Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [adv] of the " in BNC.

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1 If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ?
2 They can hold the dog , as it is likely to try to leap out of the bath .
3 Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled .
4 Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night .
5 To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft .
6 It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks .
7 He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna .
8 ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’
9 This is handy , for we can thus spot potential danger and react rapidly to input gleaned out of the corners of our eyes .
10 She laughed a little nervously , unable to help noticing out of the corner of her eye that the little crowd which had gathered was melting rapidly away now that official help had arrived .
11 A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid .
12 For example , in a fast-moving train it is better to look at the horizon than at the close landscape — it is even better to avoid looking out of the window .
13 The reason for their exclusion , despite the government 's professed desire for parent power , was that parents and governing bodies were known to be likely to reject opting out of the ILEA .
14 Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn .
15 and erm , but I I have to say that I , I do believe that we need to address more particularly er the transport a aspects of this and the planning aspects of it which , I think er are tending to get eased out of the er agenda , any way , if I may say er in respect of trading standards and the legal aspects of er the , the er produce that 's being sold there .
16 Thus , many users prefer to stay hidden regardless of the problems that this might cause their families or themselves .
17 ‘ They 're going to have to come out of the forests … ’ he replied , with a grin like a Cheshire cat .
18 KENNETH Clarke appears to have dropped out of the smart betting for the succession to Mrs T , no doubt because he has been landed with the mucky end of the Cabinet stick .
19 ‘ He seems to have come out of the race very well , but we 'll know how well by next week , ’ said Francois Boutin .
20 One of the most important results to have come out of the work is the demonstration that similar molecular those in other larger and more conventionally studied organisms .
21 Control children who were found to have died or to have moved out of the study area before their matched case had cancer diagnosed were replaced .
22 I seem to have done most of the talking .
23 She plans to emblazon each badge correctly and hopes one day to have done all of the RAF 's badges , Squadrons , Groups , Wings , Commands , Stations — in all a staggering 2,500 plus !
24 The bare infinitive thus seems to have shifted out of the field of the future or the subsequent in a similar way to , and at the same time as , the present-tense form .
25 How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door .
26 Later , Emerson was to continue racing in other forms , in the US Cart championship and elsewhere : the bug was still in him , success came occasionally , but the spirit seemed to have gone out of the man .
27 With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century .
28 A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees .
29 The pressure to change emerged out of the recession in the early 1980s and the increasing incursion of the Japanese into world markets with productivity levels light years ahead of European competitors .
30 North was also said , early on , to have worked out of the basement of the White House .
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