Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 2 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 3 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 4 | The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out . |
| 5 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 6 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 7 | we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ; |
| 8 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 9 | Matusow was one of those lucky , and curious , souls who surfaced out of a curious past — like Michael X/Malik/de Freitas — in those fragmented times . |
| 10 | The post-tour inquest led to the WRU secretary , David East , and the president , Clive Rowlands , walking out of a general committee meeting . |
| 11 | Spackman is seen walking out of a black niche , his right leg forward , and the right hand holding the winding-sheet against the outer thigh ; underneath he wears an open shirt with broad cuffs from which the draw-strings have been released . |
| 12 | A CONVICTED wife-killer who fled to the Irish Republic after walking out of a mental hospital was being flown back to Britain today , police said . |
| 13 | He 's got a little kid in one hand and he 's walking out of a burning building . |
| 14 | A notorious Australian criminal is behind bars again eight weeks after walking out of an open prison . |
| 15 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 16 | A YOUNG couple scrambled out of a blazing car 's hatchback as their two friends died in the front seats . |
| 17 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 18 | The gifts of the Spirit come out of a living relationship with the Father . |
| 19 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 20 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 21 | ‘ They are let out of a greyhound-style trap and can cover more than 100 metres in a matter of seconds when they get a whiff of food , ’ says Michael , 52 . |
| 22 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 23 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 24 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |
| 25 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 26 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 27 | A message is made up of a fixed number of time-frames , and during each time-frame either f0 is transmitted to represent the digit ‘ 0 ’ , or f1 is transmitted to represent the other binary digit ‘ 1 ’ . |
| 28 | Each operand is a computer word ( either in the accumulator or a store location ) , made up of a fixed number of decimal digits . |
| 29 | The main board will normally be made up of a chief executive , who will hold the office of managing director , or possibly chairman , or both , and will include a number of ‘ heads of department ’ , for example the finance director , personnel director , technical director , and so on . |
| 30 | Yes it 's erm made up of a small proportion of the countries in the General , General Assembly , about five countries and seats on it erm basically the allies from the second world war erm and the other seats are changed around periodically between the nation , other nations . |