Example sentences of "[verb] out [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 2 | There were two main recommendations — a flood warning scheme should be established , but as important , an in-depth study should be carried out to create a hydraulic model for Perth and look for flood alleviation measures . |
| 3 | A whole cupboard may be turned out to find a forgotten toy and then the clearing up , sorting and re-packing becomes an activity in itself . |
| 4 | When stimulated by contact the dart shoots out to impale a passing animalcule as prey . |
| 5 | Soon he would be going out to start a new life . |
| 6 | A 13-year-old white kid living in Kensal Green going out to buy a Blind Lemon Jefferson album , I ask you ! |
| 7 | THOUSANDS of people turned out to watch a spectacular firework display at Liverpool 's Kings Dock last night . |
| 8 | Whether in slices or in the intact brain , LTP turned out to have a similar range of properties . |
| 9 | I turned out to have a modest talent for neuropsychiatry . |
| 10 | One mental condition after another turned out to have a physical basis and , sometimes , to be alleviated when the physical defect was corrected . |
| 11 | If the flow rate should increase for any reason , the lava may burst out over the levees , flooding out to form a new branch of the main flow , and this ‘ break out ’ will itself rapidly become established between levees . |
| 12 | Before rushing out to buy a new bathroom suite , you need to think carefully about how the room is used . |
| 13 | The wallet-sized Portfolio weighs just over a pound , yet opens out to reveal a qwerty keyboard and an eight line by 40 column display . |
| 14 | In other words , the choreographer should set out to create a particular style for the whole dance design , yet within it be free to vary the way of performing a step without breaking away from or distorting the overall rhythmic quality and phrasing of his enchaînements . |
| 15 | In what is regarded as a make-or-break move for his political career , Mr Lamont will set out to demonstrate a clear route out of recession while underlining the Government 's clamp on public spending . |
| 16 | But I do n't set out to impose a cathartic experience on my readers . |
| 17 | MERSEYSIDE Olympic hero Chris Boardman today set out to spearhead a new drive for better health in the region . |
| 18 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 19 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 20 | The expansion of settlement soon became based on a hollow frontier as settlement moved west leaving a trail of erosion and siltation behind until by 1939 , Charles Kellogg felt that 75 million acres ( 28 million hectares ) of this [ ( 450–500 million acres/180–200 million hectares of eroded land ) ] were too worn out to return a living wage under any system of farm practices . |
| 21 | And now for a cup of tea , she thought , stepping out to wind a large bath towel around her nakedness . |
| 22 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 23 | The idea was that a 486 user would rush out to buy a new processor for her or his machine as they became available and this facility would mean the death of the 386 . |
| 24 | Driver Mr Alex McClymont got out to report a faulty signal by telephone . |
| 25 | He told the packed church : ‘ The gunman went out to kill a British soldier and he missed . |
| 26 | At first glance , you may wonder how the history of a single event could possibly be spun out to fill a 255-page epic , but this is far from a specialist lap-by-lap potted report of each race . |
| 27 | When we go out to visit a new client — we look at the needs of the sufferer and the carer . |
| 28 | For the most part I go out to have a good time , and hopefully communicate that to the audience |
| 29 | I think people go out to make a fast buck without worrying about the consequences . |
| 30 | Evidence for political affairs comes in a variety of genres : some apparently unlikely sources — theological treatises , for instance , or accounts of the translations ( that is , the carryings to new locations ) of saints ' relics , and collections of miracle-stories — turn out to hold a good deal of information about ( and reactions to ) war and politics . |