Example sentences of "[adv] out [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Huy looked thoughtfully out through the curtains of the litter at the night sky , bright in the silence with the light of a million stars .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 Powerful , yet emotive , and sometimes melodramatic , The Power of One goes all out for the heartstrings with the weight of justice and the inevitability of history on its side .
6 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 .
7 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 ’ .
8 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% .
9 About his mastery of the mysteries of driving strategy and deriving the best out of the materials at hand , there is unanimous consent .
10 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 .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The theme for this seminar arose directly out of the discussions at the previous meeting on Integration and Immigration .
15 Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed .
16 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 ’ .
17 Take Castell Coch , a Victorian fantasy straight out of the pages of ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ , situated just north of Cardiff .
18 Her family history is equally dramatic and could almost have come straight out of the pages of a Barbara Cartland novel .
19 Twin beds were a put-off ; a typically American idea straight out of the movies by way of the Hayes censorship office .
20 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 .
21 They drove huge concrete piers ( totalling 13 kilometres in length ) straight out from the beaches into the shallow Baltic .
22 He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle .
23 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) ) .
24 They loved the sound of swishing the sheaves made as they were stooked , the clash of the tresses of hard grain against grain , the sight of the rich ears of corn leaning delicately out on the shoulders of the stooks .
25 It 's an aircraft which has been rarely out of the headlines in it 's 25 years with the RAF .
26 The hare came very slowly out of the shadows of the tunnel .
27 There is a conference centre somewhere out in the wilds of nowhere in Derbyshire which I drove past coming back from Buxton .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 According to what it says in books , you have to tread carefully right out on the edges of each step , where they are fixed against the wall .
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