Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [adv] of " in BNC.

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1 He started to distinguish himself as an athlete of no mean promise and , understandably , invitations to meetings out of the area were forthcoming .
2 This was extended in 1980 , 1981 and 1982 to all gifts and to distributions out of settlements .
3 fear , all the time , if anybody to steps out of line or
4 The former will cling rigidly to formulae regardless of the situation , nit-picking over tiny detail but sometimes unwittingly missing the larger issues .
5 ‘ , ‘ Fish ! ’ and ‘ Meat pies ! ’ and on every corner stood tipplers who sold drinks to passers-by out of small , iron-hooped barrels .
6 Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings .
7 The full extent of his generosity to museums and galleries ( leaving that to individuals out of account ) is known only to those who have , or had , charge of them .
8 You 're used to things out of packets . ’
9 When the buyer calls to sign the transfer or lease , see that any mortgage or other document requiring a signature ( such as an undertaking to a building society to carry out specified repairs ) is engrossed and ready for execution at the same time , to avoid unnecessary attendances ; and if you wish , you can let your client sign any undertakings as to outgoings instead of doing so on your client 's behalf ( Chapter 7 , head 2(c) ) .
10 David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School .
11 Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business .
12 But , melancholy as the deserted and shattered city might seem to a casual visitor , to men out of the line it spelled life .
13 ‘ Just sit there , side by side , like a couple of bloomin' honeymooners … then pay her off , and get to blazes out of it . ’
14 We believe that each individual is both unique and equal to others regardless of sex , nationality , colour , creed , class , intellectual ability or emotional , social , physical handicap .
15 The facts that they do fearful things to themselves and to others regardless of consequence and that they are unaware of the connection between cause and consequence are the essential psycho-pathological nature of addictive disease and denial .
16 Expenditure patterns will shift to services instead of goods : education , arts and entertainment , leisure , communal activities and personal development will all play a bigger part in our lives .
17 The fact that English tends to make these ‘ order errors ’ is not particularly surprising since its system of tenses and conditional structures allow easy reference to events out of sequence , for example :
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