Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] of [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has dropped out of school because he is not interested in studies . |
| 2 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 3 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 4 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 5 | ‘ Kicked out of Oundle before I had a chance to get to grips with the first line of the Aeneid , if you want to know the truth . |
| 6 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 7 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 8 | For this reason the golfball picture of the planet , with regular internal layers and smooth , uniform demarcation zones , has fallen out of favour as it has encouraged what are probably quite wrong estimates of temperatures at the core . |
| 9 | Indeed , BA would almost certainly have pulled out of negotiations if it had thought a referral was likely . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether I 've spoken out of place because I 'm not a member of Salisbury park but on the assumption that erm that we would have to share in the |
| 11 | See we 've run out of buns cos you had one yesterday and that makes one er , there was two there |
| 12 | All she had taken out of Ireland when she had fled had been the money she had made there and her trade — and her trade was that of a Madam . |
| 13 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 14 | This poem hints that we can go beyond the form of the ritual only.to be horrified by the realization that there is nothing there , or there is only some petty squalor , meaning having receded out of sight if it was ever present in the first place . |