Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The setting up of the Select Committee to look at the whole under-fives area
2 Motion made , and Question proposed , That a further sum not exceeding £1,680,076,000 be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to defray the charges that will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1992 for expenditure by the Department of Social Security on non-contributory retirement pensions , Christmas bonus payments to pensioners , pensions etc. , for disablement or death arising out of war or service in the armed forces after 2nd September 1939 and on sundry other services , on attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , severe disablement allowance , mobility allowance ; on pensions gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes ; on income support , transitional payment , child benefit , one parent benefit , family credit , and on the vaccine damage payment scheme .
3 Because the new financial year is starting when the estimates are first submitted to the House , and final approval is ( then ) some months off , statutory authority for issues out of the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure during this period is provided by a system of lump-sum votes on account .
4 Even the promise of a pay freeze for Ministers was not enough to take the heat out of the effective pay cut for millions .
5 Then yesterday morning the wind dodged into the southwest and thaw slithered across the land , and , suddenly , improbably , out of the thawing wind came the snow .
6 They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors .
7 Then out of the watery mist came a low call and a light flashed once , twice , three times .
8 The square tower of the church was built out of the dun-coloured limestone called foinstone and so were all the cottages and Chesney Hall itself .
9 From out of the terrible confusion came a different voice , a gentle voice , a voice that understood .
10 Writing began out of the tremendous need to understand why those of us who formed the early groups were suddenly seeing our lives and the history we had learned through new eyes .
11 Cold , I descended out of the narrow cleft to seek out more sport .
12 Secondly , the DTB system was born out of the political necessity to involve the small regional stock exchanges in Germany .
13 Rachel Whiteread constructs concrete images out of the invisible space surrounding everyday objects .
14 Even buildings whose shorter periodicity put them out of the vulnerable category suffered ; the lengthy shaking made them progressively less brittle , in effect lengthening their period until they vibrated in resonance with the quake , at which point many began to collapse .
15 In the majority of houses there are two different types of hot water : one which is in continuous circulation around the radiators of the central heating system , and one which comes out of the hot water taps in the bathroom and kitchen .
16 He walked quickly out of the bare office followed by a speechless Charles .
17 The widow gathered her children and ran out of the front door seeking protection from another Bengali family thirty yards across the court .
18 Instantly out of the front door charged a man a foot smaller than Luke , but with a barrel-chest as big .
19 And can the virtue that thus went out of the spiritual reality called England ever be restored ?
20 The outer room was already full of readers but people were being turned out of the inner room to make way for the meeting .
21 If the search problem in speech is indeed such that A* starts to behave like breadth-first , then the only way out of the combinatorial explosion produced by breadth-first search is to keep the search tree small .
22 The scheme grew out of the successful campaign to save the Thaya valley , on the Czech-Austrian border , from hydro-electric development .
23 Out of the short-wave receiver comes a scratchy-hum , and for a few bleary seconds I think it 's a radio station closed down for the night .
24 Meanwhile the argument between the vegetarians and the farmers over who 'd chickened out of the original challenge goes on .
25 ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ the materials thrown out of the exploding star went to form further stars — like our Sun , and the planets — like the Earth .
26 Even opting out of the social chapter to undercut the core on labour costs will not ultimately compensate for complete isolation .
27 However , the recommendation that some regional colleges and colleges of education should become universities was not implemented , nor was the proposal that the colleges of education should move out of the public sector to become closely associated with the universities .
28 ‘ Her fourth child is paid out of the public purse to pursue a theatrical career and assorted bachelors . ’
29 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 ?
30 We do n't think it right that a 150-year-old traditional English drink should be legislated out of the English language to satisfy the monopoly interests of the French champagne growers . ’
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