Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As E. R. Dodds has remarked , ‘ where men can build their systems only out of used pieces the notion of progress can have no meaning — the future is devalued in advance ’ . |
| 2 | It would be difficult , and undesirable , to isolate experiences which lead towards an understanding of number when so many arise naturally out of everyday activities . |
| 3 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 4 | Elizabethan audiences would presumably have spotted at once that he was ‘ putting on the style ’ with his phrases cobbled together out of distant memories of Kyd , Marlowe , and Greene . |
| 5 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 6 | The creative stimulus , as well as the goal scoring example , supplied by such players brought the best out of fellow strikers like Liddell , Balmer , Hunt , Arrowsmith , Toshack , Heighway , Rush , Aldridge and Barnes . |
| 7 | ‘ They seem to seem to bring the best out of both teams . ’ |
| 8 | But for the majority of us there 's enough to get the best out of most effects in most playing situations . |
| 9 | He could solve every practical problem , and made Jane some superlative furniture , just out of odd pieces of wood which were lying about the estate . |
| 10 | ‘ We get every type of man in here — the medallion man , the oldest swingers in town , the boy racers just out of short pants , and the plain ordinary nice guys . |
| 11 | oh yeah , ow , na , na , na , na , we 're still out of grey ones , could n't use them though can we ? |
| 12 | Tim wants you to see some people he knows who do investment advice — then you 'd get more out of those shares . |
| 13 | But when it come to you , master Conroy , and you hardly out of short trousers … ’ |
| 14 | As a right-hand bat and useful seamer , he captained St Peter 's , York , when hardly out of short trousers , won his Blue as a freshman at Cambridge and , in turn , captained his school , university , county and country . |
| 15 | Start-up costs came to around £10,000 — which came straight out of personal savings . |
| 16 | There is a popular misconception that long-stay patients were dumped straight out of mental hospitals on the streets when they were abandoned . |
| 17 | There he was in all his splendour , gazing blithely out of society-column illustrations , going into or coming out of some swank nightspot or other , with a gorgeous girl on either arm . |
| 18 | Quite a large sum of money was created partly out of existing funds ( of LEA ) which were to support in-service in schools that had been identified by some kind of functional group in the school … |
| 19 | This arose , he thinks , partly out of ungrounded fears of ’ de-industrialisation and import-dependence . |
| 20 | But if I had to decide I would say my favourite would be ( favourite country ) would be Canada because I have lived there the longest out of all places and so I know it better than any other country . |
| 21 | ‘ We seem to be right out of reverse gears at the present , ’ he said , in a gloomy sort of a voice . |
| 22 | ‘ I am sorry madam ’ he called out , over my shoulder , ‘ We are right out of cracked eggs today . ’ |
| 23 | This arises mainly out of two issues : |
| 24 | So we can keep the name Shakespeare and er we can keep the er tea towel trade and Stratford-on-Avon , though it is a pity what 's happened to the R S C is n't it , and maybe out of these ashes will rise a new Royal de Vere Company , one never knows . . |
| 25 | And yet — and yet — for all this earnest and worthy work of conservation , the life has gone irrevocably out of these stations . |
| 26 | They stood uncomfortably outside Margate crematorium while the coffin was carried in and the relations eased themselves sadly out of hired limos . |
| 27 | It was theoretically out of these debates that the legislation on research and technology policy was framed . |
| 28 | By day you can see for miles , and at night the moon shines brightly out of cloudless skies . |