Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In business it is not uncommon for a seller ( X ) to sell large quantities of a commodity to a buyer ( Y Ltd. ) in the knowledge that Y Ltd. will be able to pay for them only out of the proceeds of re-selling them . |
| 2 | This presumption can be rebutted by any words indicating that the preferential dividend for a year is to be payable only out of the profits of that year . |
| 3 | They are ‘ normal events ’ , arising almost naturally out of the circumstances of the employment relationship itself : ‘ A wildcat can break out in perfectly normal conditions , and the structure of the relations between employers , trade unions , governments and workers guarantees that some strikes will grow from small beginnings into mighty struggles ’ ( p.241 ) . |
| 4 | The sun was high and bright as he dropped gently out of the hills towards the vale , faintly misted with vapour , and saw in the far distance before him the mole-hill of Ruthyn , hunched and veiled in the smoke of its house-fires , a delicate blue flower in the sparkling folded green , with the giant hogback of Moel Famau towering beyond . |
| 5 | When by 1292 John of York had become too old and infirm to perform the duties of his Forest office , Edward I granted him a pension of ‘ three pence daily out of the issues of the forest , at the hands of the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and six cartloads of firewood in the said forest by view and delivery of the foresters there ’ . |
| 6 | Obviously they blamed the poor performance of students for the 15% and their ability to get the best out of the students for the 47% . |
| 7 | About his mastery of the mysteries of driving strategy and deriving the best out of the materials at hand , there is unanimous consent . |
| 8 | A believer in market forces , she differs from Thatcher in her interventionism , and it is a safe bet that what the French euphemistically call ‘ positive actions ’ will be brought to bear to shake the best out of the likes of Thomson . |
| 9 | A fine judge of a player , a skilled diplomatist , he has secured many good players for Northampton at very little cost to the club , whilst his tact and cheery optimism has resulted in his getting the best out of the men at his command . ’ |
| 10 | With the growth of towns , the coming of the Industrial Revolution , and the improvements in surface transportation , the pattern in all but the staple industries changed and the whole industrial and commercial structure grew ( and grows ) increasingly more diverse and complex , to the extent that it moves ever more out of the realms of the local researcher into those of the economic or social historian working at national , or even international , level . |
| 11 | A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years . |
| 12 | The theme for this seminar arose directly out of the discussions at the previous meeting on Integration and Immigration . |
| 13 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |
| 14 | On Kenya 's border with Tanzania are the internationally known Serengeti and Maasai Mara reserves , where the annual migration of millions of wildebeeste and zebras to warmer northern parts forms a wondrous spectacle straight out of the pages of ‘ Out of Africa ’ . |
| 15 | Take Castell Coch , a Victorian fantasy straight out of the pages of ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ , situated just north of Cardiff . |
| 16 | Her family history is equally dramatic and could almost have come straight out of the pages of a Barbara Cartland novel . |
| 17 | Twin beds were a put-off ; a typically American idea straight out of the movies by way of the Hayes censorship office . |
| 18 | The larvae can dive straight out of the grains of sand into your skin , and for weeks you itch and get blisters as the larvae spiral round and round just beneath the skin , leaving patterns behind . |
| 19 | If the shares are purchased wholly or partly out of the proceeds of a fresh issue and the amount of the proceeds is less than the nominal value of the buy-back shares , the difference must be transferred to the capital redemption reserve ( s170(2) ) . |
| 20 | It 's an aircraft which has been rarely out of the headlines in it 's 25 years with the RAF . |
| 21 | The hare came very slowly out of the shadows of the tunnel . |
| 22 | The correlation between such unlikely indicators and target markets was not discovered by accident , and marketers who want to get the most out of the results of the 1991 census , which will shortly become available , should be thinking about how they will do it now . |
| 23 | They gained little out of the nets in Jamaica and have not been able to face any bowling since Tuesday other than the spinners and gentle medium-pacers . |
| 24 | Another thought struck her , as she showered and peered blearily out of the windows at the translucent blue and gold morning on the horizon . |
| 25 | Blowers studies Backdraft 's dynamic video sleeve , depicting Russell striding manfully out of the flames after rescuing a child . |
| 26 | Many intending emigrants cheerfully imagine that once they have settled themselves in a dream villa overseas , they are safely out of the clutches of the UK taxman . |
| 27 | And just to make sure that everything was fair and above-board , the computer , like the facilities for tapping phones , would be located at the law courts , safely out of the hands of the police . |