Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 2 | His mother says it 's not the first time a window has fallen out of a school coach , and she 's calling for action to make the buses safe . |
| 3 | If a once beautiful and honest young girl has become dishevelled and has dropped out of a promising educational course and is in perpetual trouble with the Police , then it is almost superfluous to ask questions on drug use or to look for physical signs of drug addiction , even though clinical accuracy demands this . |
| 4 | About 1,000 people , or 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce , have left since Mr Habgood 's arrival , while Bunzl has come out of a number of low-margin and loss-making businesses . |
| 5 | The music of Taizé has grown out of a particular context , culture and spirituality and it effectively serves the need of the ecumenical community for which it is composed . |
| 6 | The sponge skeleton has weathered out of a limestone . |
| 7 | BORIS BECKER has pulled out of a third tournament , the Tokyo Grand , which begins on Monday , because of a nagging knee injury . |
| 8 | CRYSTAL PALACE manager Steve Coppell has pulled out of a Pounds 150,000 deal to sign Yugoslavian international defender Vujadin Stanoikovic from Partizan Belgrade . |
| 9 | VIOLINIST Nigel Kennedy , 35 , has pulled out of a Brighton show next month to watch football favourites Aston Villa . |
| 10 | Lawrence has pulled out of a £400,000 move for Charlton striker Robert Lee . |
| 11 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 12 | An insurance company has pulled out of a plan which would have created fifteen hundred jobs near Swindon . |
| 13 | When the human voyager has freed himself from his fears and accomplished all his physiological needs , it is as if he has climbed out of a deep pit and reached the top of a high hill from where he sees a vast land stretching in every direction . |
| 14 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 15 | But because the demand for central control has arisen out of a general dissatisfaction with education , and this dissatisfaction is often directed towards an excess of ‘ creativity ’ in the classroom , a lack of a disciplined work-force , it is generally assumed that the central common curriculum to be nationally accepted would be down-to-earth , factual , able to be assessed , and marked by a tick or a cross . |
| 16 | ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ has strayed out of a metropolitan novel into a provincial one which wo n't accommodate it . |
| 17 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 18 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 19 | Albright was a dedicated and effective philanthropist , his early interest in phosphorus having grown out of a concern for the health of match-workers . |
| 20 | Most players would prefer a chip shot from grass rather than having to play out of a bunker . |
| 21 | predisposing the Chinese to think of blood as circulating and of the earth as having condensed out of a more fluid state ( hence the fossil sea shells found up in mountains ) . |
| 22 | And in fact some of the the erm the that you look at now , could have walked out of a Dickens novel . |
| 23 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 24 | Reality , in the form of banality , seemed very precious to Anna , a token of having stepped out of a nightmare into the sanity of the waking world . |
| 25 | Indeed , they might have stepped out of a mid-period Patrick White novel . |
| 26 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |
| 27 | Do you know the theory that Louisa Musgrove ought to have fallen out of a gig , but Jane Austen could not bear it because of poor Mrs Lefroy ? … |
| 28 | Ladd 's Shane , like villain Jack Palance , seems to have ridden out of a simpler , morally clear-cut Western , and is bewildered by this now-complex and difficult situation . |
| 29 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 30 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |