Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British . |
| 2 | Rather there should be only one set of notes for each subject regardless of source . |
| 3 | This is not something that attendances allowance should be , should be used to pay for , and I think that unless we look at it very carefully indeed , and we perhaps get around to having a proper chairman for each committee instead of this sort of er , bugginses chart er , we 're going to be faced with , with lots of difficulties . |
| 4 | Before the dredged dock and diesel hydraulic lift was installed a crane had to be hired for each lift out of , and each life back into , the water , at considerable expense . |
| 5 | The 1976 Act specifies in Sched. 1 the types of licence which a board may grant , including the nature of the premises in respect of which any particular certificate may be granted and the authorization conferred on the licence holder by the licence , and provides for specific offences instead of prosecutions for breach of certificate . |
| 6 | As with section 6 , it is important to remember the difference between unascertained goods out of a specific bulk ( e.g. Howell v. Coupland ) and purely generic goods . |
| 7 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 8 | A number of engineering firms had redundancy pay schemes granting compensation considerably in excess of that required by law and available to all those dismissed for economic reasons regardless of their length of service . |
| 9 | As the name suggests , this consists of bouncing the light off reflective surfaces instead of aiming it directly at the subject . |
| 10 | Well , we certainly ought to try , and if we ca n't then there 'll be a very good case for generous compensation out of the secret funds . ’ |
| 11 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 12 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 13 | But on that particular winter 's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use , and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox , a colleague from his lordship 's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall . |
| 14 | Like his friend ( and the undergraduate Darwin 's scientific hero ) the physicist John Herschel ( 1792–1871 ) , Lyell followed earlier writers , most notably the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid ( 1710–1796 ) , who had drawn this moral from the superior evidential credentials of the Newtonian gravitational force over the Cartesian ethereal vortices : any causes invoked in an explanatory theory should , ideally , be known to exist through direct observation independently of the facts they are supposed to explain . |
| 15 | WIMBLEDON champion Andre Agassi is set to make his tournament comeback in Germany tomorrow after eight weeks out of action through a wrist tendon injury . |
| 16 | Agassi boost : Andre Agassi is set to make his tournament comeback in Germany tomorrow after eight weeks out of action with tendonitis of the right wrist . |
| 17 | Although Karbacher 's best results have come on clay , he still threatens to give Agassi playing his first match in Halle , Germany , today after eight weeks out of action with a wrist injury a rough ride . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old German put out former French champion Michael Chang at the French Open last month and will be an awkward test for the American who plays his first match in Halle today after eight weeks out of action with a wrist injury . |
| 19 | But he does not believe the English game has fallen behind technically , simply because of the Eighties ban from club competition , saying : ‘ After six years out of Europe our national side finished in the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 20 | He had lain in one of the lofts above the storehouses for several days , weak and sick after zig-zagging cross-country ahead of the hunt , moving by night in this foul summer , and lying up in woods and trees by day . |
| 21 | The trial was halted after one year instead of the planned three after 20 per cent of patients taking only zidovudine died compared with only 10 per cent of those taking a ‘ cocktail ’ of zidovudine and acyclovir . |
| 22 | But insiders close to Blundell confirmed the deal was agreed and says he is almost certain to return after one year out of competitive Formula One racing , during which he won the Le Mans 24-Hours classic alongside fellow Briton Derek Warwick . |
| 23 | Time and again , Marco Polo boldly goes where no recording company has ventured before , pulling wonderful surprise after wonderful surprise out of the hat , and this is as good as any of them . |
| 24 | After four years around of quarter of them had developed AIDS and ten per cent had died . |
| 25 | After two years out of the limelight , the 31-year-old comic is bouncing back with his new film , Boomerang |
| 26 | The result was that after two years out of racing , Niki asked Ron Dennis to give him a private test — mainly to assure himself that he had not lost his skill and that he could face the new world of FI wing cars , quicker and much more road-adhering than the old generation . |
| 27 | ‘ I came back after two years out of the ring because boxing 's in my blood and because I feel I can win the title . |
| 28 | PSV Eindhoven 's stadium , for example , has standing room for 12,000 supporters out of a capacity of 28,000 . |
| 29 | PSV Eindhoven 's stadium , for example , has standing room for 12,000 supporters out of a capacity of 28,000 . |
| 30 | Repeating submissions made in December 1991 , it is further suggested that the requirements for a property to be let for 26 weeks out of a 52-week period — before an individual is allowed a deduction in respect of interest on a loan to purchase the property — is too restrictive in the present state of the property market . |