Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The bill is being paid by the Ministry of Defence out of public funds , and lawyers say the amount spent on the case contrasts with new guidelines introduced by the Lord Chancellor to reduce costs for legal aid .
2 Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar .
3 Oh I 'll get a lot of response out of that .
4 The landlord had obviously decided he could make a lot of money out of this rehearsal room lark .
5 " Is that a fact ? " said Manciple , and the sergeant said , " You 'll maybe be getting a bit of money out of this series , then ? "
6 I mean , this is why Hollywood you know can make a lot of money out of some pretty horrifying movie , the th the kind of thing I could n't go to see er cos I get the willies , I ca n't bear that kind of thing , but some people enjoy being frightened do n't they ?
7 branching to one course of action out of two possibilities depending upon the result of a mathematical , textual or logical condition
8 However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things .
9 get hours of pleasure out of this .
10 Angus Wilson claimed to have read and reread Richardson 's Clarissa , for all its immense bulk , starting at the age of eighteen , admiring above all its triumphant creation of fantasy out of realistic detail — a realism made transcendent — though he also admired the ‘ God 's eye view ’ of the great nineteenth-century novels .
11 The NRA , which traditionally wielded a degree of influence out of all proportion to its 2,600,000 members , as usual forcefully combated the bill .
12 What they actually you can get a lot of stuff out of that .
13 But Saddam had to just play the whole game , and er , he must have got a lot of propaganda out of this , must n't he ?
14 And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him .
15 But it is a fair assumption that many young refugees fell foul of authority out of sheer frustration with undemanding and tedious work , usually at subsistence wages .
16 The rough , boggy going combines with the forbidding beauty of the heights looming on both sides to create an impression of seriousness out of all proportion to the difficulties underfoot .
17 I derived a great deal of amusement out of this because he got so carried away , huffing and puffing , and once he unleashed a mighty kick with ‘ Take that , you bastard ’ , sadly forgetting that he was still chained at the time .
18 there does n't seem to be any sense to it really but you can try and make a bit of sense out of some of it not all of it but some of it you can make a bit of sense out of it yes .
19 Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ?
20 Made to high standards of craftsmanship out of exquisite materials , this is a catalogue that brings vicarious pleasure in luxury living , which in itself was one of the arts of Islam .
21 Assume that every person needs seven days of training out of each 221-day working year .
22 He uses a special tool called a cheese iron to pull a long plug of cheese out of one truckle from each day 's production .
23 Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod .
24 A ‘ new illegal Party ’ , it was somewhat picturesquely alleged , seemed in the process of creation out of all those — evidently disparate individuals and groups — united in their opposition to National Socialism and forming on that basis their assessment of domestic politics and the war situation .
25 Erm do you think it would be an idea if we made a sort of table out of this ?
26 ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us .
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