Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] out [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper .
2 Bruce Critchley and David Sheehan gave the amateurs some hope when they ran out as comfortable 5 & 3 winners over Ken Bousfield and Geoff Hunt , while Warren Humphreys and Michael Lunt fought out a halved match with Peter Butler and Peter Mills but elsewhere there were wins for Alliss and Hunt ( 4 & 3 ) , Dawson and Platts ( 4 & 3 ) , Clark and Guy Hunt ( 1 hole ) and Wood and Garner ( 3 & 2 ) .
3 Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition .
4 Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team .
5 It points out that legislation designed to protect under-16s is not being monitored or enforced and argues that the draft directive presents an opportunity to carry out an urgent review of provision .
6 The driver sought out the agreed parking space which was as far away as possible from the canteen and shop complex .
7 In 1984 the Anglian Water Authority applied for permission to carry out a land-drainage scheme on the Stour between Stratford St Mary and Flatford Mill , with the purpose of converting the riverside pasture to oil-seed rape .
8 The inability to carry out an agreed suggestion may indicate that neither the follower nor the leader had really understood the problem when the objective was set .
9 Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible .
10 It also feared that a coalition with the anti-fascist forces might create similar problems to those which the Labour government of 1929–3 I faced when relying upon Liberal support to carry out a legislative programme .
11 If I signed a contract to carry out a complete refurbishment of the interior of your house I have an obligation to fulfil that contract .
12 In tide free waters like the Mediterranean we do n't have the same problem but we still need to consult a chart to find out a suitable location for sailing .
13 From it , Kirov drew out a slim sheaf of black and white photographs of the young pilot , and a single sheet of personal notes which he had compiled from their conversations .
14 On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half .
15 GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche .
16 It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story .
17 The hot rocks technique holds out the best hope for exploitation of geothermal energy .
18 The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day .
19 Therefore , it was possible for subjects to carry out a certain amount of integration of information even when they did not know the theme of the passage .
20 In a highly controversial episode , a large party of Iraqis , bolting homewards out of Kuwait in assorted vehicles , was blocked by Allied armour at a point called Mutla ‘ Ridge , where Allied aircraft wiped out the entire group .
21 Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ?
22 Illuminative evaluation An attempt to carry out an illuminative evaluation of the undergraduate information retrieval course was also made .
23 A manager can order an employee to carry out a specific task .
24 Instonians have former international and vice-captain Keith Crossan back in the side after a successful visit to Donegal 's Sheephaven Bay where the local junior club laid out the red carpet in spectacular fashion for an international select side .
25 IPSWICH Town 's great rivals Norwich and Saturday 's FA Cup quarter-finals opponents Arsenal fought out a 1–1 draw at Carrow Road last night .
26 He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place .
27 However , at a session of the Komsomol 's 21st congress on April 16 CPSU central committee ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev read out a central committee resolution which called for the expulsion from the CPSU of Democratic Platform leaders , albeit not those rank-and-file communists whom they had " led astray " .
28 The Association of British Insurers points out an increasing trend among major insurers to offer selective cover for people who already have some elements of cover under existing household and life policies , or free with their credit and charge cards ( NatWest 's Gold card offers the only truly standalone , comprehensive travel cover ) .
29 Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper .
30 Against this background , the Threshold Foundation provided Stephen Fulder and me with funds to carry out an 18-month survey to gather information on scientific , social , education and legal aspects of complementary medicine .
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