Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I retrieved the case notes for as many patients as possible who had been registered locally as having died of asthma during 1980–9 ( 21 case notes out of 40 in total ) . |
| 2 | It will be appreciated that the signal to noise problems inherent in detecting and analysing 300 base pairs out of 3 billion ( 1 in 10 ) are very much alleviated after 30 cycles of polymerase chain reaction , when 10 copies of the 300 base pair fragment are present for every single copy of the total genomic DNA background . |
| 3 | The idea of Wendy 's tailoring enterprise in making a violently checked blanket-coat puts one in mind of escape-committees in German P.O.W. camps making enemy uniforms out of British battle-dress or bedding . |
| 4 | Some others took machine guns out of stricken aircraft regardless of flames and fought back . |
| 5 | The aim is to stay in touch with the promotion pacemakers before a run-in of five home games out of seven . |
| 6 | There was no way that the Party was going to be generous to Ted Heath after three General Election defeats out of four . |
| 7 | Our panel this month included Paul Boutinot of Paul Boutinot Wines the north 's leading shipper , who trotted out some wines form his own stable of Champagne look-alikes ; Bill Towers who must be unique in Britain because as a sheep farmer in the Lake District he runs a very successful wine merchants out of one of the barns on his farm . |
| 8 | A similar approach by visual example was taken to the opportunity to create town squares out of existing junctions . |
| 9 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
| 10 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest pointed out , 39 mortgage payers out of 40 are not in arrears with their mortgages , and that is after a period of unprecedented expansion of owner-occupation . |
| 11 | The 693 quarto reissue was a belated attempt to catch up ; and since much of that ( 44 text pages out of 52 ) was carried over unchanged from 1692 , it needs to be tested critically too . |
| 12 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 13 | They were the architects of Labour 's economic policy which was designed to reassure the financial community and the voters that a Labour government would be financially responsible and would seek to fund its spending commitments out of higher growth . |
| 14 | Cara Pickering , prosecuting , told Chester magistrates yesterday that Joseph Griffiths , of Arrowcroft Road , Guilden Sutton , had deceived mail order companies out of thousands of pounds for almost five years by ordering goods in false names . |
| 15 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 16 | There may be a requirement for precision greater than that obtained from double.length arithmetic , or double.length arithmetic may not be provided , and in this situation it is necessary to program the basic multiple.length arithmetic operations out of simpler operations . |
| 17 | I saved money on cot sheets because I bought a couple of king-size sheets and cut them up to make three cot sheets out of each one . |