Example sentences of "out from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Althusser 's interpretation of Marx can not , in the nature of things , live up to its own ideal of a theory which has no starting point , it follows the life-cycle of persons who are born into a web of relations and social conventions in starting out from a complex whole made up of practices . |
| 2 | They can be up to 200ft ( 60m ) in diameter and are mostly constructed of stones , with a rim , and spokes radiating out from a central cairn . |
| 3 | Use a logical progression or a system radiating out from a central base . |
| 4 | It is physiologically unsettling to gaze out from a dark patch into a brighter one . |
| 5 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | We are still drying them out from a recent visit to the laundry . |
| 7 | Oh God do n't wan na do my fucking musical , I 've got ta make a flipping piece of music out from a stupid scale . |
| 8 | And despite the suits , which give them the air of ex-cons , just out from a time-warping jail sentence , they also seem younger than their 50 years apiece . |
| 9 | Yet these were islands standing out from a motionless sea : ten thousand individuals at the most . |
| 10 | But since interviews can be carried out from a single base , it is a very economical and efficient way of contacting a large number of speakers from a wide geographical and social sample . |
| 11 | Each year , your ‘ profits ’ from the scheme are worked out from a formal table and the total of all these annual sums constitutes your pension . |
| 12 | This mode of political religious action no longer starts out from a universal centre and figure , such as the papacy , but rather from the national or local church within the state , whose ‘ magistrates ’ — Calvin 's term for lay political leaders — are ideally Christians of moral rectitude , who perform this duty as one ordained by God . |
| 13 | Two minutes later , in the far corner by the hollyhocks , the Bishop 's chaplain , with an unobtrusiveness which suggested considerable social aplomb and boded well for his making the bench himself in due course , levered the Bishop out from a tight knot of clerical wives . |
| 14 | Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe . |
| 15 | Standing beside one of the giant tubers , its massive arms radiating out from a bulbous centre , he is dwarfed by its tallest limb . |
| 16 | An ancient black Volkswagen , covered with vicious spikes and fitted with all-black windows , slipped out from a back street lock-up in Sheila na gigh . |
| 17 | In the academic year 1980–81 , the school 's finances ran severely into the red and it had to be baled out from a special government reserve . |
| 18 | A rough-looking youth with long black unkempt hair and with a muffler about his neck suddenly sprang out from a disused barn standing close beside the lane . |
| 19 | More than 400 birds were coated with oil when 50 tonnes of crude oil spilled out from an opened valve as the Cypriot-registered tanker Worthy discharged her cargo at Fawley Refinery . |
| 20 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 21 | There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine . |
| 22 | And modern salinometers will automatically compensate for the temperature and pressure and do this conversion so you can get a direct read out from an electrical instrument of the salinity . |
| 23 | The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project . |
| 24 | The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project . |
| 25 | When water flows out from an artesian well in a confined aquifer , none of the pore space drains completely . |