Example sentences of "out [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 2 | What a load of bull … the bidders fight it out for the best of British beef . |
| 3 | When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students . |
| 4 | There 's six share it out between the two of us . |
| 5 | Okay so we 've got one pizza share it out between the two of us we get ? |
| 6 | Well what they mean when they say a half of a quarter is that we had a a quarter and we 've shared it out between the two of it so we 've got half to that each . |
| 7 | Er in terms of contact they will also make a decision giving days and times of contact if it ca n't be worked out between the two of you . |
| 8 | Now out of that two we 'll say well share it out between the four of you take a quarter each . |
| 9 | Here we are there 's your two pi two pizzas now share that out between the six of us . |
| 10 | So that you 'd get move those round a bit so that you 'd get Say that pizza came in like that and your mum sat down there said , Right we 're having some pizza we 're going to share this out between the three of us so we all get the same sized piece . |
| 11 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 12 | And the other group of ten have another ten pounds , and so you 'd get , each group of ten would have one pound shared out between the ten of you . |
| 13 | And , Miss Rene ’ — she paused here and put her hand out towards the eldest of the sisters — ‘ you gave me my first book , a book of poems . |
| 14 | Out of the hundreds of pictures that my husband Bob Turner and I took , we decided to publish a book by ourselves of 130 images showing the life , culture and people of Calcutta . |
| 15 | Out of the hundreds of people I interviewed , only once did I genuinely fear for my job . |
| 16 | Life has improved immeasurably since the first provincial premier , Joey Smallwood , began coaxing his people out of the hundreds of little ports that were accessible only by fishing boat and into more urban living . |
| 17 | The titles of my lectures were all the same , but my name appeared beneath only four out of the five of them . |
| 18 | When it was easy to reach this man whose spirit was born out of the best of the desert traditions . |
| 19 | Clerical representatives , after all , sat in it almost as often as their lay counterparts who consented to lay subsidies : in seventeen out of the nineteen of Edward II 's parliaments to which knights and burgesses were summoned there were also clerical proctors present . |
| 20 | Erm , what we have to do is to look at , if you like , the way in which A , we can improve what we do erm , and see if we ca n't get more out of the two of you than we do currently , I 'm sure you 'll enjoy what we 're doing . |
| 21 | I 'll get in touch , I 'll give her a ring , because we actually , we were looking erm out of the twelve of you altogether we were looking for six of you to actually have your feet washed on Maundy Thursday evening at the , at the , the mass at the service on Maundy Thursday evening . |
| 22 | By lunchtime he had narrowed his search down to three out of the dozens of girls missing in the London area . |
| 23 | The Devil , wriggling out of the last of his knitted tail , wiped the shiny grease off his face and neck before strolling over . |
| 24 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 25 | But a God who can bring good out of the worst of evils is wholly in control . |
| 26 | The fertilized egg is a narrow bottleneck which , during embryonic development , widens out into the trillions of cells of an adult elephant . |
| 27 | ‘ Giles said he and Ursula had been out with the two of you . |
| 28 | A complaint by a disturbed or malicious client , an injudicious act carried out with the best of intentions , even the possibility of undue personal involvement might all have this unfortunate result . |
| 29 | Much has been said about what a Labour Government could and could not do , but I am certain that a Labour Government would set out with the best of intentions to improve the situation . |
| 30 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |