Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounted men in ones and twos appeared suddenly from the cover of trees , or out of folds in the ground . |
| 2 | They will be able to give you a practical demonstration and support with an after sales service that offers a same day or out of hours call . |
| 3 | I 'm continually dra drained my I seem to get tired , or out of sorts |
| 4 | ( c ) Benefits The individual receives or is entitled to receive , at any time , any benefit provided or to be provided out of that income or out of monies which are or will be available for the purpose by reason of the effect or successive effects of the associated operations on that income and on any assets which directly or indirectly represent that income . |
| 5 | In a survey of school-children , we might expect that the answers they give in an interview held in the headmaster 's study will be different from those they give at home , or out of doors . |
| 6 | The control of transcription — turning on and off of genes — and so controlling the synthesis of specific proteins , involves signal molecules that enter the cell nucleus from the cytoplasm . |
| 7 | The switching on and off of genes in different cells is fundamental to the programme of development . |
| 8 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
| 9 | Butler was anxious that the implications of the abolition of fees in maintained secondary schools should be studied and , ever prudent , hoped to ‘ avoid polemics by keeping ‘ the public school question ’ out of the Act and out of debates . |
| 10 | Both men were in their mid-thirties , and both had spent most of their lives in and out of institutions . |
| 11 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 12 | The car bumped in and out of potholes . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 14 | She let the cooling suds tickle her wrists , worked her white-locked mop in and out of glasses . |
| 15 | Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance . |
| 16 | A product of the cine-literate culture of Paris , he was in and out of cinemas as a kid ( ‘ I started with westerns and finished with Bergman ’ ) and graduated from film school in 1983 . |
| 17 | I shall be drawing a considerable sum in a few days but you must know how it is , travelling the country as we old soldiers do … thank you … ten pounds will be quite sufficient … and you must let me spend some more of it in your excellent company … that evening 's entertainment we enjoyed together , Mr Wood , ’ his voice rose in the small hallway and the other guests and servants indoors and out strained noticeably to catch what would surely be the eloquent testimonial of a compliment , ‘ was one of the , shall we say , most boisterous and wise , a rare combination , Mr Landlord , I have spent , whether in London , in Europe or in and out of ships and foreign postings in a long lifetime . |
| 18 | Loot was a farce , although it was not about people running in and out of other people 's bedrooms , in and out of coffins more likely . |
| 19 | I drove through a street market , up and down hills , in and out of alleyways , through tarpaper shacks . |
| 20 | But it was all too much , that Gloria , now threatening tears and out of tissues , repaired to the loo . |
| 21 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 22 | It was from such lofty horizons that it was first introduced in 1839 and it has been in and out of gardens ever since . |
| 23 | For a song , too , because he had not been able to bear the thought of going back , meeting a valuer , walking about the house , picking things off shelves and out of cupboards . |
| 24 | Your roadie should organize transport to gigs , getting your equipment in and out of venues and also attend to any on-stage problems which may come up when you are playing . |
| 25 | In and out of holes in the soft cliff face they darted : forked tails , sandy brown backs with a brown band dividing white throat and white belly . |
| 26 | Many fans drift into and out of groups rather than making a gradual progress . |
| 27 | None the less , at the end of each day there will be a small net flow into some banks and out of others . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , some of them are chronically in and out of courts — they become pretty unscrupulous . |
| 29 | thirtysomething continually moves the viewer ( particularly , it has to be said , the male , white , middle-class viewer of a certain age ) in and out of identification with characters she-and-particularly-he would rather not be , and in and out of dilemmas she-and-particularly-he would rather not recognize . |
| 30 | Hanging over parapets and out of windows , clustering in the streets and on the rooftops , the crowd whistled and applauded . |