Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bridal bouquet is somewhat out of the ordinary , too ! |
| 2 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 3 | Suddenly out of the murky haze , I saw one charging at me . |
| 4 | Llewelyn caught her by the hand as she rose , with one of those warm , moving gestures of his that came so suddenly out of the very centre of his royalty , to join him by the heart with the simplest of those who moved about him . |
| 5 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 6 | Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " . |
| 7 | Next , unscrew the old socket faceplate , ease the cables inside out of the mounting box , and disconnect the cable cores from the terminals . |
| 8 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 9 | Where the street broadened into a square , the houses were swathed in plumbago and bougainvillaea growing valiantly out of the cobbled pavement . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I can not help wondering about the parcels , for that is something so out of the ordinary , and about the things which are now missing . |
| 11 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 12 | Sometimes an old woman clambered mysteriously alone out of the dark silence on to the airy lightness of the Ridgery ; sometimes a friar came out of the trees , mounted to the village and required alms in a confident whining way . |
| 13 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 14 | Why should a thousand people be given licence by the district council to do what an individual would be arrested for doing , and why should the police who would arrest you or I for doing it , be paid overtime out of the public purse to stand and watch this organised chaos wend its way across the city ? |
| 15 | In some localities blastoids like this one break easily out of the enclosing matrix , or are weathered out in considerable numbers . |
| 16 | Phil Clarke , Andy Platt , Martin Dermott , Steve Hampson and Jason Robinson are already out of the televised first round encounter , while Joe Lydon is struggling with a twisted ankle . |
| 17 | We shall fail to get the best out of the European Community , because our leaders will continue to be afraid to tell us that shared success in the Community means sharing sovereignty too . |
| 18 | It was just out of the blue really . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’ |
| 20 | The leading British driver is Malcolm Wilson , whose Opel was just out of the top 10 last night in 11th place , two minutes ahead of Gwyndaf Evans in his Ford Sierra in 12th place . |
| 21 | I looked guiltily out of the open door . |
| 22 | We slowly sweated our way up the steep mountainside on wet , slippery grass which gave way to wetter , slippier rocks looming vertically out of the swirling mist . |
| 23 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 24 | The major-domo came quickly out of the inner chamber . |
| 25 | He walked quickly out of the bare office followed by a speechless Charles . |
| 26 | Back in her drab black dress , Ellie was escorted smartly out of the ready-made department and back into the elevator . |
| 27 | Attempts to move Currys gradually out of the high street to larger edge-of-town and out-of-town stores and to tone down Dixons ' garish image have yet to bear fruit . |
| 28 | The sight of him standing there smoking made me realize how little any of us in Benedict 's knew what he was really like as a man , once out of the defensive armour of his white coat . |
| 29 | Once out of the bustling grimy city and on our way we motored into the heart of rural England , through expanses of green rolling hills with the odd kestrel hovering by the roadside looking for prey , and just as the sun began to set we passed Stonehenge , the strange stone monoliths eerily silhouetted against the dusky pink horizon . |
| 30 | Any journalist worth her salt would have got scads more out of the tall Czechoslovakian than she had , she thought glumly . |