Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
| 2 | Playing to audiences of 20,000 or more in America , England , France , Austria and Italy at the end of last century , Annie could split playing cards in two with a .22 pistol , shoot glass balls out of the air from the back of a galloping horse or over her shoulder using a mirror for sighting . |
| 3 | The insectivorous bats use such an intricate system of echolocation that they can pluck flying insects out of the air in total darkness . |
| 4 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |
| 5 | You ca n't just pull ideas out of the air . |
| 6 | Do n't ask me to pluck figures out of the air , but it was a reasonable rent , and they were paying for the rates , and their electricity , and their water supply , and their sewage disposal , on permanent sites . |
| 7 | Our philosophy is that it 's not just conjuring twenty five thousand pounds out of the air , it 's actually changing the way the Corn Exchange is and we feel strongly about that but we are not going to waste your time going through all that . |
| 8 | I would also like to point out that antivivisection organisations , do not hatch up their facts or repeat facts out of the air ; they come from individuals as knowledgeable as any vivisectionist . |