Example sentences of "[verb] out [conj] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's gathered together knowledgable bodies like the trust into the Ruddy duck Working Group to find out if the two species can be kept apart . |
| 2 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 3 | Rather than simply criticizing quantitative analysis as a whole , she adapts slightly the standard method of measuring linguistic variables , pointing out that the three variants of ( r ) which can be distinguished ( [ ? ] , [ ? ] and [ ? ] are difficult to place on any rationally motivated social continuum . |
| 4 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 5 | Similar words not derived in this way do not have the syllabic — it has been pointed out that the two words ‘ coddling ’ ( derived from the verb ‘ coddle ’ ) and ‘ codling ’ ( meaning ‘ small cod ’ , derived by adding the diminutive suffix ‘ -ling ’ to ‘ cod ’ ) show a contrast between syllabic and non-syllabic : ‘ coddling ’ and ‘ codling ’ . |
| 6 | It has already been pointed out that the 1975 glitch left a persistent increase of 0.05% in slowdown rate ; the available data between 1975 and 1989 show no indication of a decay in this increase . |
| 7 | In those early days Bain worked out that the 23 houses most under threat could have been rescued and restored for £240,000 . |
| 8 | I must point out that the 11 tries against Ireland is not the record number of tries conceded by an IB country . |
| 9 | The profits compare with £25.4 million for 1991 , but analysts pointed out that the 1991 figure included a £4.9 million exceptional transfer resulting from a change in the bonus scales on the company 's industrial branch business . |
| 10 | The IIF cautiously welcomed the debt-reduction agreements struck with Mexico and the Philippines [ see p. 37243 ; p. 37580 for their respective finalization ] , but it pointed out that the two countries had continued to service their obligations during negotiation of the deals , in contrast with other middle-income debtor nations seeking relief under the plan . |
| 11 | And he also pointed out that the three detectives were going to claim in their defence that the Birmingham Six were guilty all along . |