Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 2 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Both had been returned by huge majorities , having long been out of office . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 3140 Number of items in is out of range : |
| 7 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The committee generally are strongly of opinion that larceny , embezzlement and fraudulent conversion should be replaced by a single new offence of theft . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | She had only just been out of hospital then . |
| 12 | ‘ The king awaits me and will soon be out of patience . |
| 13 | He thought he would soon be out of sight . |
| 14 | 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a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 15 | I 'll just be out of place . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The results have to be published and should not be only of interest to the client group who put forward the proposal . |
| 18 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 19 | But if the consensus is one of conviction , then dissent , however surprising , will not be out of order in the same way , because everyone will recognize that an attack on the substantive case for the proposition is an attack on the proposition itself . |
| 20 | Nina wanted to keep holding hands , and hurried the sleeves over her arms so they would not be out of contact for long . |
| 21 | But however great the wife 's contribution , the order to her should not be out of proportion to the total assets and had to do justice between the parties . |
| 22 | This may not be out of unwillingness but rather ignorance on the part of parents : they do not know how to go about encouraging such skills . |
| 23 | Although Digital has never put a figure on the number involved in what it terms the downsizing of its operations , the company 's president , Robert Palmer , has said that those figures would not be out of line . |
| 24 | Progress should be slow and cautious , and not be out of step with Britain 's other major foreign policy concerns , the Commonwealth and the United States . |
| 25 | At least the newly painted floor would not be out of commission too long . |
| 26 | But in the crazy world of intelligence that would not be out of place . |
| 27 | The Shepherd 's Week ( 1714 ) , though clearly a burlesque , used images of agricultural life that would not be out of place in the work of Duck or of Mary Collier . |
| 28 | It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place . |
| 29 | The results range from the almost predictable ( say the unsettled but distinctly South African ‘ township ’ feel of Lullaby ) to the totally unpredictable , ; the title track is indeed just that , ranging from a tight , boppy ensemble that would not be out of place as a riff in a Basie band arrangement and transforming ( metamorphosing — see ? ) into a complex interweaving of improvised joint soloing against rhythmic drumbeats and back again . |
| 30 | A brief note about power supplies might not be out of place here . |