Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] of an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 2 | Someone had scratched the eyes out of an otter on the litter campaign poster . |
| 3 | With the help of a co-operative credit analyst who is three months out of an English degree , we package a stunning little credit that sweeps through the loan committees without even a flesh wound . |
| 4 | Always , as worms out of an apple , as maggots out of meat , mutants emerged and fled — if they could — into the hinterland . |
| 5 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 6 | The Department of the Environment alone by 1988 was spending half a billion pounds out of an Action for Cities total , involving most Home departments , estimated at £3 billion . |
| 7 | The sensation in her vulva was quite pleasurable , but not to be compared with the quiet delight of teasing people 's thoughts and feelings out of an unfamiliar language . |
| 8 | Kinsai was constructed on top of a plug of volcanic rock which rose sheer for almost a thousand metres out of an almost perfectly flat and featureless plain . |
| 9 | Among the most accurate are the magnetic and capacitive systems ; a capacitive system can offer accuracies around of an inch — sufficient for engineers and draughtsmen — while the magnetic method is potentially even better . |
| 10 | Among the most accurate are the magnetic and capacitive systems ; a capacitive system can offer accuracies around of an inch — sufficient for engineers and draughtsmen — while the magnetic method is potentially even better . |
| 11 | It would dearly like ( as one railway manufacturer has proposed ) to rip the diesel engines out of an existing HST and replace them with electric engines , and then use this train for tests . |
| 12 | It really had all the hallmarks almost of an execution . ’ |