Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all the schools responded to the request ( 34 out of the 36 liaison group schools and 30 out of the 33 second phase schools ) , but some of these did not provide all the information asked for . |
| 2 | The Company had a share capital of £30,000 , and six out of the ten directors were from Yorkshire ! |
| 3 | Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results . |
| 4 | As late as 1977 the biggest five firms in aerospace , office equipment ( including computers ) , scientific and photographic equipment were still American , as were the biggest four in paper and wood , the biggest three in vehicles , the biggest two in electronics and rubber , and three out of the biggest five in petroleum , industrial equipment and food . |
| 5 | There are three pines outside the house which spring tall , slender and black out of the watery green grass and are silhouetted against an angry battleship grey sky … |
| 6 | They are all over 30 except one ( but then Chinese tend to look so young that that is difficult to believe ) , and 9 out of the 26 are women . |
| 7 | From the five equations , and the factor market equations ( 7–1 ) , we can solve for X , Y and four out of the five prices ( p x , p y , r , w x , w y ) , the other being the numeraire . |
| 8 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 9 | More than half Labour 's M P's are Union sponsored , a hundred and forty , being the highest since 1935 , and eighteen out of the twenty in the shadow cabinet are also Union sponsored and their paymasters will expect plenty in return . |
| 10 | The survey showed that all the 46 county councils England and Wales , and seven out of the nine regional councils in Scotland , have switched to peat alternatives . |