Example sentences of "[adj] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm , System 6 , apparently got a lot of the work done by an engineering contingent fresh out of the Russian Academy of Science . |
| 2 | She saw it lying at her feet , half out of the opened envelope . |
| 3 | This description does not tell us which 12 out of the specified 13 are being sold . |
| 4 | The pattern of shareholding in companies is changing rapidly , with a declining role for individuals , but even so , Scott has shown ( 1985 , p. 77 ) that 43 out of the top 250 British firms are still controlled through personal shareholding . |
| 5 | If the Iranian operation worked , the hostages would be freed , terrorism would cease , Iran and Iraq would make peace ( the grand climaxes were often not connected , but somehow self-generating out of the golden atmosphere ) , and Iran would be secured in the American , rather than the Soviet , camp . |
| 6 | Another waiter came , and together they threw Soapy out into the cold street . |
| 7 | Interestingly enough I looked into the same situation in America and Germany and in all three mighty industrial countries six out of the top ten firms had gone . |
| 8 | The procedure to be followed in disputed actions ( whether default or fixed date actions ) is now set out in the automatic directions contained in Ord 17 , r 11(3) — ( 12 ) , subject to any further directions , given by the court ( Ord 17 , r 11(2) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 9 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 10 | The working class in effect delegates investment decisions to capitalists because they are better allocators of investment funds , especially in resisting the temptation to consume too much out of the current social product . |
| 11 | While Diana seemed destined for a life of unskilled , low-paying jobs , she was not that much out of the ordinary for girls of her class and background . |
| 12 | Between 1889 and 1910 fifty-eight clubs moved into new grounds , though there was often continuity of land use in the sense that , at least 35 out of the current league grounds were recreational or sporting grounds in some form before the clubs moved in ’ . |
| 13 | It is always my hope and belief that by alerting social workers to the danger for children and parents of the passage of time and requiring them to point these out to the natural parents , that one would be avoiding that sort of drift , and collusion with parents of ‘ Oh do n't worry , you get yourself together and then we 'll think about him coming home . ’ |
| 14 | Bringing these out in the open and subjecting them to scrutiny and analysis will yield fruitful results . |
| 15 | Joe 's task was to write these out in the forged handwriting of the deceased . |
| 16 | To receive protection under the 1976 Act , an agricultural employee has to achieve the legal status of ‘ qualifying worker ’ , which requires that the person has worked at least 91 out of the preceding 104 weeks whole-time in agriculture . |
| 17 | Secretly Margaret thought he 'd be better out of the racing business . |
| 18 | Rivalry with France was one theme in the centuries of empire to come , but after the loss of Calais the English concentrated on capturing French colonies or in restraining French attempts to dominate Europe rather than on trying to make anything substantial out of the nominal claim to the French crown that English kings asserted until 1801 . |
| 19 | There are three pines outside the house which spring tall , slender and black out of the watery green grass and are silhouetted against an angry battleship grey sky … |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps it was n't a very good idea to talk about this , to drag it all out into the open again . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , anything — you must report anything at all out of the ordinary at once . |
| 22 | They are all out of the top positions . |
| 23 | I thought this was marvellous , good for the lads , and got us all out in the open air . |
| 24 | I mean , I 'll listen if you want to thrash it all out in the open — ’ |
| 25 | Then IBM trains the living daylights out of everyone left in the office , and moves many out into the front lines . |
| 26 | Each one of the forty women made some attempt to complete the test , though the number of statements made varied from three to eleven , with an average of 8.03 out of the desired ten per respondent . |
| 27 | It was formed in 1913 out of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , together with the General Railway Workers ' Union and the United Pointsmen 's and Signalmen 's Society ( Bagwell 1963 ) . |
| 28 | but they were right out in the open breakfast and all the meals out here . |
| 29 | The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain . |
| 30 | And Pound understandably gets all the mileage possible out of the ill-starred history of ‘ QR ’ : |