Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 2 | In a meritocracy , talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata . |
| 3 | The barest instant after he was free , a tongue of flame blasted out of the cave at his heels , and pieces of the higher slopes disappeared inwards as flames and gouts of smoke exploded out of the weaker points of the mountain . |
| 4 | and then you 've got smaller branches coming off of the smaller branches |
| 5 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 6 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |