Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 2 | He argued that thought does not arise out of abstract logical puzzles but from specific problems which we encounter in practice . |
| 3 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 4 | If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act . |
| 5 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 6 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 7 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 8 | But Marx opposes this approach , on the grounds that human needs do not spring out of nothing , and suggests instead that a theory must be constructed which has no ‘ starting-point ’ . |
| 9 | If it did not spring out of contract it must , I apprehend , have arisen ( if at all ) from the relative situation and circumstances of the defendants and plaintiff at the time of the occurrence of the act of negligence . |
| 10 | Her happiness because of this scene was so strong she closed her eyes so that it would not beam out in great mellow streams and betray her to the sternness of the others . |
| 11 | The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily . |
| 12 | Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck . |
| 13 | How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ? |
| 14 | It does not demand such a situation in cultivation but there is no doubt that it thrives best in deep soils that do not dry out in summer . |
| 15 | The therapist can not win out against death , but he or she can win out for life , for a sense of the real , for the kind of growth that truly matters ; dealing as it does with the evaluation of ways to love and hate , with the meanings of human conduct , an appreciation of human nature , and the succession of the generations . |
| 16 | In Jane 's case , she could not snap out of a lifetime of worry overnight . |
| 17 | I was certainly happy to make this find as the larger hammered silver coins of this period are not common and certainly do not pour out of the ground no matter where you live . |
| 18 | Unwin particularly remarked that the plate rack would not appear out of place in close juxtaposition with the bookshelves . |
| 19 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 20 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 22 | There is person A , who seems to be strangely in the power of person B , and though he is deriving no visible benefit from the relationship , can not break out of it . |
| 23 | The fire did not break out in a deserted building in the middle of nowhere in the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 24 | You can not wimp out on your playing style , though ; the strings must be played with commitment and a reasonable degree of attack across each grouping , otherwise you hit a bass string for one note , then one of the drones for the next , and so on . |
| 25 | He did not stick out like a sore thumb — the drawback of most Englishmen , and he spoke French fluently . |
| 26 | The wild , rhythmic drive of the first subject owes much to Shostakovich , yet the second subject would not sound out of place in a Star Trek film score , and its pseudo-oriental counter-theme is pure Hollywood . |
| 27 | Or , in great contrast , there are the more modern abstract designs that might not look out of place displayed on a wall . |
| 28 | Strangely , they do not look out of place or incongruous and in the context of Czech commodities , the sophistication of their design is immediately apparent . |
| 29 | You could even introduce them to your church 's women 's guild and they would not look out of place . |
| 30 | Midfielder Ian Durrant would not look out of place at AC Milan and will have Italian scouts drooling before the competition is over . |