Example sentences of "[noun sg] out of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary .
2 That would be a prudent exercise in any event to avoid any apparent continuing holding out of the outgoing partner as a member of the firm .
3 Even where the lessor does have notice of the partnership , a failure to change the lessees may result in an apparent holding out of the outgoing partner as a continuing member of the firm , if the lessor has no other means of knowing of the change .
4 US Marines took control of an airfield in Somalia yesterday in their first major sortie out of the war-torn country 's capital .
5 US Marines took control of an airfield in Somalia yesterday in their first major sortie out of the war-torn country 's capital .
6 Then , obeying an impulse she barely understood , she took the silver medallion out of the inner pocket of her bag , where she 'd zipped it for safekeeping , and fastened the chain round her neck .
7 MILLWALL player-manager Mick McCarthy blundered his side out of the Anglo-Italian Cup last night .
8 Implementing the Taylor report means that Arsenal ( and West Ham , and Manchester United ) are by no means alone in potentially putting football out of the ordinary fan 's reach .
9 Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years .
10 Made without unnecessary extravagance but containing action , spectacle and visual magic , they are films that spring out of the native culture but articulate a broad vision that can ring chords wherever they are shown .
11 For all the apparent scepticism levelled at these bodies from other quarters , the senior financial officers canvassed for their views of the ICAS research study found little to question in its setting out of the existing problems and the responsibilities for central elements of corporate governance .
12 Motion made , and Question proposed , That a further sum not exceeding £1,680,076,000 be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to defray the charges that will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1992 for expenditure by the Department of Social Security on non-contributory retirement pensions , Christmas bonus payments to pensioners , pensions etc. , for disablement or death arising out of war or service in the armed forces after 2nd September 1939 and on sundry other services , on attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , severe disablement allowance , mobility allowance ; on pensions gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes ; on income support , transitional payment , child benefit , one parent benefit , family credit , and on the vaccine damage payment scheme .
13 The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane .
14 Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space .
15 In ‘ Dog and Duck Hotel ’ he captures again the bleak , brave lives of people scraping a living out of the Australian Outback .
16 As well as emptying the prostatic ducts , orgasm also leads to temporary increase in the blood supply to the prostate , which can lead to a flushing out of the infecting organism .
17 Because of the hostile elements facing farmers in the wetlands , mutual cooperation was essential , both in sharing the upkeep of flood-banks and drains and in administering a system of checks and balances to ensure that each person got a fair deal out of the common pasture .
18 Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door .
19 ‘ We were moving the band 's equipment out of the bad weather when the door blew shut and jammed . ’
20 And anyway , by now the son of the house had come in for his midday meal , turned on the television , created havoc out of the quiet day .
21 Kennedy 's insistence on keeping Soviet influence out of the Western Hemisphere and miscalculations by both superpowers brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict in 1962 .
22 Miguel chased a chicken out of the open window , and went across to his wooden desk and makeshift filing cabinets .
23 I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar .
24 He had let a light engine out of the down loop ready to go to Bolton and had refused the bell code for a fast down freight from Bradley Fold station box .
25 Several manuals were published : prestigious journals such as Scientific American reported on the importance of earth as a building material ; and in Britain , in 1920 , the government built an entire village out of the local earth .
26 DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years .
27 The Appropriation Act , normally in July , authorizes the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of monies sought in the main estimates and summer supplementaries .
28 The winter Consolidated Fund Act authorizes the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the total sun required by the winter supplementaries for the current year and for the vote on account for the following year .
29 The dramatic development of transplant surgery brought this issue out of the restrained polemics of academia into the hurly-burly of public discussion .
30 I am aware of most of its history in America , its formation out of the Pontiac Buggy Company , its takeover by General Motors and its sibling Pontiac — that is all fairly well documented .
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