Example sentences of "out of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
2 | Take out of a typical day the classes you must attend , the time spent travelling , the hours you sleep , the eating , shopping , meeting friends , relaxing , watching television , listening to music and all the other activities of a busy day , and there is not much time left for study . |
3 | A very strong leading ‘ rogue ’ character played with great guile by Clive Owen emerged out of a solid plot supported by the matchless acting skills of Leslie Phillips . |
4 | to reproduce as a white image out of a solid background . |
5 | Although stimulation of an individual country may not work , joint reflation of the OECD economies may help to get out of a world-wide recession . |
6 | Mankind seeks status even more avidly than wealth , and more self-corruptingly ; and intellectual affectation can be a darker sin than whatever vulgarities arise out of a simple greed for gain . |
7 | the monarchy are non political and therefore , when they choose to speak it 's usually out of a genuine concern for that problem , it 's not for popularity or personal gain because they are there already and , I think that is quite important when po politicians tend to do good it 's usually to get votes . |
8 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
9 | Similarly , your employer , whether out of a genuine spirit of goodwill , a hard-headed assessment of the damage that a court case might do or a combination of the two , may decide that the best course is to seek an amicable parting of the ways . |
10 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
11 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
12 | It had come from nowhere , out of a long silence , like something fired from a gun . |
13 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
14 | As he began to take the cork out of a second bottle of wine , she said , ‘ Look … ’ |
15 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
16 | But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation . |
17 | A YOUNG couple scrambled out of a blazing car 's hatchback as their two friends died in the front seats . |
18 | It will include dual-launch floating point units and be made out of a four-level metal process . |
19 | There are many layers of hurt to peel off before they can see their parent as a human being seeking a way out of a private torment . |
20 | It was made by Noel Alms , of Whitley , near Warrington , who said he made it ‘ out of a warped sense of humour ’ . |
21 | The order allowed a deposit protection scheme to come into operation in the UK , under which depositors ( numbering some 53,000 in the UK out of a global total of around 1,200,000 ) could claim 75 per cent of their deposits up to a maximum of £15,000 . |
22 | The gifts of the Spirit come out of a living relationship with the Father . |
23 | In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality . |
24 | A bout of glandular fever forced McKenzie out of a New Year fight against Jimenez , the WBO 's official leading contender who could have weight-making problems , having been as heavy as 9st 10lbs for a fight . |
25 | The Oldham Stock Exchange developed out of a new class of capitalists not portrayed in the industrial scenarios of Marx and Engels . |
26 | And how we make alliances with women organising in the Labour Movement who have themselves maybe developed out of a Labour Movement that is steeped in the imperialism and racism of this British culture , as any other bit of it is . |
27 | He and Compeyson had got a lot of money out of a rich lady some years before , and Arthur kept dreaming of this lady . |
28 | Two weeks ago he was forced out of a reserve match complaining of cold feet . |
29 | In this connection Kant is somewhat notorious for sometimes seeming to think it better to help those in need out of a sheer sense of duty , without feeling any sympathy for them , than with feelings of loving kindness . |
30 | The Woman 's voice came swimming out of a great blankness , forcing itself on him . |