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

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1 Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours .
2 This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows .
3 Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying .
4 She could make a unique work of art out of the simplest dance , as fragments filmed in the 1920s show .
5 Each child could have a drink of water out of the shared cup , and could take a small piece of biscuit .
6 He goes to the Chinese desk , and takes a sheet of paper out of the Mexican paper-rack .
7 It also made a pattern of sense out of the minor ordeals through which he had passed , and put him on his mettle for the future .
8 WARRING factions in Bosnia ordered a ceasefire yesterday and agreed to open three routes for the safe passage of civilians out of the stricken capital Sarajevo .
9 Just after this , the creature went into its death throes , and the impression of death as something dark and fierce , pulling all that was left of life out of the little body , was horrible indeed .
10 I must also say that I resent the tendency of the Act to line the pockets of lawyers out of the tragic situations of families and children in trouble .
11 Indeed , Fleury felt quite like a sculptor as he worked away and he thought that it must feel something like this to carve an object of beauty out of the primeval rock .
12 ‘ You buy me a pack of cigarettes out of the fifteen hundred . ’
13 It is important to remember the distinction explained in the last chapter between purely generic unascertained goods ( e.g. ‘ 500 tons of wheat ’ ) and unascertained goods from a specific bulk ( e.g. ‘ 500 tons of wheat out of the 1,000 tons in the vessel Neptune ’ ) .
14 , Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council has announced plans to take more than 3,000 acres of land out of the green belt in order to facilitate economic regeneration in the area .
15 Him and a couple of others out of the same mould .
16 ‘ We were also able to change the specification of one of our products in a way that is beneficial for them and for us and has taken several hundred thousand pounds of cost out of the combined operations .
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