Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm , System 6 , apparently got a lot of the work done by an engineering contingent fresh out of the Russian Academy of Science . |
| 2 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 3 | She saw it lying at her feet , half out of the opened envelope . |
| 4 | As late as i April 1924 , 3,704 out of the 5,416 Party members were concentrated in the towns . |
| 5 | Joining these two , Mr Pleavin also took home Fishwick Mandy at 1500gns , another out of a Royal Show title dam . |
| 6 | Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work . |
| 7 | Even 2 out of every 3 farm labouring families stayed put and overall 3 out of every 4 households remained virtually the same . |
| 8 | The number of operators available to answer emergency calls at any one time will be reduced from 2,000 out of a trained total of 8,000 , to just 150 . |
| 9 | If the Iranian operation worked , the hostages would be freed , terrorism would cease , Iran and Iraq would make peace ( the grand climaxes were often not connected , but somehow self-generating out of the golden atmosphere ) , and Iran would be secured in the American , rather than the Soviet , camp . |
| 10 | For instance , thirteen out of every fourteen jade axes from the British Isles were made of jadeite , and this was the predominant material used for the same purpose in France and Germany . |
| 11 | The outcome meant that the SPD was now in government ( either alone or as the dominant partner ) in 10 out of the 16 Länder . |
| 12 | The association , which grew out of the Mongolian Democratic Party in May 1990 , demanded representation in the People 's Great Hural , asking other parties to cede two seats and claiming that there were 90,000 unemployed people in Mongolia ; the official figure was 30,000 out of a total population of 2,000,000 . |
| 13 | The emphasis was on the termination of parental rights in favour of long-term fostering and adoption ; Tunstill comments that , in three out of the four case histories in the guide to the assumption of parental rights , the only possibility of a ‘ happy ending ’ was by means of such steps . |
| 14 | Between 1889 and 1910 fifty-eight clubs moved into new grounds , though there was often continuity of land use in the sense that , at least 35 out of the current league grounds were recreational or sporting grounds in some form before the clubs moved in ’ . |
| 15 | By 1600 , its population had grown to 200,000 out of a national population of 3.5 million . |
| 16 | Secretly Margaret thought he 'd be better out of the racing business . |
| 17 | For instance , there are only 17 out of the 69 Mathematics statements of attainment for Levels 1 to 3 . |
| 18 | Rivalry with France was one theme in the centuries of empire to come , but after the loss of Calais the English concentrated on capturing French colonies or in restraining French attempts to dominate Europe rather than on trying to make anything substantial out of the nominal claim to the French crown that English kings asserted until 1801 . |
| 19 | Wills had been disproportionately hit by the current recession and had one of the highest levels of unemployment ( almost 20,000 out of a total population of 140,000 ) in the country . |
| 20 | This planet inflates anything it touches so , on the one hand it will make you even more seeringly aware of the flaws in a relationship and , on the other , it will bring the great and good out of an appropriate union . |
| 21 | It was formed in 1913 out of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , together with the General Railway Workers ' Union and the United Pointsmen 's and Signalmen 's Society ( Bagwell 1963 ) . |
| 22 | And Pound understandably gets all the mileage possible out of the ill-starred history of ‘ QR ’ : |
| 23 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |
| 24 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 25 | Right you 'd get two twelfths out of the second pizza as well there 's another two twelfths so you 'd have four twelfths all together . |
| 26 | He later admitted that his knowledge of trams was limited to his experience where , as Chief Engineer , he was lucky to get fifteen out of a decrepit fleet of fifty-seven trams into service each day ! |
| 27 | They crossed the dirt road and went into the little surgery , cool out of the direct sun . |
| 28 | In effect the Phillips curve depicted in Figure 6.6 is but one out of an infinite set of short-run Phillips curves , each curve corresponding to a different expected rate of inflation . |
| 29 | According to the American National Commission on Product Safety ( 1971 : 1 ) approximately 20 millions out of a total population of over 250 million are seriously injured annually by consumer products , with 110,000 resulting in permanent disability and 30,000 resulting in death . |
| 30 | In comparison with its direct rivals , the larger general converters , Colodense was placed number one in nine out of the 14 business areas . |