Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She could make a unique work of art out of the simplest dance , as fragments filmed in the 1920s show . |
| 4 | Each child could have a drink of water out of the shared cup , and could take a small piece of biscuit . |
| 5 | He goes to the Chinese desk , and takes a sheet of paper out of the Mexican paper-rack . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 10 | , 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |