Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consumers are induced to behave as if they took account of the externality , though in fact they take account only of the after-tax price . |
| 2 | Steer clear of the Dark Ages |
| 3 | Your safety , and your security and my safety and security in life does not depend on how pleasant my ways are and how pleasant my paths are how much I manage to amass , and how I can overcome all the little difficulties and problems and steer clear of the big ones the security and safety of my life , now and in eternity , security is there in the boat and lying with him . |
| 4 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 5 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 6 | Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone . |
| 7 | If anything , watching bits and pieces of his perfectly chiselled anatomy appear out of the murky darkness , and then disappear again , was an experience that was faintly and uncomfortably erotic . |
| 8 | On black nights in Cornwall the piskies fairly leap out of the twisted holly trees and granite stones and I rush inside , grateful for the light , the fire , the warmth of a human voice . |
| 9 | At his most repellent , thick tendrils and leaves coil out of the forced-open mouth , eyes , or nose , lush and relentless , engulfing the victim 's head . |
| 10 | However , competitive pressures can still be generated by another feature of the industry mentioned before — the relative ease of entry into and exit out of the big league . |
| 11 | Things start to look boring when you exit out of the WYSIWYG add-in mode — no surprises here for 1-2-3 users |
| 12 | A wandering tramp climbed into an unlocked ground floor window for a nights sleep out of the icy wind . |
| 13 | • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it . |
| 14 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’ |
| 15 | The enormous volume of his correspondence , handwritten notes and minutes , with their close attention to detail , speak eloquently of the driving force of which the Bedford Infirmary was now deprived . |
| 16 | The three equations taken together embody both of the major predictions outlined in the rational expectations macroeconomic model developed in chapter 4 . |
| 17 | " The new Queen can go whistle up her kilter , " muttered Harry , and setting his leather tankard down on the earth floor beside the grate , stroke out of the front kitchen and into the foggy night . |
| 18 | If we ever climb out of the current recession , the skills shortage in the industry will be a major problem . |
| 19 | Photons , no longer coupled to matter by Thomson scattering , climb out of the potential wells produced by the mass fluctuations , resulting in small temperature anisotropies in the surface of last scattering . |
| 20 | BREAK OUT OF THE ORDINARY |
| 21 | The explanation is that the emitted particles tunnel out of the black hole from a region of which an external observer has no knowledge other than its mass , angular momentum , and electric charge . |
| 22 | But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane . |
| 23 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 24 | Macadam until we run out of the coastal plain and start to climb . |
| 25 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
| 26 | Khrushchev 's boast in the 1960s that socialism would bury capitalism sounds laughable now , as Poland and Hungary scramble ahead of the Soviet Union in economic reforms . |
| 27 | He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both of the external world and of ourselves , our so-called inner processes lying in the non-manifest , pre-physical realm . |
| 28 | I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin . |
| 29 | Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are . |
| 30 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |