Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the Five Nations have almost run out of time . |
| 2 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |
| 3 | Rich blacks have indeed moved out of the ghettos ; but estate agents , anxious to protect property prices , still steer even rich blacks away from the nicest , lily-white suburbs . |
| 4 | Two of the world 's leading buyers have recently dropped out of the market . |
| 5 | But , having been seduced into housing packages by the government and the building industry , it is they who must foot the bill — the government wo n't help and many firms have either gone out of business or seek immunity behind a labyrinth of legal protection . |
| 6 | Football clashes between the age-old rivals have ground to a halt partly because outpourings of nationalism have sometimes got out of hand . |
| 7 | Stars have always gone out of their way to watch them |
| 8 | Tony Tucker , Tony Tubbs , James Smith and Trevor Berbick have all tumbled out of the top 10 and Biggs is now ranked 27th . |
| 9 | And despite ( or perhaps because of ) all the loans and all the aid , the net effect is that billions of dollars have actually moved out of the poor countries and into the rich countries . |
| 10 | How can a cycle covering such an immense time-span have ever evolved out of random mutational steps ? |
| 11 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 12 | Those in F and A have now dropped out of use ( perhaps one of the most recent scores in which parts are written for trumpets in F is Vaughan Williams 's ‘ London ’ Symphony , which was composed shortly before the war of 1914–18 ) and though many modern composers write for the C trumpet the B ♭ instrument is used in this country almost exclusively . |
| 13 | In relation to churches serving other denominations , it has been the case until recently that Roman Catholic churches have rarely fallen out of use , although the general decline in religious observance is beginning to affect some of these buildings too . |