Example sentences of "[noun sg] out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , they sat on the floor in the living-room and drank tea out of brown mugs . |
| 2 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 3 | Br. , 1982 , 18 , 775 ) , Prof Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has managed to construct a photovoltaic cell out of cheap materials , and with an energy conversion efficiency that is commercially realistic ( Nature , 1991 , 353 , 737 ) . |
| 4 | Since the 1970s the reduction in dependence on bank loans has been a more general feature , especially among manufacturing firms who are able to finance more of their investment out of retained profits or accumulated reserves . |
| 5 | From 1870 to 1873 he was outside manager at G. Forrester & Company 's Vauxhall foundry , Liverpool , where he had charge of repairs to vessels and the fitting out of new ships . |
| 6 | Mr Jeremy took a reed pole , and pushed the boat out into open water . |
| 7 | In ‘ 87 , Nick had been in Athens as one of the team that lured Fawaz Younis to a boat out of territorial waters , and put the handcuffs on him , and read him the charges of Air Piracy and placing a destructive device aboard an aircraft and committing violence aboard an aircraft and aiding and abetting a hijacking . |
| 8 | The software comp/decomp is then seen as a way of pushing the boat out for future Intel processors that will have video handling capabilities built into the main CPU itself . |
| 9 | I looked naked under the lace ( the desired effect ) , but in fact ‘ M ’ always makes built-in underwear out of fine flesh-coloured fabric with several linings of asbestos and a Liberty bodice under the lot for good measure . |
| 10 | erm there i it 's not just a matter of plucking a figure out of thin air , but you can see the justification for the full fee-bid , and you can er crosscheck the accuracy of the fee-bid as well . |
| 11 | As Esterly puts it , ‘ I 'm the only person crazy enough to make a living out of original limewood foliage work . |
| 12 | STEERINA : A car you used to make when you were a young fella out of old prams and burnt out helicopters . |
| 13 | Arnold bought the club out of loose change . |
| 14 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 15 | Angus Wilson claimed to have read and reread Richardson 's Clarissa , for all its immense bulk , starting at the age of eighteen , admiring above all its triumphant creation of fantasy out of realistic detail — a realism made transcendent — though he also admired the ‘ God 's eye view ’ of the great nineteenth-century novels . |
| 16 | Surere was returning his gaze out of candid , friendly eyes ; convinced eyes . |
| 17 | Given the requirements of speculative offices , it is perhaps inevitable that this should happen , but it is preferable to getting average work out of average architects . |
| 18 | This not only creates body but also takes a lot of the hard work out of blow-drying as styling very wet hair has little effect . |
| 19 | Contracting work out to private suppliers may reduce costs to a public agency which nevertheless controls the standard of service to the public through the mechanisms of competitive bidding . |
| 20 | Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region . |
| 21 | At least three sub-Milankovitch band periodicities are present in laminated intervals : individual ( sub-millimetre ) laminations must represent the fall out from mat-forming episodes and , by consideration of sedimentation rates ( above ) , record events of the order of annual average frequency . |
| 22 | Serb commanders have offered Moslem civilians safe passage out of eastern Bosnia . |
| 23 | THOUSANDS of people have been offered free passage out of war-torn Sarajevo . |
| 24 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 25 | This restriction to particular ‘ niches ’ in the environment is the result of a partitioning out of competing species over a limited range of resources ; each comes to live in the portion of a habitat it can exploit best for reproductive purposes . |
| 26 | Ledbetter , who was attracted to the subsidiary out of patriotic , America-first aspirations , believes the until will be worth $100m in two years . |
| 27 | These Chelsea-supporting , three-minute Johnnies have been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for too long , indulging their libidos at our nation 's expense , laughing while communities crumble , hospitals are shut and the economy goes down the pan . ’ |
| 28 | Taking the piss out of old Arnie . |
| 29 | Taking the bread out of honest folk 's mouths . |
| 30 | A 5ft 9in point guard out of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa , Johnson played for the Lancaster Lightnings in the Continental Basketball Association before moving to this country to join Newcastle . |