Example sentences of "[adj] out [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | She saw it lying at her feet , half out of the opened envelope . |
| 3 | Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) . |
| 4 | As late as i April 1924 , 3,704 out of the 5,416 Party members were concentrated in the towns . |
| 5 | And it is the same logic which attributes those few out of the 120,000 officers who pursue schemes designed to accelerate promotion with the derisory and metaphorically ephemeral classification of ‘ high-flyers ’ or ‘ butterfly boys ’ . |
| 6 | Figures are hard to come by , but the recent report Trends in public library selection policies notes that 12 out of the 32 libraries surveyed kept ‘ some ’ information about allocations for stock revision ( suggesting that the remainder did not have any formal programmes of revision ) . |
| 7 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First raid was on Munich when the Squadron sent out 22 out of the 88 aircraft despatched that night . |
| 10 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Another waiter came , and together they threw Soapy out into the cold street . |
| 13 | In the first week , 13 British players qualified through virtue of their rankings for the main draw , six out of the eight quarter-finals placings were British , with all four semi-finals placings also occupied by home players — a very successful first week ! |
| 14 | The Company had a share capital of £30,000 , and six out of the ten directors were from Yorkshire ! |
| 15 | The outcome meant that the SPD was now in government ( either alone or as the dominant partner ) in 10 out of the 16 Länder . |
| 16 | Only 10 out of the 24 hours of Sunrise 's daily programmes will be local . |
| 17 | The 230 councillors would then form an electoral college to elect 10 out of the 60 Legco members . |
| 18 | In 86 per cent of referrals ( 43 cases ) there was legitimate reason to investigate even if in 10 out of the 43 cases it was judged that the public concern was inaccurate . |
| 19 | The procedure to be followed in disputed actions ( whether default or fixed date actions ) is now set out in the automatic directions contained in Ord 17 , r 11(3) — ( 12 ) , subject to any further directions , given by the court ( Ord 17 , r 11(2) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 20 | They claimed that 133 out of the 225 MPs had signed the petition , which cited 24 cases of alleged corruption and nepotism . |
| 21 | On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole . |
| 22 | Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 2 ( Pen and Sword Books Ltd , 192pp , illus , sbk , £9.95 ) by Ron Collier tells the stories of 26 out of the 50 aircraft that have crashed in the Dark Peak area of the peak District National Park over the past 60 years . |
| 23 | Perhaps the World Cup had taken too much out of the younger sides . |
| 24 | Three out of the five LEAs in the writer 's sample had developed arts programmes which included this type of teacher . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Boxes enclose identical amino acids in at least three out of the four sequences . |
| 27 | Residues identical in at least three out of the four sequences are boxed . |
| 28 | In fact , young people come out worse overall on only three out of the thirteen attributes relative to older workers . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | It is always my hope and belief that by alerting social workers to the danger for children and parents of the passage of time and requiring them to point these out to the natural parents , that one would be avoiding that sort of drift , and collusion with parents of ‘ Oh do n't worry , you get yourself together and then we 'll think about him coming home . ’ |