Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He is by no means a total social isolate for there are still occasions when work is carried out in groups of two or three , but contact is more desultory and the closely knit relationships developed out of lengthy periods of working side by side have become somewhat attenuated .
2 Strange words she chose ; on the back of a letter of mine I found words made out of HORSELESS and NOVELIZE .
3 For some time Judith Cowan 's was synonymous with a certain type of imagery and object making characteristic of the 1980s ' little monkey hands would peep over elliptical edges and scooped out boat shapes would merge with curiously-conceived animals made out of fired papier mâché .
4 Unemployment was abolished , class struggle overcome , and the living standards and cultural level of even the most backward of the country 's peoples transformed out of all recognition .
5 But it would not guarantee markets for products made out of old paper or plastic .
6 By end of this period around half of all small shops and restaurants should be in private ownership , and the number of joint-stock companies formed out of large state enterprises should reach 1,000-1,500 .
7 He dressed the same as all other Vietnamese : a drab tunic suit and sandals made out of old lorry tyres .
8 Boldly we made our way through the incredible promiscuity of the streets : men with shoes made out of silver-birch bark , women wearing sacks and carpets , children in their dusty birthday suits .
9 I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares …
10 In soliciting response to analysis and subsequent proposals produced out of higher level partnerships , it would be asking for local ideas to be contributed to the whole .
11 They pull toy boats made out of old soya bean oil cans .
12 Once before , Israeli troops pulled out of Palestinian refugee camps — in Lebanon during the Israeli invasion of 1982 .
13 We all made our own way up the stone steps to the guardian 's hut , a recommended viewing point for the classic view over Machu Picchu 's maze of empty plazas , chambers , alleyways , and staircases carved out of solid rock .
14 The floor around the wastepaper basket was littered with paper aeroplanes made out of urgent requests from various City officials .
15 A moving track brought to the platform , from the machine that was making the appalling noise , a series of boxes containing moulds shaped out of black sand ( though Wilcox called it green ) .
16 A common response from farmers left out of these schemes is : ‘ Why ca n't I also be paid for providing environmental services ?
17 The room had roughly plastered walls and a low ceiling supported on enormous joists trimmed out of whole trees .
18 Pictures of cats made out of synthetic material and stuck on to plastic plates are available in virtually every store .
19 State newspapers are therefore funded out of public money , and there have been attempts to follow the example of the Daily Times , funded from the profits made out of various commercial activities .
20 The worst problem is that the combination of silt , moss and leaves , along with a few chippings washed off of flat roof , can cause soakaways to get blocked , thereby reducing the flow at times when it 's needed most .
21 In the basic form ( shown in rows ( b ) and ( c ) of Figure 2.2 ) , zeros are shifted in at one end while bits are lost at the other ; in the second form ( called rotate or circular shift ) bits shifted out of one end of the pattern are shifted in at the other .
22 And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars .
23 iv , ‘ eleven buckram men grown out of two ’ , DS 8 .
24 As we saw earlier , discs permitted simple and cheap record-players ; but the advantage was lost if the record-players had to have sapphire or diamond points made out of precious gems .
25 And how many men staggered out of Fatal Attraction swearing they 'd never dare flirt with a woman again ?
26 Finance directors up and down the land will also be chewing over the implications of the Chancellor 's other proposal that dividends paid out of foreign earnings could attract a reclaim of ACT .
27 An Inland Revenue consultative document will herald a scheme whereby dividends paid out of foreign income could partially bypass ACT .
28 Some schemes developed out of previous informal arrangements , characterised as ex gratia pensions , whereby an employer would award a retirement pension to a particularly long-serving or otherwise ‘ deserving ’ employee — a paternalistic , ‘ one-off ’ arrangement which could fail if the employer later ceased trading .
29 We set everything in monotype , and all these display headline faces copied out of old type books and then I left and it was almost like people were saying ‘ now what ’ , erm ‘ what are you going to do after that ? ’ and I said ‘ what do you mean ? ’ .
30 There was one dank , damp room inside with an earth-beaten floor , two small trestle tables and a collection of rough stools fashioned out of old barrels .
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