Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The shipyard was opened in 1940 and rebuilt in 1986 along with the tidal wall .
2 By late June the total number detained had dropped to 4,214 out of a total of approximately 7,000 detained since January .
3 The Assembly voted by 126 out of the 208 votes cast to appoint Janez Drnovsek , chair of the Liberal Democratic Party , as the new Prime Minister-designate .
4 In total more than 60 companies have applied for 122 out of the 435 blocks in the first two stages of the 14th offshore licensing round — the biggest response for 20 years , according to energy minister Tim Eggar .
5 The situation which has applied in two out of the last three years , when percentage cuts or hold-backs were applied across the board by Management , is incompatible with the special factors involved in Library financial management .
6 The outlines of Freud 's later theory were made available in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego ( 1921 ) , the first mention of the death instincts having been made in 1920 in Beyond the Pleasure Principle .
7 By 1600 , its population had grown to 200,000 out of a national population of 3.5 million .
8 In 1910 Japanese living in Korea totalled 171,500 ; by 1942 this had risen to 752,823 out of a population of over 26 million ( 2.9 per cent of the population ) .
9 Coventry Workshop , one independent research , education and advice centre , founded in 1975 out of the Home Office-sponsored Community Development Project , tried to service a range of community and trade union organisations .
10 Pale-breasted Brent Geese were noted in 14 out of the 29 winters between 1947/48 , and 1975/6 , with a total of c. 130 birds in all .
11 It was formed in 1913 out of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , together with the General Railway Workers ' Union and the United Pointsmen 's and Signalmen 's Society ( Bagwell 1963 ) .
12 Switchboard was formed in 1974 out of an alliance between the old Gay Liberation Front office collective , who donated the office , and Gay News , who donated the publicity and energy to get it off the ground .
13 The Cadillac Automobile Company was formed in 902 out of the remnants of one of Henry Ford 's early attempts at building cars , and the company 's backers turned to Leland for help .
14 The number of operators available to answer emergency calls at any one time will be reduced from 2,000 out of a trained total of 8,000 , to just 150 .
15 And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town .
16 Spotted Crakes were recorded in 17 out of the 30 years between 1947 and 1976 , with a total of 26 birds seen .
17 The societies had been created in 1964 out of the committees which were set up to organise the 1963 commemorations of the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone , the leader of the United Irishmen and martyr of the 1798 Rising .
18 One of the world 's top 10 computer manufacturers , Unisys was created in 1987 out of the merger of two smaller companies , Burroughs and Sperry .
19 Some of the tenement farmers there leased a family holding for five , six or seven generations under the Tudors and Stuarts , and old-established surnames accounted for four out of every five entries in the Myddle parish register .
20 The basic pension is payable according to a contributions formula which stipulates that to gain a full pension , sufficient contributions have to be paid in nine out of every ten years of a ‘ working life ’ ( i.e. paid employment ) .
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