Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] 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 | SPIT THE PIPS , one of the most bizarre bands to have ever come out of Middlesbrough , come to Darlington tonight . |
5 | Two of the world 's leading buyers have recently dropped out of the market . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
8 | Stars have always gone out of their way to watch them |
9 | One of the young men had just come out of prison , and there were many cheerful jokes about his very short hair-cut . |
10 | Children have not grown out of behaviours which were acceptable when they were much younger . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
13 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
14 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | but er one of our major competitors has just gone out of business so we 'll get a spin off from that both in both in estates er and in the hotel scene so |
17 | 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 . |