Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief . |
| 2 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 3 | We do not think the criterion can be put any better or more clearly than it is put in R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) and would hold that , on the true construction of the 18 February 1985 mortgage , the defendants are entitled to be paid or to retain out of the mortgaged property all their actual costs , charges and expenses ( including the receivers ' remuneration ) except in so far they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and with any doubts as to whether the costs have been reasonably incurred or are reasonable in amount being resolved in favour of the defendants . |
| 4 | About 30 passengers were allowed to leave or slipped out of the back door in Tallinn , leaving some 50 passengers and crew to continue the journey to Stockholm . |
| 5 | Soil films probably react differently because of partial oxidation , heat modification or drying out of the uppermost layers , forming a ‘ case hardened ’ skin which protects the body of the soil . |
| 6 | The appeal raises important and , to our minds , difficult questions of principle regarding the right of a mortgagor on the taking of a mortgage account to object to the level of costs , charges and expenses which the mortgagee claims to be entitled to charge against or retain out of the mortgaged property . |
| 7 | They all rave about Muddy , Charlie Patton and Son House — singers that came out of the same patch in Coahoma County — but they turn all reticent and confused when it comes to the act that 's outlived and outsold them all . |
| 8 | Scientists have studied how the cloud of electrons , protons and neutrons that came out of the big bang would have coalesced to make nuclei and atoms ; their studies correctly predict the proportion of various chemical elements in the universe . |
| 9 | Up to now all we 've got are light gases the gases that came out of the Big Bang . |
| 10 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 11 | The Chief twitched his famous eyebrows , that stuck out of the flying helmet like two ledges , showed his famous teeth . |
| 12 | Space does not permit a full account of the highly complex arrangements for providing milk to schoolchildren that developed out of the 1934 ‘ milk-in-schools ’ scheme . |
| 13 | Middenheim stands atop a sheer-sided pinnacle of rock that rises out of the surrounding forest . |
| 14 | In Polish Romantic art there was a frustrated urge to responsibility and national independence accompanied also by an indolence that grew out of the crushing knowledge that the resurrection of Poland would not arrive in the artist 's lifetime . |
| 15 | One such is Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners — one of the great and successful commercial practices that grew out of the post-war explosion in public sector development . |
| 16 | Through their press and journals , through such political organizations as Renovaciòn Españiola , founded in early 1933 , through their nurturing of Spanish fascism and subversion of the officer corps , the Alfonsists played an important part in undermining Spanish democracy and creating the ideological foundations of the Franco regime that emerged out of the Civil War . |
| 17 | The musical forms that emerged out of the American black experience — gospel , blues , jazz initially ; soul , funk , rock'n'roll , R&B , reggae , rap , House eventually — went on to become the dominant repertoire of popular music throughout the world , no matter how watered down . |
| 18 | The accounts of our abnormality that arise out of the theoretical perspectives of individual psychology and of non-materialist social psychology are rejected on the grounds of their incoherency , and their ideological nature is indicated . |
| 19 | All around the lake are similarly charming villages , easily reached by the regular ferry service that operates out of the bustling little harbour . |
| 20 | ‘ It is not truth that comes out of the Black Comedy 's darkness , but only sight gags . |
| 21 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 22 | Sergeant Joe finished his warming whisky , shook hands with Mr Singleton , took hold of his carpet-bag , and limped out of the cosy , club-like atmosphere of Hennessey 's . |
| 23 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 24 | However , competitive pressures can still be generated by another feature of the industry mentioned before — the relative ease of entry into and exit out of the big league . |
| 25 | He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court . |
| 26 | Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone . |
| 27 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 28 | Time to get out of there before she was roped in to help , she thought , and sneaked out of the main doors into the deluge that was still cascading down . |
| 29 | I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window . |
| 30 | ‘ I must admit — ’ Charles picked at the end of his thumb and frowned out of the smoked glass office window at the leaden September sky beyond ‘ — I 'm not sure precisely what Guy 's up to . |