Example sentences of "out of a [adj] " 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 | Out of a million worlds , what did one matter ? |
| 4 | A hundred times out of a hundred , a million times out of a million . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | to reproduce as a white image out of a solid background . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am in favour of PR , out of a simple democratic belief in representing the wishes of the population as fairly as possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | Lambs by the Est-a-Laine Merino out of a Hardy Speckledfaced ewe . |
| 16 | It had come from nowhere , out of a long silence , like something fired from a gun . |
| 17 | I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 20 | As he began to take the cork out of a second bottle of wine , she said , ‘ Look … ’ |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
| 23 | But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation . |
| 24 | Initially , it promised repayment out of a future parliamentary grant , but most lenders , possibly all , were still waiting to be repaid in 1529 , when Parliament absolved the King from all obligation to redeem this debt . |
| 25 | A YOUNG couple scrambled out of a blazing car 's hatchback as their two friends died in the front seats . |
| 26 | It will include dual-launch floating point units and be made out of a four-level metal process . |
| 27 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 28 | Probably ninety-nine people out of a hundred come to The Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales only after reading The Lord of the Rings . |
| 29 | ‘ Ninety-nine times out of a hundred a kid will tell you what he thinks you want to hear , ’ Vito said . |
| 30 | Convinced , like the even more outspoken Gustave Le Bon , that ‘ Out of a hundred Hindus educated in English schools , there are a hundred who are irreconcilable enemies of British power ’ and that the export of democratic institutions would simply be a form of national suicide , for Harmand it was the lesson of Santo Domingo that counted : the Caribbean negro slave revolt of 1795 which , ten years later , led to the surrender of a French army . |