Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |
| 2 | The institutions themselves succeeded in raising fifty per cent of the price of eleven out of the eighteen drawings and the support of the National Art Collections Fund , the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts has been crucial in raising most of the remaining moneys required . |
| 3 | Can we dispose of that out of the way ? |
| 4 | The angst created by the rapidly decreasing ammo level is great , as is the fun derived from blasting seven shades of brown out of the minions . |
| 5 | Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 2 ( Pen and Sword Books Ltd , 192pp , illus , sbk , £9.95 ) by Ron Collier tells the stories of 26 out of the 50 aircraft that have crashed in the Dark Peak area of the peak District National Park over the past 60 years . |
| 6 | Each one of the forty women made some attempt to complete the test , though the number of statements made varied from three to eleven , with an average of 8.03 out of the desired ten per respondent . |
| 7 | This could not be achieved merely by filling all existing vacancies , however , since the Liberal bloc consisted of 52 out of the 104 seats , and the Liberals could also generally count on the support of at least one independent . |
| 8 | The crimes of detaining a woman against her will with the intention that she shall marry or have unlawful sexual intercourse , and taking an unmarried girl under the age of 18 out of the possession of her parent or guardian with intent that she shall have sexual intercourse , are restricted in the same fashion . |
| 9 | It considered whether the definition of sexual intercourse should be expanded in the case of the relatively insignificant offence of taking an unmarried girl of 18 out of the possession of her parent with intent to have sexual intercourse , and concluded that little would be achieved by doing so . |
| 10 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 11 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 12 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 13 | This coverage was epitomised by a photograph of a demonstrator appearing to kick a policeman in the head , featured on the front pages of seven out of the ten newspapers analysed . |
| 14 | What a queer thing , Uncle Walter phoning like that out of the blue , ’ she said , taking off her coat . |
| 15 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 16 | How would you like to be an innocent old woman quietly doing your knitting , and then get a letter like that out of the blue ? ’ |
| 17 | Modular catering cars retained an orthodox grill for that perennial favourite , the Great British Breakfast , which in 1987 accounted for 630,000 out of the total of 1.1 million main meals served . |
| 18 | The boys obtained significantly higher success rates than the girls for 17 out of the 29 items and the girls were more successful in four . |
| 19 | Though he was opposed to the offer of the Crown to Cromwell in the spring of 1657 , with that out of the way he came round in support of the revised draft of the Humble Petition and Advice ( June 1657 ) . |
| 20 | And , with that out of the way , unless Ven Gajdusek wanted more — and she would n't put that past him — she just had to ask , ‘ Milada Pankracova 's leaving your employ wo n't affect anything , will it ? ’ |
| 21 | The US company had a record number of titles on the New York Times bestseller lists through the year , including two new Stephen King titles and Terry McMillan 's Waiting to Exhale , and started off the year in a similarly cheerful position , with eight out of the 50 bestsellers on the lists . |
| 22 | A federal plan to finance the cleaning up of toxic waste — known as Superfund — was begun ten years ago with 1,200 out of the US 's 40,000 sites being designated as the most dangerous . |
| 23 | This has been the case with three out of the past four successful Labour by-election candidates : a slow but novel way for Mr Kinnock to stamp out dissent in his parliamentary party . |
| 24 | On the playing front out of 88 selected for the divisional team 57 were from state schools and 37 from independent schools , with 16 out of the 23 finally selected from the state system . |
| 25 | It is also interesting to note that for 33 out of the 36 errors , the top rated candidate strings have the same overall word shape as the intended words ( see section 5.3.3.2 for further discussion of word shape ) . |
| 26 | Produces the leading brand of Scotch whisky in eight out of the top fifteen markets in the world . |
| 27 | We share costs , but the cost of living is very low in this out of the way corner of Greece . |
| 28 | Although lay delegates had been tried before — in the 1290s , for example — the frequency of their presence in six out of the last eleven assemblies of Edward III 's reign added a new ( and continuing ) dimension to convocation . |
| 29 | In 86 per cent of referrals ( 43 cases ) there was legitimate reason to investigate even if in 10 out of the 43 cases it was judged that the public concern was inaccurate . |
| 30 | The outcome meant that the SPD was now in government ( either alone or as the dominant partner ) in 10 out of the 16 Länder . |