Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | It broke Perdita 's heart that Ricky , who 'd only been out of top-class polo for three years , was totally ignored . |
| 3 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 4 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 5 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |
| 6 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 7 | He had only been out of his house for two nights so he was not going to start to do criminal things . |
| 8 | Both had been returned by huge majorities , having long been out of office . |
| 9 | The wearing of beards had long been out of fashion at Rome : as we have seen , the contenders for power at the death of the Republic imitated the clean-shaven kings of the Hellenistic world . |
| 10 | ‘ After all , they have n't long been out of a very warm secure environment , have they ? ’ she continued . |
| 11 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 12 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 13 | So as the result it will only be out of eight not out of ten . |
| 14 | moment and so is out of our catchment area . |
| 15 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 16 | When he thought back to those years in the Army , and the year immediately afterwards , it seemed to Jackson that he and Ross had scarcely been out of one another 's company . |
| 17 | She had only just been out of hospital then . |
| 18 | ‘ As for me , I think he was tougher because I was a girl — one who felt that any kind of talkback would have just been out of order . |
| 19 | And you 'll soon be out of here in any case . |
| 20 | The ‘ tendentious ’ story would soon be out of the way , making possible a return to what Dostoevsky thought was much more important , the Life of a Great Sinner project . |
| 21 | The calculation of Turkey 's president , Turgut Ozal , is that Iraq will not attack Turkey and that Saddam Hussein will soon be out of a job . |
| 22 | He thought he would soon be out of sight . |
| 23 | ‘ The king awaits me and will soon be out of patience . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll soon be out of here . ’ |
| 25 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd best be out of here , Richie , ’ Carradine said . |
| 27 | It 's all we can do , and perhaps we 'll really finally be out of it . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll just be out of place . ’ |
| 29 | For instance , if in constitutional law you are directed to write a note on the ‘ kangaroo ’ ( a method of curtailing discussion in the House of Commons ) , a discussion of the closure and guillotine ( two other methods of curtailing discussion ) would generally be out of order . |
| 30 | Just being out of work is not that bad . |