Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stage 3 is recommended only for research topics ( e.g. special study options , or extended essays ) or out of personal interest in a particular topic . |
| 2 | Admiration for the Soviet Union was wide-spread among Labour Party members and the Fabian leaders , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , promulgated the belief that out of Soviet Communism would spring a new civilisation . |
| 3 | Anderson , for instance , suggests that the strong family cohesion amongst some groups in rural areas was maintained by migrants into Lancashire cotton plants like Preston though largely for fairly calculative reasons rather than out of emotional loyalty to kin . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you from a military family ? ’ the Doctor asked , more to break the embarrassing silence than out of genuine interest . |
| 5 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 6 | In some cases , such as defence or law and order , we all stand to benefit from the service and it would be difficult to envisage how it could be financed other than out of direct taxation . |
| 7 | We have made mention in passing of mobility within the context of a family 's history : both the ups and down of social mobility according to circumstance , and the more obviously-apparent geographical moves people made to ensure their own survival or to better their lot . |
| 8 | There is much that is unsatisfactory in the current convention for allocating women to a social class , and this project , which uses the Longitudinal Study , a 1% sample of the census , aims to develop a social classification scheme for women in and out of paid work and based on full or part time paid work and domestic responsibilities . |
| 9 | Now I know my pornographic magazines : Debonair belonged to the cheaper range , targeted at the manual worker 's handjob , with many a salacious housewife or spotty-bummed Swede twisting herself in and out of chain-store under-wear . |
| 10 | They tend to move very easily between agencies , in and out of temporary work and in and out of the labour market . |
| 11 | Do n't change lanes unexpectedly or weave in and out of slow-moving traffic . |
| 12 | Describing it variously as a lark and a spree , The Times was satisfied that although ‘ genteel ruffianism has met with a very decisive rebuff ’ , the Cremorne affair was nothing more than something done ‘ on the impulse of the moment , and out of pure love of mischief ’ . |
| 13 | At the crime prevention panel , I watched a video of a police chase through the centre of Middlesbrough , in which a 14-year-old drove a Vauxhall Astra at 90 miles per hour on the wrong side of the road , weaving in and out of oncoming traffic . |
| 14 | Sophisticated young women , with toned-down Irish accents , tripped in and out of expensive perfume and handbag shops . |
| 15 | It appeared that for two years after the wrist-slashing incident she 'd been in and out of mental hospital . |
| 16 | Changes in the relative numbers of the different types of household that make up the aggregate population have actuarial consequences for the future pattern of public and private transfers into and out of collective saving and insurance funds . |
| 17 | I stopped , out of breath and out of specious logic . |
| 18 | By reading between the lines of textual data and other psychological texts , associative feminist psychologies comment on what is written into and out of psychological discourse . |
| 19 | In the fourteenth century , for instance , Arnaud de Cervole was in and out of royal employment and was actually appointed royal chamberlain in 1363 , while his son had the duke of Burgundy as his godfather . |
| 20 | As the lambs become stronger and more mobile they can move freely in and out of defined heat zones , taking warmth as and when it is needed . |
| 21 | She admitted the girl had been in and out of voluntary care because her mother had been unable to cope with her . |
| 22 | Pupils also know that language changes over time , they will be used to the idea of ‘ fashionable ’ words and phrases which drop into and out of popular usage , even in their relatively short life-spans . |
| 23 | Strip off leaves , then hang upside down in bunches somewhere cool , dry , well-ventilated and out of full light . |
| 24 | We no longer have long theoretical positions being set up , we actually weave in and out of public face , into private trauma , into theory , into therapy . |
| 25 | Before he could speak , the lights changed and out of innate respect Jack remained stationary , waiting for his once and future King to go first . |
| 26 | Although a number of writers suggest that a full-track bucket is always too large , they are talking of a bucket that has to be transferred as a whole into and out of main storage . |
| 27 | These alternatives weaved in and out of French policy until 1902 . |
| 28 | Wellington encouraged him to talk about his hunting exploits , not to flatter but out of genuine interest . |
| 29 | PAMELA : Verily , Friend , neither , but out of mere curiosity to look into the minds of both sexes . |
| 30 | Anna slept so well that night that she did not notice the arrival of Griselda who , when she woke , was asleep on the pillow next to her face , but out of touching distance . |