Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Tucker , Tony Tubbs , James Smith and Trevor Berbick have all tumbled out of the top 10 and Biggs is now ranked 27th . |
| 2 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 3 | Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice . |
| 4 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 5 | 1838 " A Motion was made , seconded , and carried , that the Receiving houses and Post Runners hitherto paid out of the General Meeting Assessment should in future be discontinued . " |
| 6 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 7 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 8 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 9 | GRAEME SOUNESS had no complaints after watching Liverpool easily dumped out of the European Cup Winners Cup by Russian champions Spartak Moscow . |
| 10 | At Leamington , in May 1920 , the coalitionists were finally driven out of the Liberal party . |
| 11 | Grindingly backward , it 's hardly moved out of the 19th century . |
| 12 | Elsewhere the sources are precariously reconstructed out of the edited work itself . |
| 13 | County boroughs totally opted out of the surrounding county council 's affairs , but for the other types of subordinate authorities the situation was complicated because they performed some functions for themselves while other functions in their areas , such as education , were run by the county council . |
| 14 | The Socialist League , which , it will be remembered , had deliberately kept out of the United Front , accepted the need for Communist affiliation at its Annual Conference on l June 1936 . |
| 15 | Their rank and file supporters were also rooted out of the Labour Party in a flurry of activity throughout 1939 . |
| 16 | The two are not closely associated , because the white star is the closer to us by some 15 light-years , though presumably both condensed out of the same nebula which produced all the rest of the Hyades . |
| 17 | In a meritocracy , talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata . |
| 18 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 19 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 20 | It is impossible to regard the Government 's actions as effective negotiation when they have simply opted out of the two basic economic and social issues and have left an empty chair in the European Community . |
| 21 | At twenty he had not quite grown out of the gangling stage either in the control of his long limbs or in the expression of his most deeply felt thoughts and emotions . |
| 22 | He fell three short of his century this time , and once again no one else got out of the twenties , but 221 still proved too much for England . |
| 23 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 24 | The Reaver Knights are commonly made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |
| 25 | History , which can now no longer be considered a concept as such , is therefore made up of the incommensurable relation between these two disjunctive set-ups . |
| 26 | And despite ( or perhaps because of ) all the loans and all the aid , the net effect is that billions of dollars have actually moved out of the poor countries and into the rich countries . |
| 27 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |