Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All these arguments , from people involved in different ways in the study of language , have weight , and should not be ridiculed or dismissed out of hand , as has become rather fashionable in some language teaching circles .
2 They must be used to that , or got out of practice .
3 I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’
4 Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications .
5 Without the spring trimming there would be no pressure required to change speeds or to pull out of dives , and the controls would be very light indeed .
6 A number of young men mentioned going off on their bikes to get away from it all , and amongst older adolescents driving around or driving out of town and parking to view the scenery were popular ‘ escape ’ mechanisms .
7 … freedom of speech , and debates on proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament .
8 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688 , prohibits simply the impeachment or questioning of parliamentary proceedings in ‘ any court or place out of Parliament ’ .
9 That the free dome of Speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Courte or place out of Parliament .
10 ‘ That the freedome of speech and debates or proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parlyament .
11 Apart from evaporation ( unlikely except in an unoccupied house in hot weather ) , the main problem is that water can be ‘ siphoned ’ or sucked out of traps if the system has not been designed properly to avoid pipes running ‘ full ’ and thus causing suction at the trap .
12 In Nanking also , they had to build them as a safety measure , but they have either been dismantled or moved out of sight .
13 Date or Issue out of sequence .
14 Teachers are entitled to discipline pupils in respect of conduct while out of school , such as on a school trip or bullying out of school where a pupil 's conduct ‘ impinges on the school ’ .
15 They are screening out risky clients or moving out of audit into less litigious areas of service .
16 He said bankruptcy laws should allow a company just a year to restructure debts or get out of business .
17 There will also be spontaneous small group work , with the teacher maybe intervening in role , or staying out of role , commenting , spotlighting work for others to see .
18 One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence .
19 There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies .
20 Blaming others or opting out of responsibility is a reliable sign that Ego is in control .
21 Hobson says that his section failed to meet 25 per cent of its targets last year , and added that " unless substantial additional resources can be made available over the next three years , something will have to give — either substantial slippage on the Environment Protection Act timetable ( which the Director does not recommend ) or opting out of policy development issues ( not easy where there are public commitments or international pressures ) " .
22 IF HISTORY is anything to go by , the legal action being brought in Britain by 3,000 patients against Wyeth ( a subsidiary of American Home Products ) and Switzerland 's Hoffmann-La Roche will either be dismissed or settled out of court for a pittance .
23 Continue rolling for damage until you fail to slay the target or run out of ranks , deducting -1 from the strength for each rank already pierced .
24 Continue rolling for damage until you fail to slay the target or run out of ranks .
25 Pupils must not leave a class or go out of school during school hours without permission .
26 The employers " interests led them to be " nationalist " , arguing that to safeguard their share of the market and to maintain the Scottish capital as a printing centre , they had to keep down costs , or go out of business .
27 Customers turn elsewhere or go out of business , old product numbers are replaced by new , and so on .
28 Pig and poultry companies have been told that they must export more meat or go out of business , because profits from sales here have fallen by fifty per cent .
29 He seemed of a different texture and substance from her gentle and ineffectual mother ; he was hewn or cut out of thunder itself .
30 The nurse brings to the relationship a maturity which permits toleration of frustration if , for example , a patient is not at home when she makes a house call ; or if a patient does not take the prescribed medication ; or removes a dressing or falls out of bed .
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