Example sentences of "was [verb] out of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 2 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Second , analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them . |
| 5 | Analysis was carried out of the 1988/9 housing investment programme ( HIP ) statements for each authority . |
| 6 | But it was considered out of the conversational court . |
| 7 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 8 | They made a bit more fuss soon afterwards when Erich Honecker , the former East German leader , was whisked out of a Soviet military hospital in the east and flown to Moscow , beyond the reach of German prosecutors . |
| 9 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
| 10 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 11 | The square tower of the church was built out of the dun-coloured limestone called foinstone and so were all the cottages and Chesney Hall itself . |
| 12 | All moisture was drawn out of the dead before they could rot . |
| 13 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 14 | The fluency with which he himself wrote about this period was born out of a particular requirement . |
| 15 | When it was easy to reach this man whose spirit was born out of the best of the desert traditions . |
| 16 | Secondly , the DTB system was born out of the political necessity to involve the small regional stock exchanges in Germany . |
| 17 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
| 18 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 19 | When he finally spoke , it was as if his voice was coming out of a large , brunette bush . |
| 20 | He was coming out of the rough and flying . |
| 21 | It seems that the Battler and Rico let fly at somebody who was coming out of the back door of the Regal Arms . |
| 22 | Not with the head injuries , no , it was a group of the and he was coming out of the just coming out some pub down in Conasquay and he was these lads were all singing , apparently this is what happened anyway , they were all singing and you know making merry and he said , what are you all so cheerful about or something ? |
| 23 | On one occasion a confused patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage harangued nurses and caused chaos on the ward until she was wheeled out of the high dependency unit for a cigarette , after which she settled down . |
| 24 | However in October 1974 this message — addressed to a former inmate — was smuggled out of the infamous prison , Cuatro Alamos , on the inside of a cigarette packet . |
| 25 | But when she saw what he was taking out of the inside pocket of the overcoat , she felt faint with fright . |
| 26 | Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles . |
| 27 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 28 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 29 | Two weeks ago he was forced out of a reserve match complaining of cold feet . |
| 30 | Labour leader John Smith , in Question Time exchanges on freedom of information , demanded to know the cost to Britain of the ‘ fiasco ’ of Black Wednesday , when the pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |