Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 6 | Firstly , the masses are dismissed out of hand : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A 93 year old woman has been tricked out of her life savings and pension book . |
| 9 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 10 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 13 | ‘ At this hour I imagine she 's fast asleep in bed — unless , like me , she 's been ripped out of it by some hooligan ! ’ |
| 14 | She said electrical sockets had been ripped out of walls . |
| 15 | It only stops when it ( and you ! ) are crushed out of existence at the central point of the hole ( or a little earlier when the stretching and crushing forces wreck it ) . |
| 16 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her sense of its deliberate concealment was overwhelmingly strong-it had been placed out of sight , but in a place where its owner could easily put his hand on it . |
| 19 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 20 | Compromise had , as he put it , been crushed out of existence . |
| 21 | She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt . |
| 22 | This involves staff cuts , 850 of which have already been announced : 400 jobs are to go out of 1700 in Hull , 130 out of 650 in Baglan Bay , 200 out of 1300 in Antwerp and 120 out of 600 in central office . |
| 23 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 24 | Sometimes Emmie woke feeling empty and lethargic as if everything had been drained out of her ; other mornings , she could hardly wait to get out of bed and begin the day . |
| 25 | Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds . |
| 26 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |
| 27 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 30 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |