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 | Dai Qing 's name was singled out as one of the ‘ tiny handful of people ’ who had ‘ colluded with foreign forces , ganged up among themselves at home and made ideological , public opinion and organisational preparations for years to stir up turmoil in China , overthrow the leadership of the Communist Party and subvert the socialist people 's republic . ’ |
| 10 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 11 | Faldo savages the press for his treatment at Muirfield , where he set out as one of the hottest favourites in Open history . |
| 12 | His good looks and twinkling eyes may have won him female fans , but his 6ft 2½in frame and his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers also firmly marked him out as one of the boys . |
| 13 | Katheryn Murphy ( Kelly McGillis ) , who is assigned to the case , is clearly marked out as one of the boys to begin with : her brusque manner , her determination always to win ( which leads to her plea-bargaining behind Sarah 's back to ensure a conviction of the rapists , but on a lesser charge ) and her interaction with the men from her office — discussing the case with them at the male territory of a sports match |
| 14 | And as depressed parents can have a deleterious effect on their children 's behaviour and vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance ( Rutter , 1966 ) , the number of people who can be affected in some way by the disorder is substantial and marks it out as one of the most important psychiatric conditions . |
| 15 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
| 16 | Given the nomenclature of his position , he will prima facie be held out as one of the members of the firm . |
| 17 | So , if it comes out as one , one squared is one so you 've accounted for a hundred percent or all of the variants in the other variable which means that if you know X you automatically know Y , or if you know Y you automatically know X. When you 're doing a correlation study , it 's very hard to work out what 's the dependent and what 's the independent variable because by it 's nature you do n't know . |
| 18 | At Cosmeston a well manured area of land adjoining the farmstead has been interpreted as a garden and has been planted out as such . |
| 19 | In short , patchiness , in space and time , is as much a feature of the oceans as it is of land ; indeed , ‘ patchiness ’ is a great principle in ecology — though it is rarely singled out as such . |
| 20 | Foreign lawyers will still be able to practise as such on their own within the UK without registering but solicitors employed by them will not be able to hold themselves out as such to clients of the business . |
| 21 | Not that Arsenal should be singled out as sole instigators of the ill-feeling at White Hart Lane . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And you could write it out as seventy eighty over a hundred and twenty . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That 's X squared but when it 's differentiated cos you 've got ta go back into the bracket it comes out as that . |
| 30 | 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 . |