Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system . |
2 | Age-related classifications became more common ; older people were inexorably shaken out of the labour market and portrayed as an unproductive ‘ burden ’ on the rest of society ; and most important of all , the concept of mandatory retirement was institutionalized in the 1946 National Insurance Act . |
3 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
4 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
5 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
6 | Tony Tucker , Tony Tubbs , James Smith and Trevor Berbick have all tumbled out of the top 10 and Biggs is now ranked 27th . |
7 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
8 | The target of two-thirds of average earnings was literally pulled out of the air , in order to show how low the pay rates were in Wage Council industries . |
9 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
10 | Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice . |
11 | My inaugural story was eagerly cut out of the paper on the Friday morning . |
12 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
13 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
14 | Indeed , to the straight Grand Planners ( of which North was not one ) , hostages were better left out of the picture entirely . |
15 | This was a long struggle indeed , small fields being literally carved out of the landscape by fire , hacking and sheer brute force . |
16 | So loaded off of the train . |
17 | 1838 " A Motion was made , seconded , and carried , that the Receiving houses and Post Runners hitherto paid out of the General Meeting Assessment should in future be discontinued . " |
18 | Although a few other animals were captured , no adults were successfully moved out of the danger area . |
19 | Thousands of people will be effectively priced out of the system , no matter how strong their cases may appear . |
20 | Although it was eventually pushed out of the company 's programmes by the success of Pineapple Poll , another comedy in which John developed further the idea of sailors getting their come-uppance , Tritsch Tratsch has never lost its popularity as a number suitable for galas and concert programmes . |
21 | The car gave a roar , then slowly moved out of the garage ; the dim side-lights showed a pale flicker on the back of the house , then swung around for an instant on to the gardens . |
22 | It 's actually mostly made up of the skeletons of billions of tiny sea creatures . |
23 | Linseed oil is mostly made out of the seeds of the lin linen plant . |
24 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
25 | But it is very lately that the truly magnificent taste in gardening has flourished in these northern parts of Europe , for although in King Charles the Second 's reign there was great spirit amongst the nobility and gentry of England for planting and gardening , which spirit was greatly heighten 'd in King William 's reign , during which time most of the large gardens of England were laid out and planted , yet we find the taste at that time extended little farther than to small pieces of box-wood , finish 'd parterres and clipp 'd greens , all of which are now generally banished out of the gardens of the most polite persons of this age , who justly prefer the more extended rural designs of gardens which approach the nearest to nature . |
26 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
27 | As a result of the threatened strike — in which the women 's participation would have been crucial — Neill 's came to a separate agreement with the men , signed the memorial and thus dropped out of the dispute during the month of August . |
28 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
29 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
30 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |