Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain .
2 But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices .
3 It is especially easy to see out of and manoeuvre in tight spots , which is why , apart fro anything else , you see so many of them being driven so aggressively in heavy traffic .
4 I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’
5 Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence .
6 The sentences are less likely to run out of puff in mid-stream and trail off into inaudibility .
7 The machines also hold more cash , making them less likely to run out of money over weekends and at busy periods .
8 It is much better to get out of bed and return after a short period when you feel more tired .
9 The tucuxi is , however only half the length of the boto , and is thus less able to break out of gill-nets when captured .
10 The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates .
11 Oh I 'm sure it would mean an awful lot to them and the fact that you 're so successful coming out of Ireland would mean a lot to them as well you know and er er it 's nice to be able to er you know to do that for them if they 've been over here living for you know some of them have never been back maybe and some of them have never seen Ireland because maybe their their parents or their grandparents came from there .
12 These patients can experience many kinds of problems when in a different environment such as increased stiffening of the back and limbs due to lack of exercise because they find it so difficult to get out of the hospital chair ; and incontinence for the same reason .
13 Dr. Goldsmith 's comment was that if the man was physically fit to break out of his cell , he should have been fit to do the lighter task of breaking stones .
14 There 's not many left out of the companies .
15 It was proved that night that it was not difficult to escape out of Berwick , however hard it might be to enter it .
16 ‘ To me , it is just nice to get out of Leeds for a few weeks .
17 What am I most likely to get out of this if I do it ?
18 He favours careful risk assessment , which should enable regulators to concentrate on those ( like Maxwell ) who look most likely to step out of line .
19 I think that is a lot of infection about and I know what brought on my cold , it was going out with Mark to Lathenham , and instead of wearing my anorak I only wore my lambs wool throw over , and I got jolly chilled coming out of the car and going into Lathenham church .
20 Rather than travel out from Highgate , it seemed more sensible to move out of London and travel in to town .
21 ‘ We must have a five-point plan for autumn safety : 1 ) Get all poisonous plants clearly labelled ; 2 ) Put government health warnings on toadstools ; 3 ) Secure all dangerous-looking branches ; 4 ) Spread polythene sheets beneath all major leaf-producing trees ; 5 ) Have a national warning system for cold days on which apples , conkers and so on , are much more likely to fall out of the trees and cause these horrendous injuries . ’
22 The rest of the poem is concerned with the social causes of human misery : the Female Vagrant tells us that This is dismissed by many critics as ‘ tainted with Godwinism ’ , but I can not myself see that lines like these are ever likely to become out of date .
23 And it is always better to settle out of court , says Nina .
24 Species with good jumping ability are more able to get out of pits than are species that can not jump ( Rackham , 1982 ) .
25 By arriving early in the evening I can fish both periods , and it would be time-consuming and much more tiring to get out of bed in the middle of the night to arrive at the water before first light and to stay until 1.30 the following morning .
26 The latter have always found it more difficult to move out of cities than owner occupiers , because of the limited availability of private-rented accommodation outside the large cities and because of the barriers limiting transfers between council housing areas .
27 The theory of an original simplicity about the good Galilean carpenter Jesus , which was surrounded with supernatural stories and so corrupted and made complicated , began to look far more doubtful ; at least , more difficult to get out of any evidence available .
28 The into-wind wing must always be kept down by moving the stick across a little into wind , and it is always necessary to rudder out of the wind .
29 And , of course , we 're always ready to step out of he background and be with you on site .
30 If you are planning to give a particularly large sum , it is always more advantageous to give out of income by covenant than to give a capital sum .
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