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

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1 ( e ) Limited contracting-out It may still be possible to contract out of the implied obligations owed under supply contracts .
2 He was staring at the glove box now , he was too low to see out of the window .
3 That goes out of the window when you become an outlaw .
4 If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line .
5 In the course of the journey one of them , an RAF pilot , had been shot dead trying to jump out of the train in an attempt to reach an Italian fighter plane on an airfield and fly it to Yugoslavia .
6 It 's an insult to feminism and I 'd like to know how much that cost out of the rates .
7 It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house .
8 This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics .
9 The ANC 's first warning that it was prepared to pull out of the CODESA talks came on June 21 , when the organization 's president , Nelson Mandela , declared that the negotiations process was " in tatters " .
10 And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question .
11 George Tinsley , of the Tap and Barrel 's owners the North Yorkshire Brewing Company , said : ‘ This came out of the blue , it was a total surprise . ’
12 This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations .
13 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 .
14 Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality .
15 This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes .
16 We need to do this to clear out of the way , before we go any further into the study of social policy , a most misleading and widespread false assumption about the character of our subject .
17 Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage .
18 A log rolled and half fell out of the grate , making Robyn jump suddenly .
19 Three days before you go away make sure you do a proper clean up of the tank .
20 This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy .
21 This handing over of the Conservative party , in Denis Healey 's phrase , ‘ from the estate owners to the estate agents ’ , has been a process upper class Tories have watched with distaste .
22 Careful to stay out of the way .
23 Whatever their riders might desire , those English mounts broke , reared , panicked , cannoned into one another to get out of the way , and doing so caused utter confusion and collapse amongst the enemy .
24 Nomes had to scramble over one another to get out of the way when one of the floorboards in the manager 's office was pulled up .
25 That is , to the extent that the responses were the result of critical reflection they clearly show that left policies were lacking in credibility and attractiveness , yet insofar as the responses represented an uncritical carrying over of the ‘ media ’ line this would seem to suggest that the concerns of the left failed to strike the masses as of immediate practical importance ; the left policies can not have appeared to meet the practical needs of the working class , or else the Labour identifiers polled would not have been content to reiterate the media line with regard to those policies .
26 A woman of about 30 lurched out of the Post Office in front of us and staggered down the road a few steps before falling — her exposed thighs and palms making a sickening ‘ slap-smack ’ sound on the pavement .
27 Its precise effect on the allocation of investment resources would depend on the detailed working out of the disciplines , and the Treasury certainly took no chances on a complete return to the free market in investment capital .
28 If one makes the more realistic assumption that the GDP growth rate would fall from 3 per cent to nearly zero over this decade then the figure of 4.5 million unemployed comes out of the Cambridge computer .
29 The presidential year does cost the individual money ; if it is decided that one 's partner goes to dinners then this comes out of the individual 's pocket and is not subsidised , at least in my case , by anyone else , and it is entirely a matter of personal choice as to how this part of the arrangements is made .
30 As far as coverage is concerned , this comes out of the definition of the target group and the media available to reach it .
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