Example sentences of "out of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
| 2 | But to make a trim and coherent job out of a mass of scribbles is , Dear Reader , nothing but a pipe dream . |
| 3 | The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects . |
| 4 | if the man comes to read the gas meter it will always be when you were supposed to be somewhere else half an hour ago and you 've got one leg in and one leg out of a pair of tights . |
| 5 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 6 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |
| 7 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 8 | need drawers as well , dr drawers out of a chest of drawers make |
| 9 | Another American artist , Rona Pondick , creates disturbing assemblages out of a mixture of materials ( for instance : a wooden beam , a row of white shoes and a cushion , all held together by frayed nylon cords , the ends of which spill onto the floor like white seaweed ) . |
| 10 | The victory on paid holidays was achieved out of a mixture of motives , an amalgam of control and progressive reform . |
| 11 | Eliot sees London as unusual among big cities in having grown up gradually out of a grouping of villages and concludes that ‘ there is something about England which remains stubbornly attached to the parochial ’ . |
| 12 | All students take a strategic management course in the spring and summer terms and in addition have a free choice of four out of a range of options . |
| 13 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 14 | Whatever it was , it sent her flying ; one minute she was up , the next lying in an uncomfortable heap , half in , half out of a pile of brambles that was growing around the base of a tree in a haphazard , choking sort of way . |
| 15 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 16 | The rewards of happiness and contentment and security , I see as mostly drawn out of a routine of things . |
| 17 | Succeeding generations of farmers built flood banks to create arable land out of a web of rivulets . |
| 18 | we have joined with other organisations and persuaded the World Bank to pull out of a number of projects that threaten to destroy forests . |
| 19 | A head stuck out of a clump of spectators at the 7K mark : ‘ Come on Jonesy , all Barbados wants you to win ’ . |
| 20 | This divergence of views can be seen ( following Mathewson and Winter , 1984 ) as arising out of a set of externalities . |
| 21 | His latest project , Praxis , involves space bassist Bootsy Collins , chainsaw guitarist Buckethead , keyboards wiz Bernie Worrell , drum-maniac Brain and beat demolisher/ex-Jungle Brother At Next Man Flip-Lord Paradox ( aka Afrika Baby Bam ) , all thundering the funk out of a set of tunes that sound as though they were composed on Mars . |
| 22 | Selection of a suitable topic for investigation out of a set of possibilities can be made through the application of a number of criteria which can act as a useful screen for filtering out unsuitable topics . |
| 23 | Purchase of Target out of a group of companies |
| 24 | Out of a group of trees near by a rook flew , winging its way leisurely across the Park towards him . |
| 25 | Tylers the Company that won the tender when Crawley District Council put it out of a bunch of gangsters and on the first of February Crawley District Council awarded under C C T their refuse contract to Tylers as the cheapest tenderer . |
| 26 | Exercise — the carrying out of a sequence of acts under the pupil 's own ‘ control ’ or constructive recall of related facts ( eg , in making definitions ) |
| 27 | ‘ The Rumbelows League Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester United at Old Trafford would have knocked the stuffing out of a lot of teams . |
| 28 | Erm it 's around it comes out of a lot of things . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been in and out of a lot of jails in my time . ’ |
| 30 | We could be closed out of a lot of markets if we do n't employ environmentally sound principles . ’ |