Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society viewed as a system for production and distribution , conceived of independently of the actors ' representations or justifications of the system , is what was later called the ‘ social formation ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ My dear , ’ she laughed , ‘ talk about out of the mouths of babes and sucklings ! |
| 3 | This does not include the cost of champions or of chariots ridden by characters ( both of these are paid for out of the Characters allowance ) . |
| 4 | By and large , those extra ’ advantages ’ , as the Labour party calls them , for the employee have to be paid for out of the profits of the organisation as a whole and they eat away at the capital that the business would ultimately have available to reinvest in jobs . |
| 5 | The claims of the careless , or merely unlucky , are paid for out of the premiums of the careful , or lucky . |
| 6 | It was just after we got married , , and he was a Lancashire lad , he came from somewhere of the suburbs of Manchester , I 've forgotten whereabouts he was |
| 7 | Which , presently , Meh'Lindi did , ravenously consuming fish , flesh and fowl from out of the stasis-boxes which they had brought to the suite from Jaq 's ship , the Tormentum Malorum , which went by the alias of Sapphire Eagle while they were visiting Stalinvast . |
| 8 | as if in answer to his doubts , from out of the birch-trees came Mr Malik , at the head of a line of boys . |
| 9 | But , before he had the chance to complete the sentence , a swarm of people came from out of the birch-trees and Aziz and Hasan disappeared into them . |
| 10 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |
| 11 | He could not bring back any coherent dream from out of the hours which followed . |
| 12 | He saw inside himself a yellow-hammer flying in a startled flutter from out of the spikes and small blooms of a gorse-bush . |
| 13 | Suddenly , from out of the shadows , a man ran towards my car , yanked open the passenger door and jumped in , taking me completely by surprise . |
| 14 | As he drew her to the canal 's edge a gondola slid from out of the shadows . |
| 15 | From out of the trees on the cliff side appeared a big black dog . |
| 16 | There 's probably a list in there of the ones you 're supposed to give them to . |
| 17 | Initiation into his high-hab brat gang did not involve mutilation , except perhaps of the emotions . |
| 18 | Turning to the boy , he said firmly , ‘ If you ever again raise your hand to either of the children or your mother , I shall … |
| 19 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |
| 20 | well certainly I believe Mr he , I do n't think he went into the same detail as Mr I , but Mr certainly left me the impression that some at least of the brochures were , went into more than one addition , yes |
| 21 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 22 | One way in which some at least of the problems might be reduced would be if the technology concerned were not promoted and managed by a national agency ( eg the CEGB or electricity board ) but rather by the local authority . |
| 23 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
| 24 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 25 | This course would enable 5 Corps to be tactically disposed in the light of new policy , or ( b ) a proportion at least of the numbers should be returned to Italy and concentrated under the same arrangements that are being made for surrendered personnel of Army Group SW . |
| 26 | Such reaction gave birth to two at least of the names applied to architectural styles . |
| 27 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 28 | Two at least of the features — consciousness and conspiracy — are difficult to operationalise and rarely demonstrated satisfactorily by empirical means ; direct empirical evidence for common objectives and awareness of group consciousness is not easy to envisage , because of the nature of the referents , and it is not surprising therefore that elite theorists such as Wright Mills have tended to use their sociological imagination to provide a plausible construct of indirect evidential demonstration . |
| 29 | The celebration must take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. , and must be preceded by a publication of banns or the obtaining of a Registrar 's certificate or a Bishop 's or Registrar 's licence , and unless a special licence is obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury , must take place in a recognized place of worship or Registrar 's office situate in the district in which one at least of the parties resides . |