Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 2 | The actual statistics reveal that four times out of ten a suggestion is followed by an agreement and that is n't a bad hit rate . |
| 3 | These ‘ raincoats ’ were nine times out of ten the tea boys of the A&R department and were nine times out of ten a complete waste of time . |
| 4 | And I 've , nine times out of ten a good , local , electrical retailer will do it there and then . |
| 5 | This means that seven times out of ten the provision of clarification or information results in more of the same or requests for more . |
| 6 | Even when brains are being removed from their dead owners and implanted into living people , or fiends from outer space being fought to a standstill , nine times out of ten the magic weapon is the result of dubious chemistry . |
| 7 | These ‘ raincoats ’ were nine times out of ten the tea boys of the A&R department and were nine times out of ten a complete waste of time . |
| 8 | In nine times out of ten the vehicle concerned will be a motor bike or a motor car . |
| 9 | nine times , nine times out of ten the , the er door the back door or the front door has got a great big pane of glass on top of it . |
| 10 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 11 | ‘ Six times out of seven the train is delayed , ’ he said . |
| 12 | However , in nine cases out of ten the parties do not appreciate this fact . |
| 13 | And finally I can just look at erm draft planning policy guidance thirteen , it is very easy to lift one or two sentences out of either the draft planning policy note , or indeed the Ecotech report which underpins it , erm , I think if a full reading is made of that , what comes across strongly in the research is that there is a very complex relationship between urban forms and transport patterns , and indeed erm I think the advice in P P G , er draft P P G thirteen is prefaced with a note that erm , transport issues are , will be erm , there are very few general principles , if any , and local er considerations will influence the er the importance of this iss issue very considerably , what I think draft P P G thirteen does invite us to do is to more overtly look the transportation implications of alternative settlement patterns , and that 's all . |
| 14 | This lack of Bolshevik militancy ( and the reluctance to comply with Moscow 's directives ) was particularly galling for the Comintern since , as one of its own documents acknowledged , ‘ the Chilean Communist party is the one with the most influence amongst the masses out of all the South American Communist parties ’ . |