Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 2 | Traditional epics taken from Frankish oral poetry also commanded Charles ' interest , and he had several of these copied out into formal texts . |
| 3 | Furthermore , some of those singled out for attention , judges , politicians and so on , occupying roles which attract attention and ( sometimes ! ) respect , have clearly been endowed with exceptional qualities , of intellect and personality . |
| 4 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 5 | But with only five runners declared - and two of those pulled out before racing - she decided to take the plunge . |