Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angelica left the train on a stretcher in the dusk under bright station lights , her tomato head half covered by a blanket , and one lifeless hand , with red fingernails and sparkling rings , artistically drooping out of concealment on the side where the train 's passengers were able to look on with fascination . |
| 2 | He smiled as he watched Sammy cycle a little unsteady out of the yard . |
| 3 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 4 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 5 | While thirteen out of twenty middle-class women ( sixty-five per cent ) ‘ mind ’ describing themselves as housewives on a form , only eight out of twenty working-class women ( forty per cent ) state this objection . |
| 6 | Only eight out of 26 ministers retained their posts in a new Cabinet announced on July 19 ; key ministries remaining in the same hands included Defence under Maj.-Gen. |
| 7 | Only eight out of more than two hundred teams made it to today' final at Silverstone |
| 8 | Even so , the 1974 Press Commission estimated that perhaps eight out of fifteen mornings they examined were being subsidized by an evening paper . |
| 9 | ChildLine has the resources to answer only 2,700 out of 10,000 calls attempted to its freephone number every day from children across the UK . |
| 10 | However , their tests found only 2 out of the 183 possible risk premiums to be significantly different from zero . |
| 11 | We have Pope , who is really the Elizabethan satiric style , more or less born out of Horace , and a little improved or at least regularized . |
| 12 | ‘ This will leave only 800 out of 2,500 stations fully manned . ’ |
| 13 | In the seven months to November 1992 , it had lost only 300 out of 37,000 customers , mainly as a result of deaths . |
| 14 | I have seen ACE schemes that are doing very good work but are more or less driven out of the place they are in because people did n't like their faces , or for other reasons . |
| 15 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 16 | I hope now that perhaps the legal proceedings can be held in abeyance and discussions can take place so some out of court settlement can be reached as the judges are urging . |
| 17 | Altrincham was writing not so much out of malice as out of a wish to save the monarchy if not from itself , then from the court . |
| 18 | It does n't take so much out of you . |
| 19 | Such a result would be so illogical , and so much out of tune with the extensive inquisitorial powers which are undeniably created by the Act , that Mr. Collins accepted that this could not be the meaning of section 2 . |
| 20 | ‘ Indeed , it was one of the many subjects … time , Amaryllis … but you have driven so much out of my thoughts . |
| 21 | How do they get so much out of the country ? ’ |
| 22 | Bingham enjoys the reputation of being able to get so much out of so little , making the most of limited resources . |
| 23 | Mr Dods , of Coatham House Farm , Coatham Mundeville , said : ‘ When I was young I would barely get on a bus on my own but I got so much out of Young Farmers . |
| 24 | I think she 's erm they like take so much out of her pension but she 's not gon na need owt any way and then erm I think government or whatever put rest . |
| 25 | Only 10 out of the 24 hours of Sunrise 's daily programmes will be local . |
| 26 | Economic plans for the coming five years revealed in February 1990 included increased emphasis on the processing of raw materials and on agriculture ; changes in the pricing system ; the introduction of some private ownership ; and the setting of production targets for only 10 out of 2,000 products . |
| 27 | In support of its report , the Association quoted figures from a 1991 select committee survey of Wales , which found that only 10 out of 36 health authority incinerators burnt waste at high enough temperatures , and that none monitored emissions from their chimneys . |
| 28 | Only six out of sixty-two leading clubs paid their shareholders any dividend in the season 1908–9 and they were restricted by the FA from paying a dividend of more than 5 per cent . |
| 29 | JOHN UPSON 'S horses have been so badly hit by a throat infection that only six out of his 30-strong string are fit to run . |
| 30 | Only six out of 15 northbound buses due to run actually appeared on the route . |