Example sentences of "[verb] pass [adv] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Carter , 21 , of Darlington , has passed out of the School of Recruit Training at RAF Swinderby near Lincoln as Best Recruit of his Intake .
2 Having collected his swimmer in phase one or two , the paddler now set course for the submarine rendezvous , beaming the infra-red light seawards in phase three and then , in phase four shorewards when the submarine might have passed inshore of the canoe .
3 As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town .
4 ‘ I asked ( I was trying to fit in what we 'd heard of him ) about his having passed out of the Ecole Normale so high , which had rather impressed me .
5 They had passed out of the daylight into the comparative dimness of the castle interior .
6 Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) .
7 We have passed out of the realm of programme making into the realm of action .
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