Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin .
2 Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war .
3 Seven minutes is what it takes me at this time in the evening ; eight , sometimes nine , coming the opposite way in the morning , to allow for waits at the two pedestrian crossings and the crowds coming out of the station .
4 It is realistic to require , therefore , that the automatic system shall have achieved substantial control i.e. to have prevented further upward spread , by three minutes , before the flames rise out of the original level , or at least have not ignited the goods in the level above it .
5 A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries .
6 The Germans opted out of the hostilities , entirely , the French sent an ambiguous little contingent , and only the British were fully committed alongside their American allies .
7 The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent .
8 The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent .
9 When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof .
10 And the birds turned up of their own volition ?
11 The tickover burbles and barks , but blip the throttle and the whole car twists with the torque reaction and the birds fly out of the trees .
12 The contestants come out of the fight relatively uninjured .
13 In the late eighteenth century the visionary French mathematical astronomer , the Marquis de Laplace , added some detail to Kant 's vision by proposing that the planets emerged out of the rings of cosmic dust flung off by centrifugal force from the densest part of the cloud that was to become the Sun .
14 In many of the cases arising out of homelessness , local authorities have sought to interpret their statutory obligations narrowly .
15 That evidence will surely mount if Mr Hurd fails to cause to be reviewed the convictions in the cases arising out of the Birmingham and Guildford bombings , bombings whose victims should not be allowed to include anyone wrongfully imprisoned for them .
16 ‘ We think that the products coming out of this factory are of such a standard and quality that there is a very good potential to sell them into the market , ’ he said .
17 So actually the policies disappeared out of the campaign as well ?
18 A substantial portion of the surpluses generated out of slave labour and the trade in cotton , sugar and tobacco was channelled into banking operations and undoubtedly provided one important element in the emergence of Britain 's banking system , with most of the major banking corporations of today tracing some part of their profits to earlier banks set up with finds derived from the triangular trade ( Fryer , 1984 , pp. 40ff ) .
19 The exact significance for Britain 's economic development of the surpluses generated out of the triangular trade and Britain 's imperial domination of India and Africa will no doubt continue to be debated .
20 Students from a college hurried to the roads leading out of town .
21 He likes to have the imperfections audited out of his system .
22 When a governmental official in a Third World country recommends ( under the influence of a bribe ) that his country purchase the more expensive but less adequate of two types of aircraft , then the extra millions of dollars will be found from the taxes sweated out of the country 's impoverished citizens .
23 The funnel described in this chapter makes the animals come out of the soil or leaves so that you can see what they look like and find out how many there are .
24 I will argue later that kids involved in sport are able to broaden their intellectual scope , partly because they can bring the characteristics chiselled out of sport to bear in other aspects of life , and partly because , through improving health , the kids increase their capability for intellectual work and reinforce their resistance to mental stress .
25 Local management of schools , the opportunities to opt out of the local education authority system , and funding formulae dominated by per capita allocations come together to provide a force for the fragmentation of the education service rather than the more desirable decentralisation .
26 The European Court has stated that the concept of abuse is to be assessed by determining whether an undertaking in a dominant position ‘ has made use of the opportunities arising out of its dominant position in such a way as to reap trading benefits which it would not have reaped if there had been normal and sufficiently effective competition ’ .
27 The eyes started out of his head like a hare 's , and were not blue but hazel .
28 None of the non-tourists looked out of place .
29 The guards scurried out of sight .
30 In all honesty , the history of commercial rose-growing is a trail of trumpet-blowing and publicity , so often followed by silence as the subjects ran out of steam and fell by the wayside .
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