Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heber 's grants from the federal government for raising IQs totalled in the millions of dollars , much more than the usual federal funding level , and the results he claimed were comparably out of the ordinary . |
| 2 | After an early start we were soon out of the city and climbing . |
| 3 | They qualified 17th and 20th and were both out of the race within 15 laps . |
| 4 | Rest days from Ullapool were really out of the question so we either had to take the ship on the long sea passage to Aberdeen or down to Ardrossan . |
| 5 | The new industrial centres were , in fact , quite small at first , and as they were mainly out of the way in unfashionable parts of the country , many people ignored them completely ; one or two distinguished men even had the impression that the population was declining . |
| 6 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 7 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 8 | They were barely out of the club before Rory turned on Adam , no longer able to keep the lid on her simmering anger . |
| 9 | ‘ I only played half the games yet we were never out of the top five and qualified for Europe . |
| 10 | The land was dead and uninhabited , and the carrion birds were never out of the sky . |