Example sentences of "out of [noun sg] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , Labour should wish Major well in all his efforts to get Britain out of recession and to decrease unemployment , as this will unleash other pressures that could help the party . |
| 2 | The children can also become antagonistic towards the parents and refuse to get out of bed or to go to the lavatory . |
| 3 | Otto struck me as looking so out of place as to seem absurd , standing at the cottage door trying to approve our living accommodation , but clearly regarding it as unpromising . |
| 4 | These bombs were produced when lumps of viscous , gas-rich lava were ejected from the vent ; the outer surface of the lump chilled quickly , forming the glassy crust , but the inside remained hot , and the gas trapped within it continued to come out of solution and to expand , forming a spongy mass of vesicles . |
| 5 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |
| 6 | If the forceful approach backfires , then use the participative one to get you out of trouble and to cool the temperature : ‘ My request seems to have made you angry . |
| 7 | He read the letter not out of curiosity but to spare St Ives further embarrassment — the last thing he needed in his present introspective state was a love letter from Dawn Allenby . |
| 8 | What we need , however , is not to stretch consent out of recognition but to examine whether the reasons that validate consent in general and consent to authority in particular can not also be applied to some cases not involving consent . |
| 9 | He also wants to push farmers to take land out of production and to pay them grants if they tend their non-productive land in an environmentally-friendly way or use less chemical fertilisers and pesticides on their crops . |