Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | absorbency The fact that cotton Wool can " mop up " larger amounts of liquid or Semi-liquid matter than anything else of a remotely similar nature is the most important functional property it has . |
| 2 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 3 | He had promised her that if anything out of the ordinary happened , any unnecessary flicker on a dial , he would wake her . |
| 4 | Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot . |
| 5 | And she was to , she took over the Queen when she out of the country ! |
| 6 | Is Anderson using the word ‘ random ’ in its mathematical sense , as one out of a series , or in its statistical sense in which each item has an individual chance ? |
| 7 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |