Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I reckon , with what you 've asked for , there wo n't be much change out of four hundred . ’ |
| 2 | She let the dress fall , pushing him away gently to slip out of tiny white satin briefs . |
| 3 | Enough came out of that conversation to keep me brooding half the night . |
| 4 | With world manufacturing prices growing at less than 1 per cent a year , international competition prevented much passing on of higher unit labour costs . |
| 5 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 6 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 7 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 8 | Little boxes , all made out of ticky-tacky , we sneer , even though that song was written by an American , Tom Paxton . |
| 9 | Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor . |
| 10 | It suddenly happened out of thin air . |
| 11 | … and it does mean that I think there is a pressure perhaps grows out of that to make you articulate clearly why you are putting the course together in the way you are … which previously you could have got away with . |
| 12 | So get out of that , change your model , change your way of looking at it . |
| 13 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's all simulated out of woven soya protein . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better get out of those wet things , ’ he said curtly . |
| 16 | I 'd better get out of these togs — I also suggest you sit in the rear of the car before we arrive at Tavey Grange . ’ |
| 17 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 18 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 19 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 20 | So what fundamentally came out of those early years was this sense of community . |
| 21 | Although it is mostly made up of perennial plants which will come up fresh in spring , there are one or two evergreen shrubs added for structure : an upright rosemary and a couple of spiky yuccas . |
| 22 | Hypotheses seem to be effortlessly improvised out of thin air , the resulting theory giving the distinct impression of being a rather facile extemporisation . |
| 23 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 24 | And here you are , in your own house , and looking like you 've just come out of solitary . ’ |
| 25 | They were the weavers followed by a few tottering sailors who had just come out of another tavern . |
| 26 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
| 27 | The whole structure was thus made up of crystalline regions imbedded randomly in a continuous amorphous matrix . |
| 28 | The first are the poorer urban dwellers — these are largely made up of junior office staff , workers in the retail and hotel sectors , petty retailers and petty commodity producers and the unemployed , old and sick . |
| 29 | Pension funds can further diversify their portfolios by investing in a spread of these units across different managed funds ( insurance companies have in fact set up specialised managed funds that are largely made up of specific investments , to allow such diversification across managed funds by pension funds ) . |
| 30 | One of the problems with the prison service is that it is directly driven by civil servants and largely made up of civil servants . |