Example sentences of "things [to-vb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 In my opinion this was one of the few good things to come out of our membership of the Common Market .
2 The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure .
3 Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that .
4 Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes .
5 I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes .
6 Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes .
7 That gave it a high spot on her list of things to put out of commission .
8 It was imperative too to keep cool and not allow things to get out of proportion .
9 Thus , it is possible for things to get out of a black hole .
10 The Empire was not built by allowing things to get out of place .
11 But you must surely understand that I never meant things to get out of hand like that . ’
12 Finding things to make out of unwanted household rubbish will always be technically difficult .
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