Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 2 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 3 | Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life . |
| 4 | This is , by definition , neither a penalty clause , nor a limitation of liability up to a certain amount , because it is supposed to be a genuine pre-estimate of the damage . |
| 5 | The Dutch airline KLM is investigating why ‘ many hundreds ’ of birds out of a cargo of 15,000 , including flamingoes , were found dead on arrival from Dar es Salaam at Heathrow , en route to Miami . |
| 6 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 7 | He and Compeyson had got a lot of money out of a rich lady some years before , and Arthur kept dreaming of this lady . |
| 8 | In 1830 , 70 English boroughs had 100 or less voters ; Old Sarum and Dunwich were uninhabited constituencies ; and in 1793 it was estimated that 400 Members of Parliament out of a total of around 530 were nominated or dependent on noblemen in such a way that they were likely to lack the chance to display any real independence of mind in their parliamentary behaviour . |
| 9 | And certainly we have kept the amou the amount of administration down to a bear minimum if I can show you . |
| 10 | He even off-loaded tens of thousands of pounds worth of stock on to a client committed to a mental asylum ( for which he was sacked ) . |
| 11 | The effect was the unloading of a mountain of stock on to a market which was becoming overheated . |
| 12 | The new factory was built on the far side of the property , leaving Barlaston surveying a fine sweep of parkland down to a river widened to look like a lake . |
| 13 | Finally , on the front panel , there 's the master volume knob and the controls for the onboard Alesis reverb/delay unit — a sixteen-notch rotary knob and a ‘ return ’ control for setting the required level of effect , from the tiniest hint of echo through to a nightmare in a bathtub . |
| 14 | Integrating the flux of F out through a sphere centred on the mass gives . |
| 15 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 16 | Some weeks later , I receive a note of thanks along with an engraved beermug . |
| 17 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 18 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 19 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 20 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 21 | And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression . |
| 22 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 23 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 24 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 25 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 26 | You arrange to draw Bills of Exchange up to an agreed limit payable at a stipulated future date — the minimum for each individual bill is £50,000 . |
| 27 | Dame Sirith has 397 lines of dialogue out of a total of 450 . |
| 28 | I find it very difficult to dwell on these serious — even gloomy — thoughts when the sun is shining , the winds light and I have been asked to take a party of visitors out for a boat trip . |
| 29 | and there 's not any reason why once your in you canne put another couple of lines in , and you can even put a couple of lines in on a different number if you want |
| 30 | Mrs Hollidaye spooned some chunks of marrow on to a slice of bread , cut it in half , and put it gently into Dot 's hand . |