Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She frequently sat up in the wee sma' hours staring out of the window . |
| 2 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 3 | In the litigation in the English Courts arising out of the collapse of the International Tin Council the question was raised whether the Tin Council had a cause of action against its own members . |
| 4 | Ethnic Serbian deputies walked out of the session , and formed on Oct. 24 the " Assembly of the Serbian Nation of Bosnia-Hercegovina " , fixing a plebiscite on remaining in Yugoslavia for Nov. 9 and 19 . |
| 5 | And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window onto Britain 's already polluted streets . |
| 6 | I watched his shaking shoulders go out of the gate and disappear round the corner . |
| 7 | Ghostly shapes loomed out of the fog and then disappeared again . |
| 8 | There 's still fleece on the outside , so once the drizzle or the rain starts , a waterproof needs to come out of the sack . |
| 9 | Personal Computer World ( January 1993 ) — the free disk has been removed and the accompanying pages torn out of the journal . |
| 10 | Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 11 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 12 | This will allow before and after studies of accidents to be made , this enabling the success rate of remedial actions developing out of the accident analysis to be measured . |
| 13 | For example , if your love life is thriving you can manage to maintain your diet , but as soon as there is an upset , or things are not going to smoothly , then your dietary resolutions go out of the window ? |
| 14 | Connelly 's haunting , purposeful vocals seep out of the cut at strange angles , spoken rather than sung , whilst the melody is bolstered by seductive female whispers that gently flit past , all knotted together over a boomy bass laden communication . |
| 15 | They debated more precise targeting of benefits , and persuading high earners to opt out of the state pension . |
| 16 | Wet brown arms reached out of the pool and shook my hand . |
| 17 | There is , in a sense , an ideology of scepticism within clearly defined boundaries and as old men die out of the system and younger ones join it the tradition becomes cumulative and socially-constructed rather than just an individual matter . |
| 18 | There were mounted men spilling out of the defiles and patches of dead ground on both sides of the plain . |
| 19 | The manual is not only one of the most interesting documents to come out of the Sultanate , it is also one of the most precious keys we have to the concerns that meant most to the war-obsessed amirs of Tughluk Delhi . |
| 20 | German tanks roll out of the mist like giant indestructible daleks to crush and dismember the incompetently , corruptly-led GIs . |
| 21 | You can expect to receive compensation for all direct expenses arising out of the accident , including the cost of private medical treatment , extra travelling costs and other expenditure directly related to your injury . |
| 22 | Some 80 per cent of all Madagascar 's species are unique to the island-continent , which stretches a thousand miles long , with rainforest , woodland , spiny desert , and rocky massifs jutting out of the plain . |
| 23 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 24 | Kenneth Baker , the Secretary of State for Education , met with opposition to his proposals to weaken the structure of state education , notably by allowing comprehensive schools to opt out of the secondary system , and by giving more powers to parents in running schools , a latent veto for the middle-class . |
| 25 | Bored gauchos sit out of the wind , sucking yerba maté from gourds ; their horses munch at the thin grass in a desultory fashion . |
| 26 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 27 | Pesh Framjee would like to see ‘ incorporated charities taken out of the Companies Act and only reporting under the Charities Act , or if that is not possible have them report under both . |
| 28 | The then Labour Party Defence Minister Itzhak Rabin , speaking in March 1989 , had insisted that additional costs arising out of the IDF 's operations in the occupied territories did not exceed US$140,000,000 per annum . |
| 29 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 30 | AFTER the uplifting win at Shrewsbury the gallant Quakers move out of the bottom four in Division Three and up to chairman Dick Corden 's stated target of fifth bottom . |