Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] of a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
| 2 | The incident happened when the American star threatened to pull out of a rain-drenched open-air concert in Taiwan . |
| 3 | Bottom , between those of the Lovers in the pas de deux and those of Titania and Bottom , the movements grow out of a firm technical choreographic design . |
| 4 | Over the past year , many a fund manager has had his confidence shattered as supposedly reliable shares that were the solid core of his portfolio — IBM , Merck , Kellogg , Philip Morris — crashed out of a clear blue sky . |
| 5 | If a once beautiful and honest young girl has become dishevelled and has dropped out of a promising educational course and is in perpetual trouble with the Police , then it is almost superfluous to ask questions on drug use or to look for physical signs of drug addiction , even though clinical accuracy demands this . |
| 6 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
| 7 | They made a bit more fuss soon afterwards when Erich Honecker , the former East German leader , was whisked out of a Soviet military hospital in the east and flown to Moscow , beyond the reach of German prosecutors . |
| 8 | Looking out of a tall narrow window at a winter sky , the only source of light in a darkened room . |
| 9 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
| 10 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 11 | The scanner , made out of a large magnetic tube , gives detailed medical checks without surgery or side-effects . |
| 12 | Jasper stood looking at the bell rope which came out of a small square aperture at what was the base of the campanile . |
| 13 | We may perhaps speak here of a discontinuous semantic constituent . |
| 14 | Here we berthed ahead of a small German coaster which was discharging timber from Finland on a regular run . |
| 15 | It consisted only of a simple two-storey stone block with an overall shed behind covering two platforms . |
| 16 | I have never seen anyone create a gap in the crowd for one of the nice people , who are stagediving either to have fun or get out of a painful suffocating position in front . |
| 17 | Blagg was lying flat on his back but bulging out of a small single bed that itself crowded the tiny room . |
| 18 | In the population served by Oxford Regional Health Authority during the year to September 1990 , 978 boys were circumcised out of a total estimated population of 299 600 — a rate of 0.33% a year ( statistics unit of Oxford Regional Health Authority ) . |
| 19 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 20 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 21 | Mr Lamont also pulled out of a scheduled question-and-answer session at the end of a keynote speech at the CBI 's conference on private finance today . |
| 22 | Clark was visibly unhappy in his Lotus-Cosworth and , despite being the race favourite , was struggling in eighth place on the sixth lap when , coming out of a gentle right-hand curve , he lose control of the car . |
| 23 | The epidermis at this stage consists simply of a single basal layer of cuboidal cells overlaid by an outer layer of squamous cells , called the periderm . |
| 24 | Their varied and imaginative tactics grew out of a strong collective identity developed in the face of the hostility they encountered from management . |
| 25 | ‘ For example , a neural networks project grew out of a Harwell-led European initiative , ANNIE . |
| 26 | At least 50 civilian demonstrators were killed by the military in a confrontation which ultimately forced Suchinda to resign in June , when the House of Representatives was dissolved and a new interim government appointed ahead of a fresh general election [ see pp. 38816 ; 38865 ; 38894-95 ; 38966 ] . |
| 27 | She untied the sleeves of her sweater and began to pull it on over her head , aware as she did so of a faint muffled sound behind her . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're not trying to get out of a short-term financial embarrassment , which gives us flexibility . |
| 29 | They made a vital contribution to the lively syndicate and plenary discussions , as well as to the other events , including a debate on who should not be thrown out of a hypothetical sinking hot air balloon . |
| 30 | Dyson broke off in mid-explanation , frowning at a piece of copy-paper he had taken out of a little brown envelope marked ‘ J. Dyson Esqre . ’ |