Example sentences of "[verb] out by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 2 | In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour . |
| 3 | WIMBLEDON reserves , the club 's second-string Crazy Gang , were booted out by Southampton after allegedly causing hundreds of pounds of damage to changing rooms . |
| 4 | Her head smarted painfully where several strands of hair had been wrenched out by her violent struggles , the fragile material of her shift had torn further , and she was shaking uncontrollably and unable to stand upright . |
| 5 | And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun . |
| 6 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 7 | Sadly , the momentum gathered in the early days of my crusade had fizzled out by April , when it became obvious we were heading for Division One . |
| 8 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 9 | Any state whose parliament " does not feel able to approve the irrevocable fixing of its currency " could opt out by seeking " exemption " from this stage of economic union ; member states would nevertheless be asked to make a solemn ( non-binding ) declaration proclaiming their support for a " swift transition " to EMU and " their strongest intention to participate in EMU without exemption " . |
| 10 | It certainly stands out by comparison with Psychology in and People . |
| 11 | OSLEAR was voted out by his fellow umpires |
| 12 | He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) . |
| 13 | Veins can be identified by their faintly blue colour and they may be made to stand out by restricting the flow of blood back to the heart . |
| 14 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 15 | The aggregate supply curve traced out by these short-run deviations from the equilibrium real wage is and has a positive slope . |
| 16 | The Members of the smaller parties complain that they are squeezed out by the front-benches whatever happens . |
| 17 | The old rebellion was squeezed out by the pressure of survival , and the ‘ young ones ’ conformed to create a new world , not out of spiritual charity , but out of silicon chips . |
| 18 | They say reading and writing tuition is being squeezed out by other subjects . |
| 19 | In sum , the small firms are squeezed out by losing the advantages of labour intensive production as output becomes concentrated in larger companies . |
| 20 | Waldron Buffaloes had played a marathon the night before , finally got squeezed out by the L.A. boys . |
| 21 | 4 ) The last of the whey is squeezed out by pressing the curd against one end of the vat ( left ) . |
| 22 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , despite his welcome answer , deep concern is still felt by Leicestershire community colleges — which have a proud and long-standing record of providing adult education — that they will be squeezed out by the new proposals ? |
| 23 | But there are few advocates for patients with anorexia nervosa and they carry the risk of being squeezed out by the increasingly technological emphasis of general medicine and the concentration of psychiatric services on the needs of chronic psychotic patients . |
| 24 | But by the 1930s the Gloucestershire Old Spot was being squeezed out by faster growing modern hybrids . |
| 25 | Three 's a crowd : Alison Ramsay ( Western Klick Photopoint ) is squeezed out by two Hyndland players at Peffermill yesterday |
| 26 | No one starts out by trying to do a bad job but if neglected and not respected potential will be stifled and performance falter . |
| 27 | Often elements of the story would be edited out by the interval . |
| 28 | Interview — whether questions resulting in response ‘ nothing to say ’ should be edited out by trial judge — materiality of questions — direction on right to silence |
| 29 | On appeal the primary submission was that the questions which were responded to as above should be edited out by the judge . |
| 30 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |