Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness .
2 The van spun off the road into a school fence and trainee decorator Wayne , of Marrick Road , Park End , was catapulted out of the rear doors .
3 Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses .
4 What was in fact happening , as the wizard knew , was that as the abused spirit of Bel-Shamharoth sank through the deeper chthonic planes his brooding spirit was being sucked out of the very stones into the region which , according to the discworld 's most reliable priests , was both under the ground and Somewhere Else .
5 Second , analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them .
6 Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations .
7 One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force .
8 ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’
9 He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’
10 Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements .
11 A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components :
12 In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements :
13 In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) .
14 This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse .
15 For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter .
16 And despite ( or perhaps because of ) all the loans and all the aid , the net effect is that billions of dollars have actually moved out of the poor countries and into the rich countries .
17 Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands .
18 Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands .
19 B and L said that the sums the receivers properly ought to pay themselves could be met out of the liquid assets in the receivers ' hands .
20 Most of the Arabs have stayed out of the fratricidal wars of the victorious Afghan factions in Kabul .
21 Their significance is not only in terms of the group experience but also in terms of the wider society , for it is these ideas born out of the street-corner groups , doing nothing , that are to a large extent the ‘ juvenile delinquency ’ of the police and criminologists .
22 The kitchen table was covered with homework , dictionaries , ring notebooks and ‘ All you Need to Know about the Russian Revolution ’ pulled out of the huge pieces of luggage Henrietta took every day to school , books used to erect tottering towers wherever the family was next about to eat .
23 A man stepped out of the distant trees , braced his legs apart , hunched slightly and pointed a pistol at him .
24 Unwillingly she marshalled them into order , beginning with the moment when she and Stephen had stepped out of the French windows , apprehensive because Timothy Gedge was in the garden .
25 At best , he would now only send fresh generals against the Christian force ; but even after El Cid 's death , much of the heart had gone out of the Moorish invaders .
26 Eric Bristow was knocked out of the British Darts Open in London last night by Charlie Holdaway , a 28-year-old furniture assembler from Isleworth , Middlesex .
27 But with India there could be no ‘ consolidation ’ ; its hundreds of millions were , necessarily , left out of the cosy computations of the Imperialists ; and its membership of a community of independent yet united states was beyond the power of imagination to conceive .
28 A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees .
29 Having been forced out of the eastern fjords in endless rainswept misery we headed for Mývatn , Gođafoss and Akureyri , three attractions in the north of Iceland .
30 Indeed as Neuhaus has recognised ( 1986 ) it is precisely because religion has been forced out of the central corridors of power in America that the New Religious Right has managed to stride in with such urgency and rage .
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