Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly forty years ago the great historian and wise commentator on contemporary events , E. H. Carr , published a series of broadcast talks called The New Society ( long since out of print ) . |
| 2 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
| 3 | He then announces , only somewhat out of breath , that the law guarantees compensation to Mrs. McLoughlin , whatever anyone else might think . |
| 4 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 5 | So implausible , so achingly out of touch are they , no amount of Toytown trickery can disguise their ancient irrelevance . |
| 6 | Llewelyn caught her by the hand as she rose , with one of those warm , moving gestures of his that came so suddenly out of the very centre of his royalty , to join him by the heart with the simplest of those who moved about him . |
| 7 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 8 | We all know that dreadful ‘ it 's on the tip of my tongue ’ feeling when a name with which we are perfectly familiar remains tantalisingly just out of reach . |
| 9 | Only just out of their teens , they can — and do — earn millions of dollars a year , mostly with exclusive contracts to international cosmetic and fashion houses . |
| 10 | Under his gaze she had to go to the sitting-room where she had slept , while he knew why she went and knelt by the sleeping-bag , which was only just out of his line of sight . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry — I 'm only just out of bed . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’ |
| 13 | But that 's so quickly out of date again you see the good wood cos I mean they they have new government schemes , schemes every year do n't they ? |
| 14 | ‘ It 's because of that helplessness that I have to go , ’ and he walked so quickly out of the churchyard that she could not follow him . |
| 15 | The Democratic party has won the presidency only once out of the last six elections since 1964 . |
| 16 | In a more relaxed moment — and there were not many of these Ken told Fenella that he always felt ‘ obliged to go much more out on a limb than most people . ’ |
| 17 | La Clemenza di Tito is one of the last of the opere serie , a genre which by then had fallen more or less totally out of fashion . |
| 18 | Small business people , bureaucrats and wage earners who backed the party did so more out of their fear of unemployment than because of actual unemployment . |
| 19 | Mandy had assured her it was a cinch , but it was the hours that had made her take the plunge into something so totally out of her realm of experience . |
| 20 | Maybe you were n't so far out with the name . |
| 21 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 22 | Chimney sweeps are few , and are not always willing to come so far out for a couple of chimneys . |
| 23 | Would it be worthwhile for each discipline to set up think tanks — if one does not already exist — of their most imaginative scientists , engineers etc , with , perhaps , three remits : ( i ) to identify major problems for which current and foreseeable knowledge offers no solution ; ( ii ) to pinpoint what basic knowledge is needed , what would be the characteristics of the ideal chemical or other material , together with the relevant techniques for using them ; ( iii ) recognising that what is being considered may be so far out of sight as to be beyond worthwhile research based on existing knowledge and know-how , to organise a system that will recognise the first appearance of the new knowledge and then steer research in the right direction without delay . |
| 24 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 25 | That 's why the hospital 's so far out of town . |
| 26 | Never before has a member of the Royal Family stepped so far out of line and the Queen is not the only one who blames her for many of the misfortunes which have befallen the House of Windsor this year . |
| 27 | But , apart from that , the Ceauşescus , collection of television sets , indeed their domestic arrangements as a whole , were not so far out of line with what any politburo member in the Bloc would have regarded as normal . |
| 28 | Julia was so far out of her usual self-control that she whimpered at the prick of the needle . |
| 29 | The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers , so far out of their element . |
| 30 | Mam was just about to be rehoused by the council , and did n't fancy being so far out of town . |