Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] of [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 One of the fond hopes for the tertiary colleges established in Sheffield in 1988 , by the bringing together of sixth form education and the further education colleges , was that the new 16–19 provision would draw upon the strengths of the partners .
2 Unix System Laboratories , whose SVR4.2 nQue licensed as its Unix system , reportedly has right of first refusal as an OEM channel .
3 Two members of the Under-21 squad — Forbes Johnson of Falkirk and Craig Burley of Chelsea — have had to pull out of next week 's game against Malta at Tannadice .
4 Jackson — forced to pull out of last year 's World Championship final when he suddenly suffered shoulder spasms minutes before the race — declared : ‘ I wo n't make the same mistakes again .
5 Hignett , lined up to share the new-ball bowling with Nigel Peel , had to pull out of last Sunday 's MCC Trophy game with Cumberland due to a rib injury .
6 Alton sent two teams to the competition , made up of first and second year students .
7 One author missed out of last week 's round-up was Tom Jaine , editor of the Good Food Guide , who was named Restaurant Writer of the Year .
8 She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too .
9 I dropped out of sixth form because of a young Frenchman with green eyes .
10 Bulls argue there are increasing signs that America 's manufacturers may be pulling out of last year 's recession , when the whole economy kept growing only because of the dominant service industries .
11 As they were phased out of first line units Londons went mostly to 4 Coastal Operational Training Unit , but a few passed to the Flying-Boat Training Squadron ( FBTS ) at Stranraer .
12 With Gilleece crashing out of third place on the last stage , Greer leapfrogged to the top of the championship table for the first time and now heads to round six in Cavan next Sunday with a 14-point advantage over the Belfast dentist .
13 A great grey Victorian workhouse looking place , with men hanging out of third storey doorways , pulling up sacks of cereal on pulleys .
14 It presents a state-of-the-art survey of the major fields that have developed out of 19th century chemistry : cosmochemistry ; geochemistry ; biochemistry ; and molecular biology .
15 The charges arose out of last summer 's internationally publicised ‘ sting ’ operation when FBI undercover agents in California 's silicon Valley formed a bogus company and posed as electronics dealers with trade secrets to sell ( New Scientist 1 July 1982 p 8–9 ) .
16 Literally billions have been smuggled out of Third World countries to Western banks , often in suitcases .
17 Lyons has pulled out of next week 's Veterans ' World Cup in Italy to take charge of a team which competes in an Asian League as well as the Asian Cup .
18 Overall I thought the gearchange acceptable but , as with all models , with a very notchy feel and an unpleasant stickiness coming out of fifth .
19 My Series III jumps out of first gear on over-run .
20 The gearbox in my 1973 Series III two and a quarter petrol is noisy and jumps out of third gear .
21 Kexby village , strung out along the main road , consists mainly of 19th and 20th century houses , but Manor Farm which stands not far from the bridge is an 18th century building .
22 ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said .
23 Carpet sales are running ahead of last year .
24 BRITISH LIONS stand-off Stuart Barnes was ruled out of first Test contention in New Zealand this morning by the intervention of his half-back partner Robert Jones .
25 Then there is Test no.8 Tim Gavin who is making slow progress after being ruled out of last year 's World Cup because of damaged knee ligaments .
26 NORTHERN Ireland captain Alan McDonald breathed a sigh of relief today when it was revealed that he will not be ruled out of next week 's World Cup match against Latvia in Riga .
27 ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that .
28 Something , done a robbery at nine thirty two precisely , a lady did er actually walk out of next door 's house
29 The leg spinner Peter Sleep , the all-rounder Tom Moody and Carl Rackemann have been left out of next week 's squad for the one-day tournament against Sri Lanka and Pakistan .
30 You have to get out of first and second gear quickly to get the best out of the 325 .
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