Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee . |
| 4 | Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system . |
| 5 | Neighbor to Neighbor were delighted with the free publicity provoked by the row , but have been effectively frozen out of TV advertising — since P&G made its announcement , only one other TV station has run the advert . |
| 6 | When he is eventually hounded out of America and into exile by J Edgar Hoover ( Kevin Dunn ) it is an ignominious end to his career . |
| 7 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
| 8 | Age-related classifications became more common ; older people were inexorably shaken out of the labour market and portrayed as an unproductive ‘ burden ’ on the rest of society ; and most important of all , the concept of mandatory retirement was institutionalized in the 1946 National Insurance Act . |
| 9 | Inevitably many marine creatures became extinct when their habitats were literally squeezed out of existence . |
| 10 | He was like a goldfish , suddenly tipped out of its bowl into a pond , conditioned to continue swimming in circles . |
| 11 | The South African foreign minister , Mr Pik Botha , publicly threatened to abort Namibian independence and was apparently cajoled out of it by Mrs Thatcher , who was in Windhoek when the trouble began . |
| 12 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 13 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
| 14 | When one considers the amount of time , effort and money involved in the preparation of those papers and the hearing of them it is , in my opinion , becoming essential to ensure that the number of frivolous appeals ( some of which are perhaps made out of ‘ cussedness ’ to cause the officers involved as much trouble as possible ) is reduced . |
| 15 | An outline of the settlement of the barbarians in Gaul up until the 450s is necessarily made up of fragments from a variety of sources , not all of which are in agreement . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's much too much made out of nudity , ’ she shrugs . |
| 17 | They are rightly fed up of people carrying out their business so blatantly . |
| 18 | For : very nicely made out of very posh wood , well finished , with a good chunky neck and that very practical compound radius fingerboard , with top-class hardware to finish it off ( the Wilkinson is deservedly this year 's tremolo , while both the locking Schallers and the Seymour Duncans are excellent ) . |
| 19 | It is almost entirely made up of Issaq people , the clan of northern , formerly British , Somalia . |
| 20 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 21 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 22 | And the Castle was not entirely made up of sadness and shadows . |
| 23 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 24 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 25 | What put the top hat on it was , when we came back , Debbie sat on the sofa and cried ‘ Mum , I 'm so fed up of being amnesic ’ . |
| 26 | Little boxes , all made out of ticky-tacky , we sneer , even though that song was written by an American , Tom Paxton . |
| 27 | The article was accompanied by that old picture you 've all seen before of Jonny Woodward on Beau Geste at Froggatt , described in the caption as a ‘ prime potential target for bolting ’ . |
| 28 | Lozano , son of Mexican immigrants in El Paso , Texas , apparently felt out of place at Harvard . |
| 29 | Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor . |
| 30 | One thing , yesterday , we were talking about my wonderful stick man , here he is basically made up of his personality , a number of attitudes and outward behaviour . |