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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The committee generally are strongly of opinion that larceny , embezzlement and fraudulent conversion should be replaced by a single new offence of theft . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | She had only just been out of hospital then . |
| 10 | ‘ The king awaits me and will soon be out of patience . |
| 11 | He thought he would soon be out of sight . |
| 12 | 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a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 13 | I 'll just be out of place . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The dagger-shaped trefoils in the parabolic arches above were uniformly of blood hue . |
| 16 | Just being out of work is not that bad . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean I 've always been out of sorts , I 've always felt like this — oh , you know — almost as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 18 | The analysis is crazy , the reason why we have a public deficit is because three million people and more are out of work and paying no tax . |
| 19 | He would still be out of work . |
| 20 | Such a list though , would hardly be out of place elsewhere . |
| 21 | If a world chess congress were convened to reconsider the rules for future tournaments , arguments would be made in that congress that would clearly be out of order within a game of chess . |
| 22 | Reckless optimism about 1992 would clearly be out of place — but to hear Mead you 'd think there was a crisis of confidence in advertising not only among clients but among some of the industry 's own leading lights . |
| 23 | He had often been out of work during the boy ‘ s early years in the west of Sheffield ‘ where the city meanders in a smokey , greasy straggle of workshops into Rotherham ’ . |
| 24 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 25 | And this factor of priorities is reflected in the literature directed towards parents , which , though it may often be out of touch with individual parental needs and circumstances , is written within a total social context and expresses closely enough prevailing social trends . |
| 26 | I went home and reported this to Mum who explained to me that the fire meant that a lot of people would now be out of work until the Laundry was rebuilt . |
| 27 | ‘ The House is fronted with white bricks of the best quality , ’ wrote Sir John Soane , its architect , in 1788 , ‘ the steps , window dressings , cornices etc are chiefly of Portland Stone , and the capitals to the pilasters are of Coade 's manufactury . |
| 28 | The habitats dealt with here are primarily of importance for the numbers of wildfowl and waders present during the winter months and at times of passage . |
| 29 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 30 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |