Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 2 | Suddenly out of the murky haze , I saw one charging at me . |
| 3 | Llewelyn caught her by the hand as she rose , with one of those warm , moving gestures of his that came so suddenly out of the very centre of his royalty , to join him by the heart with the simplest of those who moved about him . |
| 4 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 5 | By the time he reached Tyberton , which was only three miles from the camp , he was sweating , for the sun was shining fiercely out of a clear sky . |
| 6 | Next , unscrew the old socket faceplate , ease the cables inside out of the mounting box , and disconnect the cable cores from the terminals . |
| 7 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 8 | Where the street broadened into a square , the houses were swathed in plumbago and bougainvillaea growing valiantly out of the cobbled pavement . |
| 9 | It is the Underworld indeed , with rain slashing down out of a black sky , and the wind tearing the roses off the side of the house . |
| 10 | They began to pick a path down out of the high land to where the towns and villages of Ralarth and its fiefs stretched green below them into the far distance , silent under the early sunlight . |
| 11 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |
| 12 | So out of a large quantity of fuel this blast furnace gas , only a little bit will actually burn to give you heat . |
| 13 | Sometimes an old woman clambered mysteriously alone out of the dark silence on to the airy lightness of the Ridgery ; sometimes a friar came out of the trees , mounted to the village and required alms in a confident whining way . |
| 14 | She shut herself in out of the drizzling rain , and expressed her delight with everything . |
| 15 | The wind , I thought , was shaking the door , but no , it was St John , who came in out of the frozen darkness , his coat covered in snow . |
| 16 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 17 | So , at least your in out of the damp cold , it 's so damp out there . |
| 18 | Thus out of a whole range of ‘ sexual ’ acts where the balance of consent versus coercion is at least ambiguous , the criminal law draws a line demarcating those where physical force is used or threatened from those where any other kind of power is utilized to overcome a female 's resistance . |
| 19 | Why should a thousand people be given licence by the district council to do what an individual would be arrested for doing , and why should the police who would arrest you or I for doing it , be paid overtime out of the public purse to stand and watch this organised chaos wend its way across the city ? |
| 20 | In some localities blastoids like this one break easily out of the enclosing matrix , or are weathered out in considerable numbers . |
| 21 | The Oxford Stadium was the venue for the Pall Mall final which brought the best out of a local dog . |
| 22 | We shall fail to get the best out of the European Community , because our leaders will continue to be afraid to tell us that shared success in the Community means sharing sovereignty too . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’ |
| 24 | I looked guiltily out of the open door . |
| 25 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 26 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
| 27 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 28 | We slowly sweated our way up the steep mountainside on wet , slippery grass which gave way to wetter , slippier rocks looming vertically out of the swirling mist . |
| 29 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 30 | The major-domo came quickly out of the inner chamber . |