Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor . |
| 2 | They built their homes out of the materials of the river bank itself . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 4 | In higher education a new central body is proposed to take control over polytechnics out of the hands of local authorities . |
| 5 | He will even attempt to take bones out of the mouths of our two German Shepherd dogs , Nikki and Sheba . |
| 6 | The second circumstance is that planning legislation has given the Secretary of State the power to take applications out of the hands of local planning authorities and to decide them himself . |
| 7 | He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick . |
| 8 | " A Great Russian " put out a flysheet in St Petersburg in July 1861 which argued that " The educated classes must take the conduct of affairs out of the hands of the incapable government and into their own " ; otherwise , " patriots will be compelled to call upon the people to do what the educated classes refuse to do " . |
| 9 | Reform might come from Parliament simply taking the calculation of damages out of the hands of juries , and allowing judges to develop reasonably predictable scales for assessment after the jury has indicated whether damages in the particular case should be substantial , moderate , nominal or contemptuous . |
| 10 | Then he 'd got some blankets out of the chests under the bunks at the end of the boat , turned off the torch he 'd found in another cupboard , stretched himself out and gone to sleep . |
| 11 | In the larval stages , caddisflies build themselves cases out of the materials of the river bed . |
| 12 | A practical solution is for the purchaser to pay all debts collected on behalf of the vendor into a designated deposit account and to satisfy the excluded creditors out of the proceeds of that account . |
| 13 | A labyrinth of caves known as the ‘ Sassi ’ or ‘ rocks ’ , is hewn in tiers out of the flanks of a deep ravine and linked by a warren of stairways and alleys . |
| 14 | His successor , Majorian , apparently overthrew this arrangement , pushing the Burgundians out of the environs of Lyons in 458 . |
| 15 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 16 | When the police regrouped with the intention of holding a railway bridge , pickets constructed blazing barricades out of the remnants of scrapped cars , telegraph poles and a portakabin to prevent a second advance . |
| 17 | He let the rabbits out of the marshes of Kelfazin and they multiplied everywhere . |
| 18 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 19 | Only a good monitoring system would allow judgements to be made about the possibility of moving long-stay patients out of the asylums on a large scale . |
| 20 | BRITISH AEROSPACE believes that by taking decisions out of the hands of the pilot it can reduce the amount of noise that an aircraft makes . |
| 21 | The most coward and yet everybody you spoke to s s thought that was a good thing , because they believed everything they saw on television right until the girl that was the actress that cried on television and said he pulled the plugs out of the incubators for the babies , and she was an actress and yet that was head headline news . |
| 22 | The Stamp Tax was introduced in 1712 and kept newspapers out of the hands of the masses for more than 100 years until arguments about the role of the press in a free society forced its abolition in 1855 , and the popular press really took off . |
| 23 | They are proposing a scheme for keeping foreign , defence and home-office issues out of the hands of EC institutions and subject to control by European summits . |
| 24 | To her alarm the young man immediately straightens up , takes his hands out of the pockets of his black leather jacket , and comes over to her car , stooping to bring his head level with the window . |
| 25 | FEMALE whale song will be used today — weather permitting — in an attempt to entice six male sperm whales out of the confines of Scapa Flow . |
| 26 | She had disappeared into one of the bedrooms and was dragging clothes out of the drawers of a chest . |
| 27 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 28 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 29 | Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years . |
| 30 | Supply would be regulated by a system of government licences analogous to those already in force for tobacco and alcohol ( and which would serve , among other things , to keep drugs out of the hands of children ) , backed by strict policing and heavy penalties . |