Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 2 | If that is so , the easiest way out of this battle of the sexes will be for firms to let employees opt out of the company scheme and use their money to buy a private pension . |
| 3 | The decision whether or not to order a retrial lay with the special prosecutor , Des Drummond , appointed to pursue cases arising out of the Fitzgerald Commission . |
| 4 | Kenneth Clarke , the Minister of Health , now proposed to introduce the market mechanism , to give doctors more control over their own budgets and , perhaps more alarmingly to many , to allow hospitals to contract out of the health service altogether if they wished . |
| 5 | The whole hall is convulsed to see children elbowed out of the way while the adults take over skipping ropes and doubledutch , 1920s style , fills the screen . |
| 6 | If you have time available , try to get users to log out of the system before shutting it down . |
| 7 | In order to drive the model servos from the serial port of a computer a protocol converter is required to translate messages squirted out of the port into pulses that the servos can understand . |
| 8 | For its part the UN Security Council agreed to send a high-level mission to Baghdad to demand immediate , total access to facilities , and stated that it was considering issuing Iraq with an ultimatum to produce objects spirited out of the military base where the shots were fired , east of Al Falluja . |