Example sentences of "[adv] out [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go back to the car , thinking maybe Mr Azul 's only out for a short while . |
| 2 | By the time he reached Tyberton , which was only three miles from the camp , he was sweating , for the sun was shining fiercely out of a clear sky . |
| 3 | The world seemed to tilt and spin and fold itself inside out in a volcanic eruption of pleasure … |
| 4 | He went all out at a new piece , rushing into it with lots of enthusiasm and wrong notes , trying to make it sound like the finished piece as soon as possible . |
| 5 | So out of a large quantity of fuel this blast furnace gas , only a little bit will actually burn to give you heat . |
| 6 | Thus out of a whole range of ‘ sexual ’ acts where the balance of consent versus coercion is at least ambiguous , the criminal law draws a line demarcating those where physical force is used or threatened from those where any other kind of power is utilized to overcome a female 's resistance . |
| 7 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 8 | The house sits snugly , 275 feet above sea level , with a view southwards out over a wide expanse of undulating country to hills beyond . |
| 9 | The Oxford Stadium was the venue for the Pall Mall final which brought the best out of a local dog . |
| 10 | And despite the suits , which give them the air of ex-cons , just out from a time-warping jail sentence , they also seem younger than their 50 years apiece . |
| 11 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 12 | the monarchy are non political and therefore , when they choose to speak it 's usually out of a genuine concern for that problem , it 's not for popularity or personal gain because they are there already and , I think that is quite important when po politicians tend to do good it 's usually to get votes . |
| 13 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 14 | Partly in the course of his business , partly out of a personal interest , Julian Hayman had amassed over the years a remarkably comprehensive archive of criminals of every kind . |
| 15 | So it was partly out of an illogical sense of obligation that she began to read his book on Aurae Phiala . |
| 16 | He leaned and peered a little , but not from any weakness of the eyes , rather out of a fixed suspicion that caused him to study with narrow attention all who came near him , and especially strangers . |
| 17 | Our music has the same origin and function as any work song — it arises spontaneously out of a particular movement and is then used to lead , inspire and increase the rhythmical flow so that the movement is performed with minimum effort and maximum pleasure . |
| 18 | Clanricarde published long statements in which he denied the allegations and explained that he had become involved with the Hancock family 's legal arrangements purely out of a good-natured wish to be of assistance . |
| 19 | The tide was far out over a wide plain of sand but you could see its many colours silvering towards those reaches where sky and horizon misted together . |
| 20 | Becky Blandford is now out of a 4-day coma and able to talk to staff , according to officals at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . |
| 21 | Ding Dong Bell is another good nursery rhyme , and for this make a well out of a round piece of sponge cake laying on its side . |
| 22 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 23 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 24 | Fiction arises here out of a lively discontent with systems and systematisers . |
| 25 | We drive through mountains and then out along a dull coast road . |
| 26 | No one who has undergone the traumatic and humiliating experience of being bundled unceremoniously out of a senior position will deny that . |
| 27 | Not only was it light , warm and washable , it also made grown men , previously never out of a brown jumper and khaki woollen breeches , dress for the hills in something pink and fluffy . |
| 28 | Though it says it still has $1m in the bank , it is currently out for a second round , believed to be in the neighbourhood of $4.5m , which would make it the most heavily backed venture in the field . |
| 29 | Quinn had been washed and dressed since sunup , and that day there really was a sun to see , shining brightly out of a blue sky with only a hint of cool in the air . |