,000 have been locked out of St James 's Park for each of the last two games and Keegan gasped : ‘ The fans are amazing . |
| 14 | There is an immaculately manicured lawn , a little pond surrounded by rushes , a high wall with young trees and creepers climbing up toward the wire netting at the top , beds of flowers , and , by some of the front doors , holes have been gouged out of the paving and clematis and creepers planted . |
| 15 | These have been gouged out of the hills , probably under periglacial conditions , and their debris spread on the lowlands below . |
| 16 | Yet , like so many other Raj survivals , the marriage adverts have been mutated out of all recognition from their understated British originals . |
| 17 | TWO of the top three women in Britain 's national rankings , Sara Gomer and Monique Javer , have been left out of the British team for the European championships which take place in Nantes from November 23 to 26 . |
| 18 | Those who are likely to complain about a one-party state have been left out of the delegations . |
| 19 | The leg spinner Peter Sleep , the all-rounder Tom Moody and Carl Rackemann have been left out of next week 's squad for the one-day tournament against Sri Lanka and Pakistan . |
| 20 | Former vice-captain Geoff Marsh , Bruce Reid , Merv Hughes , Steve Waugh and Peter Taylor have been left out of Australia 's tour party to visit Sri Lanka in August . |
| 21 | SPURS ' Norway goalkeeper Erik Thorstvedt is n't shocked that Peter Beardsley and Chris Waddle have been left out of England 's squad . |
| 22 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 23 | This is just , I 'm not going to through these exercises , this is an exercise on the apostrophe to show , not possession this time , but that letters have been left out of words . |
| 24 | Lagan Valley party deplores the fact that local Tories have been left out of the new regional Conservative structure . |
| 25 | SUNDERLAND crowd favourite Kieron Brady and £225,000 winger Brian Mooney have been left out of tonight 's reserve game against Sheffield United at Roker Park for disciplinary reasons . |
| 26 | Neither the birds nor their watchers have been left out of the scheme . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | More than three million hens have been destroyed at a cost of more than £5 million and a number of egg producers have been forced out of business as a result . |
| 29 | In fact , competition has been reduced , prices have rocketed , thousands of public house tenants have been forced out of the trade and thousands more have felt that they have no reasonable option other than to accept the terms being imposed upon them by the brewers and accept long leases at enormously increased rents , with full responsibility for repairs . |
| 30 | Tenants have suffered great distress ; many thousands of them have been forced out of their homes and businesses . |