Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 2 | As well as emptying the prostatic ducts , orgasm also leads to temporary increase in the blood supply to the prostate , which can lead to a flushing out of the infecting organism . |
| 3 | I might add , very briefly , I mean this is a spin off of the traditional aircraft situation , where they 're being used |
| 4 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 5 | In ‘ Dog and Duck Hotel ’ he captures again the bleak , brave lives of people scraping a living out of the Australian Outback . |
| 6 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 7 | I suppose this could be a flare up of the last one . |
| 8 | Miguel chased a chicken out of the open window , and went across to his wooden desk and makeshift filing cabinets . |
| 9 | But the fact that the legislature refrained from creating a jurisdiction to make orders against a third party under section 6(3) and ( 4 ) does not justify a cutting down of the ordinary meaning of section 6(2) . |
| 10 | Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl . |
| 11 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them . |
| 13 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the European packaging manufacturer has included the gross preference share dividends on the UK redeemable preference shares in finance charges , rather than as a distribution out of the net profits after tax and minority interests . |
| 14 | He was liable to forget to buy birthday or Christmas presents ( one year when he resolved to mark Christmas properly , he bought everyone gift vouchers because he could not decide what to get ) , but would make a gift out of the blue for no other reason than that it was a nice day . |
| 15 | Changes in rights of audience may well result in a slimming down of the practising Bar . |
| 16 | A Day Out of the Ordinary . |
| 17 | C.P.V.E. , T.V.E.I. , G.C.S.E. , A/S levels will lead to a breaking down of the traditional patterns of provision at 16+ . |
| 18 | In human play there is concentration on preparation for social life through symbolic play , that is play where there is a breaking down of the limiting distinction between the real and the imagined . |
| 19 | She was getting a kick out of the whole thing , I 'm sure of it : her big cow eyes were bright and she was all breathy when she talked about it . |
| 20 | Sabrina always got a kick out of the swivelling bookcase ; it was like something out of a Boris Karloff film . |
| 21 | I made a wad out of the young leaves and twigs and tried to masticate slowly . |
| 22 | In Wall Street journals now speak of an irreversible decline of the middleman — the suave dealmaker who carves a chunk out of the real workers ' profits by flitting with bright notions from door to door . |
| 23 | He took a very pretty and rather commodious cottage-residence at Southall Green , Middlesex , about a mile out of the high road to Uxbridge , and exactly 10 miles from Tyburn Gate . |
| 24 | " She was letting a visitor out of the front door and she waved at me gaily . |
| 25 | Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) . |
| 26 | He drew the conclusion from this that the riot ‘ came like a bolt out of the blue ’ ( Guardian , 21 November 1985 ) . |
| 27 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 28 | There is , of course , no doubt but that the court has power to disallow items of costs sought to be retained by a mortgagee out of the mortgaged property . |
| 29 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 30 | is er a choice out of the main course is a choice out of two and everything else is set . |