Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it is not for me to suggest that I am worthy of ever being placed alongside the likes of the ‘ great ’ butlers of our generation , such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane — though it should be said there are those who , perhaps out of misguided generosity , tend to do just this . |
| 2 | As E. R. Dodds has remarked , ‘ where men can build their systems only out of used pieces the notion of progress can have no meaning — the future is devalued in advance ’ . |
| 3 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 4 | Like Fiat executives , he argues that Olivetti paid bribes in exchange for contracts only out of dire necessity . |
| 5 | Some of the goods on sale are enticing Juranc , on wines , local sausage , the ubiquitous Pyrenean fromage de brebis or ewe's-milk cheese , worth trying if only out of local piety though hardly one of France 's great cheeses — others look likely to have a long shelf-life . |
| 6 | I would be content to keep the events locked away in my head , if only out of plain charity , or respect for those other characteristics of the person in question which to some extent balance or even explain the apparent iniquities of his behaviour . |
| 7 | I would be content to keep the events locked away in my head , if only out of plain charity , or respect for those other characteristics of the person in question which to some extent balance or even explain the apparent iniquities of his behaviour . ’ |
| 8 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 9 | 16.50 First , they should be designed to arise naturally out of good primary practice . |
| 10 | It would be difficult , and undesirable , to isolate experiences which lead towards an understanding of number when so many arise naturally out of everyday activities . |
| 11 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 12 | Elizabethan audiences would presumably have spotted at once that he was ‘ putting on the style ’ with his phrases cobbled together out of distant memories of Kyd , Marlowe , and Greene . |
| 13 | Cloke ( 1980a , p. 98 ) suggests that this may be because the concept of ‘ key settlements has been a cosmetic justification for a policy created merely out of economic expediency and administrative pragmatism ’ . |
| 14 | It is important for us all to remember that everyone who shared in the meeting did so out of good conscience and with a genuine desire to find God 's will for us . |
| 15 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 16 | By the end of the decade the voluntary and private sector had overtaken the statutory sector ( local authorities and the NHS ) as the main institutional provider , an expansion which had been funded largely out of social security payments . |
| 17 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 18 | While health visitors are presently considered to be the experts in health promotion , in future nurses of every clinical specialty will be expected to play an important role in health promotion , and in educating patients and colleagues towards self help in addition to getting the very best out of available health resources and expertise . |
| 19 | The creative stimulus , as well as the goal scoring example , supplied by such players brought the best out of fellow strikers like Liddell , Balmer , Hunt , Arrowsmith , Toshack , Heighway , Rush , Aldridge and Barnes . |
| 20 | And even if it was hardly the most spectacular of debuts by the French international , his sheer presence seems to be bringing the best out of United — and especially Mark Hughes . |
| 21 | John : ‘ Looking at the display racks , there are a lot of basses around even in this price category , and I have n't got a clue about what 's what , but I do want to try something that 's Korean-made , just out of personal interest . ’ |
| 22 | She also wanted to know if he was dead or alive , just out of general interest . |
| 23 | Not just out of polite attention , but trying to see how Gillian would turn out . |
| 24 | He could solve every practical problem , and made Jane some superlative furniture , just out of odd pieces of wood which were lying about the estate . |
| 25 | She had wanted to know if he had a wife , just out of normal curiosity , ever since she had first met him . |
| 26 | And it had been written , apparently , by some boy just out of high school , for heaven 's sakes . |
| 27 | ‘ We get every type of man in here — the medallion man , the oldest swingers in town , the boy racers just out of short pants , and the plain ordinary nice guys . |
| 28 | It 's not pulling it out just out of thin air |
| 29 | oh yeah , ow , na , na , na , na , we 're still out of grey ones , could n't use them though can we ? |
| 30 | His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor . |