Example sentences of "out of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 3 the Hamas-backed Islamic bloc won 10 out of 11 seats in elections to the Ramallah and al-Bira Chamber of Commerce . |
| 2 | Rachel has been lapsing in and out of horrific hallucinations at Liverpool 's Broad Green hospital since she took half a tablet of Ecstasy at a party 11 days ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 5 | It is only a matter of time before somebody decides to rubbish the whole global warming theory out of sheer desperation at finding a new angle . |
| 6 | His body , out of sheer force of sexual habit , wanted her ; his brain , despite the ravages of the previous night , was sending out warning signals . |
| 7 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 8 | Flavio 's latest work is a twenty five ton sculpture made out of solid rock in Norway . |
| 9 | New words are coined or borrowed or made out of combined parts from existing words ; the meanings of old words gradually shift . |
| 10 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 11 | For firm B a going concern qualification would correctly predict failure only one time in five , while for firm C a going concern qualification would never be ‘ correct ’ in this sense , even though four times out of five investors in C would see a very substantial diminution in their wealth ( assuming an investment based on expected present values ) . |
| 12 | FOUR out of five shopkeepers in Dublin have been victims of crime , a new survey has revealed . |
| 13 | The results were not at all encouraging : four out of five hams on sale in delicatessens , a third in supermarkets and almost half of those in butcher shops were contaminated . |
| 14 | Four out of five graffiti in male lavatories had a sexual theme , while on the other side of the wall only one in four of those created by women dealt with overt sexual subjects ; love and romance seemed to be their principal occupation . |
| 15 | In his will , Barnes gave Lincoln , a small black institution in rural Pennsylvania , the power to name four out of five trustees to the foundation board . |
| 16 | As a snub to the wealthy Philadelphia establishment , just before his death in a fatal car crash in 1951 , Albert C. Barnes willed the power to name four out of five trustees of this foundation to Lincoln University , a small , predominantly black college in rural Pennsylvania established in the mid-nineteenth century to educate former slaves . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Three out of five people in the Third World have no easy access to clean water . |
| 19 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 20 | The old fabric biplanes were entirely satisfactory but then they were made out of small pieces of wood , they were well ventilated and they were kept in good dry hangars . |
| 21 | Money cascaded on to Henry Cecil 's filly , including one individual bet of £50,000 to £55,000 , but in the end she was even edged out of second place by Line Of Thunder . |
| 22 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 23 | In 1605 at least forty out of seventy-five holdings of less than 60 acres in Arden were sublet . |
| 24 | European companies , however , have argued that they are cut out of parallel efforts in America , and in particular from Semantech , a big industry project in which IBM plays a key role . |
| 25 | Mr Alms , who described himself as retired but who runs Investment Chartwork , a firm of ‘ economic forecasters ’ , said : ‘ I suppose you could say I made it out of warped sense of humour . |
| 26 | However , it should be pointed out that contests between Labour and the Conservatives took place in only 91 out of 165 wards in the capped authorities in both 1986 and 1990 . |
| 27 | Describing it variously as a lark and a spree , The Times was satisfied that although ‘ genteel ruffianism has met with a very decisive rebuff ’ , the Cremorne affair was nothing more than something done ‘ on the impulse of the moment , and out of pure love of mischief ’ . |
| 28 | It was reported from Bulgaria in 1989 that the trees in 25,000 hectares out of 35,000 hectares of silver fir forest were severely damaged or dying . |
| 29 | Islamabad has told Afghan rebel groups to move arms dumps out of populated areas of north-west Pakistan where a huge explosion killed upto 40 people last week . |
| 30 | If they hit it , it would rip the bottom out of Golden Girl in less than a second . |