Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disadvantage of share schemes is , Mr Luder says , that ‘ it is all very well my being an employee of a subsidiary five tiers down of some major plc , and their saying ‘ Here is a dollar for a share option and you will be motivated if the share price rises ’ , but there is no direct link between cause and effect' . |
| 2 | units out of that |
| 3 | According to preliminary estimates , twelve of the southern countries have been damaged by severe erosion to the extent of about 70 million acres out of some 140 million acres of land now in crops . |
| 4 | This same dealer would sometimes take clients out of many solid stocks to reinvest proceeds in just one huge holding in an OTC stock . |
| 5 | It extended the EC 's observer mission into Croatian territory and envisaged the withdrawal of the JNA , the Serbian guerrillas and Croatian National Guards out of each other 's range before returning to barracks or demobilizing . |
| 6 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | And his programme was to try to show that really ultimately the only things that can be accepted are our own sense experiences , and to try to exhibit everything else , ordinary material objects , and then of course , physical objects in turn , as constructions , as logical constructions out of these . |
| 8 | is that all the w all the erm almonds out of both packs ? |
| 9 | ‘ Leave my fucking brothers out of this . ’ |
| 10 | Using funds from a variety of sources — notably Scottish Homes , Historic Scotland , Edinburgh District Council and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd — the Lister Co-operative has created 50 flats at affordable rents out of former dereliction . |
| 11 | There were railway hotels , coffee-houses , lodging-houses , boarding-houses ; railway plans , maps , views , wrappers , bottles , sandwich-boxes and timetables ; railway hackney-coach and cabstands ; railway omnibuses , railway streets and buildings , railway hangers-on and parasites , and flatterers out of all calculation . |
| 12 | There were railway hotels , office-houses , lodging-houses , boarding-houses ; railway plans , maps , views , wrappers , bottles , sandwich-boxes , and time-tables ; railway hackney-coach and cabstands ; railway omnibuses , railway streets and buildings , railway hangers-on and parasites , and flatterers out of all calculation . |
| 13 | Let him pick the bones out of that , she thought with satisfaction , but the look he gave her was oddly enigmatic . |
| 14 | So picking the bones out of that , it 's size , composition , economic significance and locational requirement means that you ca n't bed it down in your ordinary I five allocation . |
| 15 | He gives me £54 a month and I have to pay all the bills out of that It used to bother me at first , it does n't now . |
| 16 | This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea , so you 're flushing the toxins out of both ends . |
| 17 | Some of those pieces out of those U two singles I thought were brilliant ! |
| 18 | Even if recent legislation and immigration control has limited the numbers of black men seeking work in this country , the wives and children of settled immigrants have maintained the proportion of black immigrants out of all immigrants during the 1970s . |
| 19 | WHILE television has helped to make heroes out of many players , such as Portsmouth winger Darren Anderton during their FA Cup run , the publicity provided by the cameras can be a double-edged sword . |
| 20 | So like one week , I 'll take three days out of that week , and Jane only has two . |
| 21 | Are knocking the daylights out of each other |
| 22 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 23 | For he saw no contradiction between buying , say , an expensive painting of a beautiful landscape , and bashing the living daylights out of another beautiful landscape . |
| 24 | It 's not necessarily erm a target if you do n't get it hard luck er that 's the end of your s your time with us , it 's just a target that we would like we know that we 're gon na clear all our costs out of that first year . |
| 25 | If you knew some of the goings on of that lot in high places . ’ |
| 26 | He come home with lines and write passages out of this that and the other . |
| 27 | annual increases that some irresponsible Labour-controlled councils were imposing and which had the sole effect of driving businesses out of many of our major inner-city centres . |
| 28 | This propensity to seek damages out of all proportion to the alleged negligence must be stopped ; otherwise the time will inevitably come , and soon , when promising young accountants will not be attracted by partnership in accounting firms , as they will not wish to put their personal wealth at risk . |
| 29 | Our commitment to that principle was given greater weight by the fact that benefit claims for students frequently presented administrative problems out of all proportion to the amounts of benefit finally awarded and the duration of the benefit periods . |
| 30 | So she 's lost eighty , she 's lost twenty pounds out of that hundred pounds though . |