Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the political response to a rapid deterioration in the economy implies a greater probability of a coup d'état or a battening down of the hatches by the government . |
| 2 | Market reforms have revived a left-wing opposition out of the ashes of the outlawed Communist Party , says Roy Medvedev |
| 3 | Airtours THE WORLD IN ITS LAP Rumours of a price war are unlikely to take the wind out of the sails of a tour operator that has not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but increased market share as well |
| 4 | In an effort to keep weight out of the eyes of the yacht , the stemhead roller may be unshipped when not in use and stowed away further aft . |
| 5 | One might well think that a word can not both label a property or a relation revealed to intuition and its meaning be a construct out of the meanings of other expressions . |
| 6 | The distribution of titles , however , was very much in the interests of a king who was about to lead his nobility in war , and in any case the king intended to finance the war out of the proceeds of taxation rather than the income from royal estates . |
| 7 | When the property is sold , the amount of the debt is paid to the plaintiff out of the proceeds of sale . |
| 8 | It would have to be sold , of course , and her mind boggled a little at the clearing up of the accumulations of a lifetime Sara would have to do . |
| 9 | After the opening up of the borders between East and West Germany in 1989 the project became much easier . |
| 10 | The combination of these influences has encouraged the opening up of the airwaves to competition . |
| 11 | We fished stuff out of the trashcans in Washington Square Park , a sandwich , an apple intact but for the missing bite , then to the Superette for nickels and dimes . |
| 12 | The government has decided to take power over sex education out of the hands of local authorities and give it to school governors and parents . |
| 13 | They were willing now to start drawing the water out of the bottoms of Charles Roe 's old workings i.e. below Deep Level random . |
| 14 | The land , particularly where it was peat-covered , sank as the water was removed and thus drainage involved lifting water out of the fields into high-level drains and rivers . |
| 15 | For most people in Britain , the Medical Research Council 's study , published in February 1990 , revealing the strong possibility that fathers who worked in the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria had passed leukaemia to their children in their sperm , moved speculation out of the realms of the circumstantial into that of the confirmed . |
| 16 | The reply was , ‘ I fight to recover the King out of the hands of a popish malignant company . |
| 17 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
| 18 | When the Duke of Montrose arranged for his own appointment as bailie of the regality of Glasgow in the winter of 1714/15 , in order to prevent the office from being obtained by his rival the Duke of Argyll , the object was not to make money out of the profits of the court but to increase the duke 's influence in the city of Glasgow . |
| 19 | ‘ Bloody lucky ’ — he spoke like a harp out of the strings of half-constructed fabric — ‘ that this old Schliemann-Hoffer has already caught its finger quota for today . |
| 20 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Bring back Tebbit THERE is just time for the Tories to take the direction of the election out of the hands of a lot of Central Office schoolboys and to make Norman Tebbit their supremo . |
| 21 | It was the writing down of the poems of Homer and Hesiod that led scholars to ask , for the first time apparently : ‘ How far was the information about their gods and heroes literally true ? ’ . |
| 22 | Macura claimed that talks were taking place in Bosnia with the Serbian Democratic Party and the small Organization of Moslems in Bosnia ( MBO ) , the latter pulling out of the talks on Aug. 29 . |
| 23 | The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design . |
| 24 | Unisys Corp , ICL and DEC were all very happy to see Unix out of the hands of AT&T/NCR . |
| 25 | It is perhaps arguable , though , that we should recognize structures based on assignment of equation where the two intensional elements are properties ; thus a sentence such as small is beautiful might be represented as : ( 36 ) small is beautiful On the other hand , it may be that the human mind only represents such an equational assignment to itself by first making an entity-concept out of the ideas on each side . |
| 26 | Starke was still talking , taking bits of paper out of the drawers in the desk and showing them to Grout , but Steven was n't looking or listening . |
| 27 | Wilson succeeded Gaitskell as leader and proved himself a much more astute politician , able to make considerable capital out of the scandals of Macmillan 's last years ( the Profumo affair , Rachmanism ) . |
| 28 | As when a swarme of Gnats at euentide Out of the fennes of Allan do arise , Their murmuring small trompets sounden wide , Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies , That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies ; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds , and noyous iniuries , |
| 29 | The artist may live passionately through every brush-stroke , but the weaver can not — she needs a clear head and a sense of the goal before her if she is to make order and substance out of the strands with which she works . |
| 30 | And I would willingly put it on another account , that the dumping of so much steel in the bowels of men , during our Civil Wars , hath hindered their digging of copper out of the entrails of the earth ; looping these peaceable times will encourage to the resuming thereof " |