Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experienced credit managers will be well aware that once a pattern of payment is established , it is difficult to coax customers out of that pattern . |
| 2 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 3 | This propensity to seek damages out of all proportion to the alleged negligence must be stopped ; otherwise the time will inevitably come , and soon , when promising young accountants will not be attracted by partnership in accounting firms , as they will not wish to put their personal wealth at risk . |
| 4 | Providing that there was no threat to their members ' jobs , trades unions felt that they had a free hand in wage negotiations , often seeming to pluck numbers out of thin air and try it on with employers . |
| 5 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |