Example sentences of "out of a [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Sports Illustrated report confirmed scientists ' suspicions that as many as 600 porpoises each year were dying in entanglements in the Gulf , out of a total population for the East Coast of the US and Canada of perhaps only 8000 . |
| 4 | Firstly , a research programme should possess a degree of coherence that involves the mapping out of a definite programme for future research . |
| 5 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 6 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont did not eat their words out of a cavalier regard for the truth and a penchant for duplicity at election times . |
| 7 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 8 | The theme of this chapter has been that a great deal of antislavery argument grew out of a fundamental concern for proper order in the world . |
| 9 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |