Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life . |
| 2 | EVEN in these less affluent times , there are those who are happy to buy expensive , muddy carrots instead of bright orange ones at half the price , or an expensive piece of beef instead of a cut-price special offer . |
| 3 | He stood up and went over to an escritoire and took a piece of paper out of a drawer . |
| 4 | Er , fifteen er , schemes that were actually funded by the Department of Health out of a hundred and fifty bids , and the funding available , a hundred and fifty thousand pounds per year , er , up to the period er , ending thirty first of March ninety five . |
| 5 | Purchase of Target out of a group of companies |
| 6 | It is absolutely essential that each parcel should be described with such particularity and precision that there is no room for doubt about the boundaries of each , and for such purposes if a plan is intended to control the description of part only of a building , an Ordnance map on a scale of 1:2500 is worse than useless ( Scarfe v Adams [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 843 ) . |
| 7 | Dame Sirith has 397 lines of dialogue out of a total of 450 . |
| 8 | To her shock and horror his head swooped down and as his mouth claimed hers so impassionately a flash of hope surged in her heart like a spear of lightning out of a blackened sky . |
| 9 | His book starts , for instance , by making a sort of sense out of a nonsense letter of Lear 's of 1862 and proceeds from there , through a rag-bag of examples , towards a theory of the Remainder which now becomes central rather than marginal , or at least just as central as the rules of Langue . |
| 10 | It is a spin-off from development work done on the Kodak disc camera , which has a circular disc of film instead of a roll , and lets very amateur photographers take usable photographs in unfavourable light . |
| 11 | What I really could not understand was why the senator did not beat ten kinds of nonsense out of a son who told him to cool it , but telling middle-class Americans to thump their kids is like asking them to burn their flag , so I did not waste my time . |
| 12 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 13 | The longing for home embodies the feeling of loss not of a place , but of time , and , if I understand your teaching aright , we must not cling to it , but turn outward to the real world . |
| 14 | If she left a dictionary in the cupboard , by heaven , she 'd get a good game of Scrabble out of a can of alphabet soup . |
| 15 | In 1830 , 70 English boroughs had 100 or less voters ; Old Sarum and Dunwich were uninhabited constituencies ; and in 1793 it was estimated that 400 Members of Parliament out of a total of around 530 were nominated or dependent on noblemen in such a way that they were likely to lack the chance to display any real independence of mind in their parliamentary behaviour . |
| 16 | I said to him we made her a cup of coffee out of a teapot that was bought and she says she was talking about it . |
| 17 | I was n't keen on the deep-fried banana served with many fish dishes , and the habit of using photos of food instead of a menu . |
| 18 | You 've got a total income coming in , er a total amount of benefit there of a hundred and three pounds thirty for this family . |
| 19 | He and Compeyson had got a lot of money out of a rich lady some years before , and Arthur kept dreaming of this lady . |
| 20 | And you would n't get a lot of heating out of a hundred electrons . |
| 21 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |