Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But along with Oxford United they 're out of the new Anglo-Italian Cup Competition … |
| 2 | Border , who once said that the day Marsh and David Boon are out of the Australian side will be the day he goes as well , got back out on the ground soon enough , but he continued to fuel the fire by staying behind in Adelaide that evening while the rest of the team flew on to Perth to prepare for the fifth and final Test . |
| 3 | Climb a little higher and things become much smoother because you are out of the so-called ‘ ground effect ’ . |
| 4 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 5 | The man had n't been out of the top four since 1980 but he did n't have the luck to win a title — in ‘ 86 he lost the crown when his helmet strap came undone . |
| 6 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 7 | The next thing is that when the vote comes to the General Secretary for the union , anyone who 's been out of the particular industry for longer than eighteen months wo n't be able to vote . |
| 8 | they might be out of the divisional area but you , they might just as well be for the amount of you 're spending on them . |
| 9 | About another three weeks we should be out of the real winter sha n't we ? |
| 10 | " We 're glad to be out of the bad weather , " he said . |
| 11 | Must be out of the stir-fry , that broccoli . |
| 12 | ‘ A couple more of those and I shall be out of the main current , ’ he told himself wildly . |
| 13 | I 'm out of the multi-storey now and still running , though slower . |
| 14 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 15 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 16 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 17 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |
| 18 | In fact , the coach — drawn by two grey horses — was only called into service once the couple were out of the public gaze . |
| 19 | Before they were out of the English channel a severe storm washed a man overboard and left Mrs Dutton so ill she had to be taken ashore in a pilot boat when the storm dropped . |
| 20 | Down there in the dunes , they were out of the offshore breeze and out of the sun . |
| 21 | Both Benjamin and I wisely kept our mouths shut until we were out of the main hall . |
| 22 | Energy , by any definition , is out of the ordinary : it is very close to the cockpit of politics . |
| 23 | The basic requirement is for a carry flag , a one-bit processor register which is set according to whether or not carry occurs out of the accumulator during an arithmetic operation ; the carry is out of the left-hand or next to the left-hand bit position , depending on whether the left-hand bit Position participates in multiple.length arithmetic or not . |
| 24 | Even though the pound is out of the Euopean Exchange Rate Mechanism , a cut at present would be too risky , without a corresponding fall in Germany . |
| 25 | Today , Cessna is out of the light aircraft market forever and Piper is on its knees . |
| 26 | ‘ Anything that 's out of the ordinary , Maurice . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the price of the prototype was so high that it was out of the financial reach of the archaeological community . |
| 28 | It is a commemoration and ensures that people remember the event because it was out of the ordinary , and special . |
| 29 | Well , she did behave as if nothing was out of the ordinary , and I began to suspect that Oliver was a little displeased . |
| 30 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |