Example sentences of "[adj] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 140 out of 170 employees eventually accepted and , after being interviewed , 30 were given 12 weeks ' notice to terminate their contracts . |
| 2 | SHOOTING : Charlotte Lemmer , the captain of the Gresham 's School rifle team touring Jamaica , won two of the range championships at Kingston , scoring 49 out of 50 at both 500 and 900 yards . |
| 3 | Following several reminders , the final response rates were 91 per cent ( 29 out of 32 ) for probation officers , 58 per cent ( 49 out of 84 ) for social workers , and 46 per cent ( 81 out of 177 ) for GPs . |
| 4 | It was all over by about 9pm : the ruling Barisan had scored a resounding thumping victory — 49 out of 56 seats . |
| 5 | Altogether , judges chaired 118 out of Dr Cartwright 's 358 bodies . |
| 6 | Although the USSR supplies the US with 33 per cent of the latter 's titanium , supply scarcities and limitations in manufacturing capability dictated producing the Mach 2.8 Mig-25 out of conventional steels ( although a titanium version was successfully flown and tested ) . |
| 7 | The Central Electoral Board stated that more than 1,300,000 out of 3,275,000 eligible voters had abstained , the highest abstention figure in the 37 elections held since the proclamation of independence in 1844 . |
| 8 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 9 | While his chums , nervous young Matt , that ambitious new researcher Michael Portillo , fresh out of college , and their boss , Patten , auditioned for starring roles , Mick would play along with the chorus , watching , waiting , taking notes … |
| 10 | Today , it is equally acceptable in most settings to dress like Heidi — or a lady weightlifter , a tart , a 50s magistrate , a navvy , a two-year-old fresh out of the sandpit in vivid flowered dungarees , or an exotic refugee from Kubla Khan 's pleasure dome . |
| 11 | Let's face it , I 'm fresh out of wedding presents . |
| 12 | ‘ We were fresh out of art school , we had nothing , no money , we were alone in the world , but we knew that we were artists , and we wanted to make that the artwork , ’ says George . |
| 13 | ‘ I come up with some of me 'ome-made sausage and onion pie fresh out of me oven . |
| 14 | The firm , System 6 , apparently got a lot of the work done by an engineering contingent fresh out of the Russian Academy of Science . |
| 15 | Another new phenomenon was the downturn in dealers offering works fresh out of the salerooms . |
| 16 | Probably some green kid fresh out of journalism school , anxious to impress . |
| 17 | One tripper on 1960 had been the future Black Dwarf journalist , feminist and socialist , Sheila Rowbotham , fresh out of Yorkshire Methodist boarding school and en route to Oxford . |
| 18 | Mark Williams , freelancing out of It , did some work , and fresh out of Oxford , Jonathon Green was trying to get a job in Fleet Street . |
| 19 | For Dick Pountaine , fresh out of his Imperial College science degree , and moving within Notting Hill 's underground milieu , a visit to the RSSF 's inauguration had been a gloomy experience . |
| 20 | ‘ Unfortunately I 'm fresh out of medals to give you , but — ’ |
| 21 | Generally the cast list is impressive , even if you have to accept that Cruise is fresh out of law school at about the age |
| 22 | Anyway , I plug in , fresh out from playing Walk , Do n't Run and FBI , and John said , ‘ Okay , we 'll do a blues in C. ’ I turned scarlet and mumbled , ‘ What 's a blues in C ? ’ and he said , ‘ Just feel your way through it . ’ |
| 23 | I , I , actually heard that the R S two thousand were , were quite reliable out of most of the sports car , but they did , did have to buy a they were quite expensive , same as top of the range car and their , their top of the range of car was parts of them , especially if they , they , they stopped making them in |
| 24 | Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing . |
| 25 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 26 | Her office was now marked by a frieze of officers , two lounging half in and half out of her door , a third a little behind , the attention of all three directed entirely towards her desk . |
| 27 | By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building . |
| 28 | He is an old man who Mr Browning met in the burning streets of Florence last month half out of his wits and with nowhere to go his wife having thrown him out for what reason I do not know . |
| 29 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
| 30 | Clearing the gap in the reef , the patrol boat drove into a wave and leapt half out of the water like a giant grey killer whale . |