Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] of [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more unkind observers have already wondered whether it looks rather two-faced or even like a pair of out of shape knickers . |
| 2 | Pop music history is littered with examples of out of court settlements as a result of unlicensed sampling . |
| 3 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 4 | Tomorrow night we travel to Potosi the highest town in the world where Oxfam is working with the families of out of work miners as they try to find other ways of making a living . |
| 5 | In Northern Ireland , the catholic schools ' sector is provided for out of state funds , and remains under the governorship of the local clergy , now assisted by laity and members of the local educational and library boards . |
| 6 | They were devalued , if you like , by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 7 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 8 | If they are not reasonably constant , then not only is the model er a poor one , right , within sample but it ca n't really be used for out of sample predictions , because although on average er our coefficient that we estimate it might be nought point five , then the out of sample could well be minus six or something like that . |
| 9 | Tribunals are only cheap in the sense that no fees are payable on filing claims and that allowances are generally paid for out of pocket expenses in attending the tribunal . |
| 10 | Moreover , autofocus lenses have the annoying habit of frequently being confused by the aquarium glass , resulting in out of focus photographs . |
| 11 | Today , with competition first from high street supermarkets and now from out of town hypermarkets , they are an endangered species . |
| 12 | These are the environments that , in terms at least of summer climates , most closely match milder parts of the northern tundra . |
| 13 | This gap in expertise reduces the capability , at least of opposition members , to scrutinise government activities effectively . ’ |