Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont did not eat their words out of a cavalier regard for the truth and a penchant for duplicity at election times . |
| 2 | With the help of a co-operative credit analyst who is three months out of an English degree , we package a stunning little credit that sweeps through the loan committees without even a flesh wound . |
| 3 | This is because they send data in 1,024 byte packets instead of a one-byte stream . |
| 4 | The exodus appeared to reflect Croat efforts to purge Muslims from Croat-controlled districts ahead of a possible agreement to divide the Bosnia into Croat , Serb and Muslim ministates . |
| 5 | He sent an urgent appeal by fax to union general secretaries ahead of a Conservative news conference that day at which Mr Major and Mr Howard , Employment Secretary , claimed unions had been told if they ‘ shut up ’ today would be ‘ pay day ’ . |
| 6 | I saw some pictures recently of a famous movie star with a lift … frightening . |
| 7 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 8 | The ruff can be almost any shade of cream or red to black , and includes ear-tufts often of a different colour . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the Allies had suffered 252,000 casualties out of a total commitment of 480,000 . |
| 10 | There were only 18 arrests for minor public order offences out of a 40,000 crowd . |
| 11 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Phil tells Howard one day , as they walk along the street eating fish and chips out of a Greek newspaper , ‘ I think it 's probably going to be the spitting image of you . ’ |
| 12 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 13 | But the besieged British of Ulster have to make do with liberal platitudes instead of a tough security police . |
| 14 | The music generally alternated between sophisticated 16th Century Spanish pieces mostly of a sacred character , with delightful singing from Sara Stowe and able accompaniments on recorders , harp , guitars and hurdy gurdy ; and native material of Bolivian origin , albeit with Spanish conquistador influence evident . |
| 15 | This sombre event , which was reported in the London Times , may have stimulated the construction a few years later of a strange mausoleum in Paisley . |
| 16 | Repeating submissions made in December 1991 , it is further suggested that the requirements for a property to be let for 26 weeks out of a 52-week period — before an individual is allowed a deduction in respect of interest on a loan to purchase the property — is too restrictive in the present state of the property market . |
| 17 | A woman who has been in an employer 's scheme for 17 years out of a total working life of 34 years will expect her employer to pay exactly half of her additional pension . |
| 18 | Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings . |
| 19 | The incident follows the death less than two weeks ago of a marine warrant officer taking part in the same exercise . |
| 20 | READERS of New Scientist will be familiar with the sensational discovery two years ago of a young Australopithecus female frozen in a glacier atop Mt . |
| 21 | In the Midlands he took a tram in Birmingham : These were years then of a heightened dissatisfaction with our towns and cities , and every-day lives and attitudes of the British people ; the social history of the 1930s is one of bitter years ( Branson and Heinemann , 1971 ) . |
| 22 | Only days ahead of a general election in Iran , Teheran has taken a strident and uncompromising stance against the Mujahideen Khalq opposition group and its patron , Iraq . |
| 23 | For these reasons , and because it is so easy to change the screen size of a shot by zooming in or out without stopping for a cut , the zoom ( and the pan ) are often used by amateurs instead of a straight cut . |
| 24 | Banks and building societies have been strenuously selling such products in recent weeks ahead of a possible Budget ban . |
| 25 | In addition , the conditions OUT OF , specifying any n conditions out of a larger number , and BETWEEN . |
| 26 | Now I need four pounds and so how am I gon na get four pounds out of a ten pound note ? |
| 27 | The sensation in her vulva was quite pleasurable , but not to be compared with the quiet delight of teasing people 's thoughts and feelings out of an unfamiliar language . |
| 28 | The auctioneer , however , does not warrant the vendor 's title in the case of a sale of specific goods ( or unascertained goods out of a specific bulk ) which the purchaser knows do not belong to the auctioneer . |
| 29 | As with section 6 , it is important to remember the difference between unascertained goods out of a specific bulk ( e.g. Howell v. Coupland ) and purely generic goods . |
| 30 | Equally , a contract for the sale of unascertained goods out of a specific bulk will not be frustrated by the perishing of the bulk if this occurs after risk has passed to the buyer . |