Example sentences of "out of [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four out of five of the 11. 6 million children aged under 16 in Britain in 1986 were living with both their natural parents ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | At any one time only two out of five surnames in the parish were those of this hard core of families , but four out of five of the total entries belonged to this group . |
| 3 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 4 | In this connection it is relevant to note that 84 per cent of the sample had consumed alcohol prior to the commission of their current offences and three out of four of the convictions for previous offences had been drink-related . |
| 5 | When monkeys were offered hundreds of different kinds of insects , many brightly coloured and many others with dull patterns and colours , only one in five of the bright ones were eaten , while three out of four of the dull ones were eagerly gobbled up . |
| 6 | Additionally , a presumptive positive result was recorded for any sample if three out of four of the sections examined were positive for the IS 6110 polymerase chain reaction . |
| 7 | On July 29 the Northern Ireland appeal court in Belfast released three out of four of the former Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) members imprisoned for life in 1986 for the 1983 murder of a Catholic man [ see p. 34318 ] . |
| 8 | This is in part a function of reduced manning levels on modern ships , particularly container vessels , but it also reflects the flagging out of much of the fleet to flags of convenience . |
| 9 | Bredekis , a former heart surgeon , said that 15 out of 17 of the Cabinet had previously smoked . |
| 10 | Yesterday , she again said that 9 out of 10 of the journeys carried out by ambulance workers were concerned with non-emergency work . |
| 11 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 13 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 14 | She saw a black labrador paddle out of one of the breakwater pools and shake itself , in a flurry of spray . |
| 15 | He stuck his head out of one of the windows of the coach , and roared protests at the policemen who were desperately trying to cope with the traffic confusion . |
| 16 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 17 | A German came out of one of the huts . |
| 18 | When Jean returned from the Ladies there was no sign of either of them , for at the end of the dance they had slipped unnoticed out of one of the wide-open fire exits and around the back of the hall where only courting couples went . |
| 19 | Allen went across and peered out of one of the arrow-slits . |
| 20 | Our panel this month included Paul Boutinot of Paul Boutinot Wines the north 's leading shipper , who trotted out some wines form his own stable of Champagne look-alikes ; Bill Towers who must be unique in Britain because as a sheep farmer in the Lake District he runs a very successful wine merchants out of one of the barns on his farm . |
| 21 | As her eyes scanned the yard , she caught sight of him coming out of one of the stables . |
| 22 | Opponents of the project to remove the road have been quick to point out that to reunite the expanse of archaeological remains carries a political subtext of cancelling out of one of the most potent symbols of Mussolini 's fascist State . |
| 23 | A temporary repair was made and they flew on to Karachi , where the damage was found to be worse than at first suspected , as the fastenings had pulled out of one of the fuselage verticals . |
| 24 | FIG. 2 Translocation of 11 C-labelled photosynthate out of one of the cotyledons of a tomato seedling which had been pulse-labelled with 11 CO 2 at time zero . |
| 25 | A subsequent ramp built on to a fire exit out of one of the rooms was better , though the aforementioned student had long since left . |
| 26 | Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover . |
| 27 | It was just happened to be spotted by Richard , fortunately , whilst he was erm , between jobs and actually being up a steps , walked in a saw the smoke coming out of one of the er , main switch areas . |
| 28 | Alexei was leaning out of one of the upper windows . |
| 29 | And I could tell you another story as well , I maybe used to pinch an apple out of one of the barrels . |
| 30 | As he turned the door handle to enter the building he saw a storm-trooper come out of one of the side rooms . |