Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 2 | That 's when the jokes about the missing bit started , for ring doughnuts look just like traditional ones with a bit taken out of the middle . |
| 3 | Elean:Lauretta Ngcobo , another South African writer , in her introduction to your book , described you , as a writer coming out of the upsurges of your people 's consciousness and activities of the 70s , and reflecting those upsurges going on to the 80s . |
| 4 | Moreover , the examples Couturier gives are of multiple discrete points of view carefully distinguished within the novels in question ( The Sound and the Fury , Pale Fire ) , whereas the mutable point of view employed in Verbivore is a technique developed out of the possibilities inherent in print , but moving toward the mutability of cybernetic text . |
| 5 | A Perk struggled out of the lift ; another . |
| 6 | Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual . |
| 7 | A spring fell out of the engine . |
| 8 | This was a figure plucked out of the air by the Commission who know that the scale of fraud is not adequately monitored . |
| 9 | Pouf , man , you 've let yourself be scared by a figure plucked out of the clouds . |
| 10 | Just then he heard footsteps approaching and a figure loomed out of the fog in front of him . |
| 11 | ‘ Christ , look out ! ’ shouted Pearce as a figure blundered out of the elevator . |
| 12 | This is n't just a figure drawn out of the air unlike councillor , I can actually back it up because I 've got the detail of that budget . |
| 13 | THERE IS A LIGHT popping out of the holes where the tiles have slipped on the roof of the Big Barn nowadays . |
| 14 | A soldier came out of the old jailhouse , rifle held lightly in one hand , barrel pointed down . |
| 15 | The script , about a soldier taken out of the trenches not , as he fears , to be shot , but to organize an army concert party , is just a rudimentary framework within which to present a number of variety turns . |
| 16 | A laburnum growing out of the midst of it was in flower . |
| 17 | I wolfed down my lunch , charming a second helping out of the all-smiles stewardess . |
| 18 | If God is truly to begin again , then he must start with a child born out of the blue , a child most decidedly of his making . |
| 19 | A bloke jumped out of the boat , ran past me , over the swing bridge and opened it up . |
| 20 | By selling security X short and investing the proceeds in a portfolio made up of the risk-free asset and security Y , a riskless return may be obtained . |
| 21 | In the late afternoon , with the red sun setting and the dust from the caravans crossing the plain hanging on the air , the whole edifice looked like a monolith rising out of the depths of a brooding red sea . |
| 22 | New merchant and professional classes arose and a proletariat developed out of the peasantry . |
| 23 | After about half an hour a girl came out of the gate , her tartan shawl held round her with rough , reddened hands . |
| 24 | A waiter came out of the car-park of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 25 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 26 | He climbed the stairs , paused for a moment to look out of the landing window at the bay in sunshine , then continued on up . |
| 27 | He paused for a moment to glance out of the window . |
| 28 | The real value , however , is in a general tidying up of the interface to ensure portability . |
| 29 | Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time . |
| 30 | The other is by being representative of the majority of actual bureaucrats , rather as the average reader of a newspaper like , say , The Times is simply a profile assembled out of the actual features of actual readers . |