Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired .
5 She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt .
6 Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds .
7 Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated .
8 Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all .
9 When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head .
10 John Prescott , transport spokesman , has largely been frozen out of the national campaign , which is surprising given his adept performance on BBC 's election call this week .
11 While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard .
12 And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year .
13 He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue .
14 Institutions , such as the Cabinet , are sucked out of the larger political and societal context that gives them meaning , and they are regarded as having a life and importance all of their own .
15 Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make .
16 The Dutch master has been squeezed out of the multi-million pound Milan squad on several occasions this season ; not surprising , considering the club have six top ‘ foreigners ’ on their books .
17 They hold debates on a wide variety of topics , some of which are squeezed out of the Commons programme through lack of time .
18 As it was , he had been lifted out of the void in which he had barely existed , on to a plane that was real — he underlined it triumphantly .
19 Cornelia Knight has been lifted out of the category of femininity in which woman is famed for her ‘ beauty ’ , itself an effect of class ( food , clothes , health ) and an attempt is being made , using the most canonised resources of western art to imag(in)e for us a combination of femininity and intellectuality .
20 It is extraordinary how all that has been slung out of the window . ’
21 ‘ People are fed up of the mayhem and death wreaked by young criminals .
22 This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities .
23 Hewlett-Packard Co last week introduced the latest swat of HP 9000 Series 800 business servers — thirteen uni-processor machines whose top ends are built out of the new 7100 PA-RISC chip .
24 PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight .
25 A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components :
26 However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts .
27 Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) .
28 A big issue has been made out of the racism allegations , which I think people will make up their own minds about , but no-one 's made a big issue out of the fact that a lot of people are getting ripped off here . ’
29 The garage was part of the stable block and had been made out of the old coach house .
30 It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country .
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