Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ they both asked at once , and immediately both laughed , more out of relief than humour . |
| 2 | There was no doubt a certain amount of wishful thinking in these common beliefs that gang fights represented some kind of scaled-down patriotism , but Britain 's military preoccupations were never too far out of sight when Hooliganism was on the agenda , involving reversals such as these on the Hooligan 's worth and character . |
| 3 | She ran the last few yards and was breathing heavily , but more out of anxiety than exhaustion . |
| 4 | Heather Lloyd , defending , said they had committed the crimes more out of ignorance than malice and that their customers had not been unhappy . |
| 5 | But this is more out of opportunity than necessity . |
| 6 | Motorists are being warned to avoid driving into York city centre over Easter with St George 's Field car park , one of the city 's busiest , out of action while flood defence work continues . |
| 7 | He was a fellow Scot and alcoholic and the union was born more out of desperation than love . |
| 8 | Charlie climbed out after him and , screaming at the top of his voice — more out of fear than bravado — charged towards the barbed-wire . |
| 9 | There is also the danger that small , local agreements spin out of control as trade imbalances grow among their signatories . |
| 10 | At a private meeting in Westminster five officers of the 1922 back-bench committee were warned that they faced being voted out of office as punishment for persistent opposition to the Government on the bill to implement the Maastricht treaty . |
| 11 | All through trains ceased on the GC in the early hours of 4th September 1966 , when signal boxes were locked out of use until demolition began at the turn of the year . |
| 12 | She rescues him , drives him out of town as dawn starts to break and leaves him in a wheatfield . |
| 13 | The sterling/ Deutschmark rate would seem to have been particularly out of kilter when account is taken of the rise in Britain 's unit costs against those of Germany . |
| 14 | Between was set out on paper as theory and what actually happened in practise . |