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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | Three days before you go away make sure you do a proper clean up of the tank . |
| 9 | Careful to stay out of the way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |
| 14 | So far as is known , nothing definite came out of the meeting between Castro and Khrushchev in New York in late October 1960 , despite all the drama attached to the Soviet head of state 's seeking out the Cuban leader at his hotel in Harlem . |
| 15 | Current trainer John Hyland is keen on the dog taking his chance in the St Leger after Shy bowed out of the Irish |
| 16 | He said Sabine rushed out of the study , saying she was not going to wait on the boat any longer . |
| 17 | However , even those murders in real life that rise above the simple snatching up of the kitchen knife in the middle of a husband and wife row are much , much less cunningly contrived than that . |
| 18 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 19 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |
| 20 | ‘ Sharing is n't attractive any more to us , ’ Bromley says , a verbal throwing in of the towel . |
| 21 | Lancing 's master-in-charge , John Wilks , described the scoreline as ‘ a perfect summing up of the match — dull ’ . |
| 22 | I was invigorated and felt seven feet tall going out of the church . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 25 | Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys . |
| 26 | It would be rude to look out of the car windows |
| 27 | So far , the discussion of this turning-point and the debate over the direction of change has been conducted mainly in terms of what kind of manufacturing sector is likely to emerge out of the economic downturn . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A rapid tidying up of the encampment was carried out . |
| 30 | Obviously the snake arrangements required intervention by domestic monetary authorities when currencies looked likely to break out of the 2¼ per cent band . |