Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools and housing associations can opt out of local authority control . |
| 2 | The parental vote will be even more powerful if it is proposed that a school should opt out of local authority control and transfer to grant maintained status . |
| 3 | Secondly , the Act laid down procedures whereby individual schools could opt out of local authority control , acquiring grant maintained status , and receiving their funding directly from the DES ( see Chapter 4 : 1988 Education Reform Act ) . |
| 4 | They have a full say in selecting schools for their children , on governing bodies where the allocation of resources is decided , and whether or not a school should opt out of local authority control , a decision which could affect the status and position of history in a school . |
| 5 | Coun Corner said : ‘ Progressive cuts will drive schools to either opt out of local authority control or else they will fall down . ’ |
| 6 | Meet them halfway and you 'll improve out of all recognition . |
| 7 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
| 8 | Essentially you must be good friends , and love , I 'm sure , will grow out of that friendship . |
| 9 | When an extended family is living together at close quarters , even minor irritations can grow out of all proportion . |
| 10 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 11 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 12 | Would she never grow out of this knack of rubbing her father up the wrong way , she wondered , ‘ I 'm sorry , Father ! |
| 13 | We 're going to have to work hard to keep the swelling down , but as long as he can see out of both eyes tomorrow morning I shall be quite happy to pronounce him fit ! ’ |
| 14 | one or more public limited companies — local authority assets would transfer out of local authority ownership to one , two or three public limited companies . |
| 15 | Surely we must keep out of that arms process , if we are to maintain our nation 's influence in the peace process that we all hope will succeed . |
| 16 | In Damascus some western diplomats argue that the Syrian army will keep out of any fighting , having achieved President Hafez Assad 's political aim of putting him in alliance with Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | Would you say that if this pattern were to be repeated all through the night we would run out of dry-roasted nuts just before the important watershed of midnight , whereas we would still have a surplus of the ordinary variety ? |
| 18 | Apparently the Internet could run out of available addresses by 1995 and the Internet Engineering Task Force is now looking at ways of overcoming address limitations in the current Internet Protocol version 4 standard . |
| 19 | Apparently the Internet could run out of available addresses by 1995 and the Internet Engineering Task Force is now looking at ways of overcoming address limitations in the current IP version 4 standard . |
| 20 | We are now reaching the stage where we will shortly run out of alternative chemicals . |
| 21 | This way the buyer need not fear a situation in which the supplier will run out of essential stock , and the supplier can plan on the long term to optimise his conditions of supply . |
| 22 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 23 | In 1986 , the London Waste Regulation Authority 's annual report stated that London and the commuter belt in the Home Counties would run out of local landfill space well before the end of the century , and counties south and south-west of London would not be able to cope with the burden of the capital 's rubbish . |
| 24 | If the marble is not moving fast enough it will run out of kinetic energy before it reaches the top , come to a momentary halt , and then roll back down again the way it came . |
| 25 | I ju just one point to make , that the children ca n't run out of this area onto , there 's already a stile out of the play area , for that path , before you get to the road . |
| 26 | Confirmation is usually requested where the exporter is unsure of the standing of the foreign bank or is concerned about ‘ country risk ’ — will the country run out of foreign exchange and be unable to pay ? |
| 27 | Eventually , however , the sun will run out of nuclear fuel . |
| 28 | Erm tt yeah but er so anyway whatever strands you can draw out of these things |
| 29 | Moving people has also been tried , for instance by giving housing subsidies to poor people so that they can move out of inner-city slums and rent new homes in the suburbs . |
| 30 | ‘ Forgive my not rising , but I dare not move out of this chair until this wretched hair of mine is dry . ’ |