Example sentences of "out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostafa Tolba bowed out as executive director of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , and was replaced , effective Jan. 1 , 1993 , by Elizabeth Dowdeswell ( Canada ) . |
| 2 | Other tongues suggested that Valentin was Elena 's illegitimate child by another man , but the chronology of his gestation and birth seems to rule that out as malicious gossip . |
| 3 | Apart from the problems of washing in this hard water ( soap will not lather ) , when the water is heated , the dissolved chemicals are ‘ precipitated ’ out as insoluble carbonates ; the higher the temperature , the more the salts that are precipitated . |
| 4 | In an inquisitorial process of this kind lawyers do not stand out as good investigators ; they appear to be obsessed with the necessity to attribute blame . |
| 5 | Where it is ( as in Ferejohn , 1974 ; see also Johnston , 1980 ) , the southern States usually come out as major beneficiaries — because their Senators and Representatives tend to be among the longest-lived politically ; the Midwest States , on the other hand , tend to benefit much less , which is a source of much local concern ( Murphy , 1971 ) . |
| 6 | some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 7 | Some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 8 | She 's the latest of a series of elderly people singled out as easy targets for robbery . |
| 9 | Not that Arsenal should be singled out as sole instigators of the ill-feeling at White Hart Lane . |
| 10 | Fool 's Gold director Terry Winsor says : ‘ The truth is extremely elusive but my understanding is that unlike the Great Train Robbers , the boys who did go inside wo n't come out as poor men . ’ |
| 11 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 12 | The designers of the material had provided explicit suggestions for the time to be spent on each activity within a unit and had indicated whether activities should be carried out as individual work or group discussion . |
| 13 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |
| 14 | A steady stream of sightseers made their way along the river to see the villa where they were shown round by the WEA class decked out as praetorian guards and vestal virgins . |
| 15 | Unlike many black kids who consider themselves singled out as possible sportsmen because of stereotyping , he found only his PE teacher took an interest in his sport . |
| 16 | Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone . |
| 17 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 18 | We welcome and encourage people who want to have a look at us — not only to understand ‘ what we 're about , ’ but , perhaps , to check us out as prospective employers . |
| 19 | But neither Johnson nor former Gosforth and West Hartlepool lock Kevin Westgarth could have been singled out as outstanding performers . |
| 20 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 21 | This usually occurred indirectly , but none the less effectively introducing this information which Parliament had tried to rule out as admissible evidence . |
| 22 | In addition to the flabby growth and increased susceptibility to pests and disease that follows , the visible indications show out as brown patches which spread and coalesce round the leaf edges . |
| 23 | Now Asian residents , many of whom run businesses , fear they will be in the front line of any flare-up and even be picked out as special targets . |
| 24 | Universities , banks and the like are being singled out as potential customers , and Harari 's best guess is that ACTec should have a product within 14 to 18 months . |
| 25 | Amongst those who did give , education , health and general welfare came out as top recipients , but the top 200 corporate donors altogether only gave 150 million for all purposes — a trivial sum in comparison with any social spending total : 25 billion , say , on the NHS or education ( see Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 26 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 27 | What is it about the changes that occur in a crossroads period that mark them out as structural changes , distinct from the movement and change experienced during the intervening years ? |
| 28 | Far more than before , however , and far more substantially because of the growth of TV and other new media , they stand out as dominant features . |
| 29 | Van Mook was recalled home and the outgoing Catholic premier , Beel , was sent out as High Commissioner . |
| 30 | In Brazil the forests are being indiscriminately destroyed and many indigenous peoples , like the Yanomami Indians , are being slowly wiped out as gold prospectors and others invade their lands , poison their rivers , and bring disease and death in their wake . |