Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone . |
| 2 | we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 5 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 6 | I have already put forward my view that in the foreseeable future there is unlikely to be a sufficiency of common purpose or tradition to create out of a federal Parliament the necessary cohesion for it to control , or even to have much influence over , the unelected central bodies , especially the Commission and the Court of Justice . |
| 7 | Just having one calf a year to sell instead of a sizeable number like most farmers . |
| 8 | At first glance , the head seemed to consist solely of a long nose protruding from a tangle of hair , thereby resembling the countenance of a maned vole , though considerably larger in size . |
| 9 | He 'd managed to walk out of a locked ward at the Fairmile psychiatric hospital , and it 's thought he threw himself under an express train . |
| 10 | ICL itself admits to be investigating a parallel processor architecture that will use HyperSparc , sources say this is likely to grow out of a 256 CPU parallel system that the company is now building under the auspices of the European Community 's Esprit project . |
| 11 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 12 | And I think that perhaps we 've all learned a lesson from it , plus the fact that you 've er , had to climb out of an horrendous accident , but the fact that if you are still drinking at half past four in the morning , the last thing you should do at nine o'clock in the morning is get in the car and drive the damn thing . |
| 13 | It therefore came as a shock in early afternoon when reports began to filter through of a massive disaster that had overtaken the centre on the Pratzen Heights . |
| 14 | This was probably a consequence of British membership of WEU , but Britain 's recent agreement to a treaty of association with the ECSC may have led the Six again to think optimistically of a British change of heart . |
| 15 | Warning people to get out of a certain hotel … ’ |
| 16 | Although stimulation of an individual country may not work , joint reflation of the OECD economies may help to get out of a world-wide recession . |
| 17 | Thus , it is possible for things to get out of a black hole . |
| 18 | How to get out of a tight situation |
| 19 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |
| 20 | Less obvious is the offence by those teachers who are unable to break out of a strict interpretation of their teaching role , that is , as purveyors of information and nothing else . |
| 21 | Throughout the tournament the popular Murray admitted to feeling enormous tension as he battled to stay ahead of a top-class field , which included eight members of the European Ryder Cup team . |
| 22 | DRIVERS are being warned to steer clear of a major road because of sniper and rock-throwing attacks . |
| 23 | In many cases the obligation has been held to arise out of an implied term of a contract between the parties . |
| 24 | The independent turn of mind of the youngsters first showed itself when they were invited to choose who to throw out of a descending balloon . |
| 25 | Jangling her keys more like a jailer than an attendant , she went to gaze out of a narrow window at what could be seen of the prosperous modern city , returning to peer over my shoulder and sniff . |
| 26 | Ryokan have a lot of potential for the tired traveller and exhausted businessman , for they offer a total experience of the Japanese way of life for the price of room hire , and allow guests to step out of a complicated world of congestion into a dream world of relaxation , simplicity , tranquillity and leisure . |