Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles .
2 The ANC 's decision to pull out of constitutional talks was supported by several other CODESA participants who also withdrew .
3 From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s .
4 The Prince of Wales is to pull out of top-grade polo severing his sporting links with Major Ronald Ferguson .
5 When Roy Thomson 's son decided to pull out of national papers , having spent millions on The Times in pursuit of production economies , Murdoch was the purchaser .
6 The documentary hinted that several wealthy Arab owners were threatening to pull out of British racing and take their horses abroad unless prize money went up .
7 In fact , noise can be very helpful because it gives the network a chance to jump out of local minima .
8 A diminishing few of us will continue to come out of sheer love but many will not , especially the young .
9 One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade .
10 BRITAIN 'S athletics selectors were slammed yesterday after persuading Kriss Akabusi to come out of international retirement for one final fling .
11 The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds .
12 They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can
13 cos I want to come out of thick woollies now it is March
14 ‘ It can be dangerous to drink out of strange bottles , ’ she said .
15 Many people seem simply to grow out of heavy drug use , rather as many young drinkers mature out of heavy drinking .
16 Some present MPs think it has already " become all too easy to opt out of real responsibility at Westminster by immersion in constituency work " .
17 The bill claimed to be ‘ putting the patient in the driving seat ’ , but it did not even allow patients to be consulted if a hospital decided to opt out of regional health authority control , he said .
18 From 1997 , it says , all Christmas cards will be harmonised , subject to a phasing-in period which allows member states to opt out of certain features .
19 The Labour Party insists that self-governing trusts ( hospitals which choose to opt out of health-authority control and manage their own affairs ) are in fact opting out of the NHS altogether ; and that doctors who control their own budgets are going to turn queue-jumping at hospitals into a business practice .
20 Hospitals that have chosen to opt out of health-authority control and become self-governing will start running their own affairs .
21 In education , although legislation promises increased power to parents and the opportunity for schools to opt out of local education authorities , it also promises a greater power for head teachers and , in the case of City Technology Colleges , a greater direct input from industry .
22 In education , schools were given a similar opportunity to opt out of local government control .
23 Even more important , they are allowed to opt out of local authority control .
24 AN AVALANCHE of applications by schools wanting to opt out of local authority control is now expected .
25 In a further attempt to restrict the role of local authorities in housing , council house tenants were given the right to switch to an alternative landlord — either in the form of a housing association or an approved private sector landlord — in other words , they were allowed to opt out of local authority control .
26 A COMPREHENSIVE school in Essex is poised to opt out of local authority control after parents overturned their own decision .
27 This apparently low level of active parental involvement has important implications for other aspects of current policy — especially the arrangements for schools to opt out of local authority control .
28 The most controversial sections of the Education Reform Act are those which allow secondary schools and primary schools with 300 or more pupils to opt out of local authority control .
29 A secret postal ballot of parents then determines the fate of the school , and once a decision to opt out of local authority control has been taken it can not be reversed at a later date , although there is , of course , nothing to stop a new government introducing a legislation to repeal this provision .
30 In July 1988 an independent trust was set up to advise schools on how to opt out of local authority control .
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