Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producers who supervise Radio 1 sessions tend to be musicians who are used to coaxing good performances out of young bands in a limited period of time . |
| 2 | NME consists entirely of rude words out of other music papers ( eg. ‘ **** ’ ) and stuck on with earwax . |
| 3 | The temperature rose a little and the snow became impossible ; at every step we had to haul our legs out of deep holes . |
| 4 | The album , an 11-track journey through rave , techno and other strands of electronic manipulations , including covering ground that would have been too difficult in a singles format , ie ambient and floaty , and demonstrating Eon 's influences that range from Pink Floyd and King Crimson to Depeche Mode , Juan Atkins and , erm , repairing stereos and making contraptions out of spare electronic bits . |
| 5 | A similar approach by visual example was taken to the opportunity to create town squares out of existing junctions . |
| 6 | Far from delivering priority goods and services efficiently , most have been shambling giants draining funds out of national coffers . |
| 7 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 8 | But these , he thought , are just pictures out of Jewish religious meditation , recurring under a new impetus , images and ideas also employed by Christian theologians and mystics . |
| 9 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 10 | But the rudimentary nature of the ‘ Hooligan ’ style was not in any essential way different from the later youth fashions in the ‘ affluent ’ postwar era where the kids would put together their ‘ unprecedented ’ styles out of various permutations of available scraps such as tight trousers , baggy trousers , long hair , short hair , no hair , jeans , braces , T-shirts , string ties , broad ties , no ties , heavy boots , narrow winkle-picker shoes , long jackets , short jackets , etc . |
| 11 | He formulated a new version of Occam 's razor in the words , ‘ Whenever possible , substitute constructions out of known entities , for inferences to unknown entities . ’ |
| 12 | Make whiskers out of Matchmakers and eyes out of green Smarties . |
| 13 | Curtis put him in the picture ; his large , powerful hands seemed to tear vivid images out of thin air . |
| 14 | The initial idea of making vases out of solid stone was probably a foreign import . |
| 15 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 16 | For example , on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's erm water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that lot up , it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through , and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us , ‘ Well , as councillors , well , do this for us , ’ and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air . |
| 17 | But the council say they have pledged to keep the homes out of private ownership unless it is absolutely necessary . |
| 18 | ‘ , ‘ Fish ! ’ and ‘ Meat pies ! ’ and on every corner stood tipplers who sold drinks to passers-by out of small , iron-hooped barrels . |
| 19 | While some manufacturers advocated the latter , a more popular approach has been to build computers out of conventional processors so that many current programs and , more importantly , programming concepts , can be recycled . |
| 20 | The village street was empty , the pump deserted , for all the domestic chores were done by midday and the women were indoors now , assembling greens and bacon for tea or hooking rugs out of old rags . |
| 21 | When the States invaded Panama , the typical reaction was ‘ why do n't we keep our noses out of other people 's business ’ . |
| 22 | The changes are still under way at Liverpool and Souness will put a few more noses out of joint before he 's finished . |
| 23 | They say that aside from getting a few noses out of joint at Microsoft Corp , enough people felt BillyGram was a silly name and would prevent it from being taken seriously . |
| 24 | Wardens in tin helmets poked their noses out of sandbagged alarm posts to watch Charles and his CO striding by . |
| 25 | As a result , while Chinese audiences were relishing every passionate embrace in 1926 , Japanese censors that year systematically snipped 800,000 feet out of imported foreign films . |
| 26 | Well they 've certainly tried to make a few private sites out of public car parks in the Vale , I know that much . |
| 27 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |
| 28 | Unbalanced for some , but those who know the area will agree that you can not make Moderates out of vertical rock . |
| 29 | She had heard that the British ate fish and chips out of old newspapers , had seen it in films about the blitz . |
| 30 | For if our physical reality is largely linked to the mental and sensory mechanisms we possess , then what was the nature of physical reality before life is supposed to have spontaneously emerged — like mice out of soiled linen , as some Victorians thought — from the primaeval muds of ancient oceans ? |