Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |
| 2 | Despite various friends trying out the route and checking the text , the book is not up to date . |
| 3 | With each post should come a set of educational objectives setting out the knowledge and skills that the doctor should have acquired by the end of the post . |
| 4 | This is a simple , virtually diatonic chord sequence in A major ( with the exception of the G natural in the Dsus4 chord ) and Verdine sticks very much to the A major scale ( A Ionian mode ) — A , B , C£ , D , E , F£ , G£ — with a couple of passing notes to fill out the phrases in bars 4 , 12 , 24 , and 27 . |
| 5 | Legislation created a host of unemployed bureaucrats , municipal and seigniorial officials , who exhibited what liberals called ‘ passive ’ opposition to the constitution — the refusal of local authorities to carry out the administrative changes and apply the laws of the Cortes . |
| 6 | The dialogue-based text is ideal for reading aloud in class or for encouraging pupils to act out the stories . |
| 7 | The manager may take on that role but the new volunteers may find that they lack support as the manager is likely to be too busy with other duties to carry out the in-bureau training task thoroughly . |
| 8 | Guardian writer John , 60 , had flown to Austria with other newsmen to test out the gleaming XJ220 on a racing circuit near Salzburg . |
| 9 | The hydrofoil entered the harbour , revealing the characteristic wooden docks , with brightly-painted buildings sticking out the fjord on spidery sticks . |
| 10 | While few Whitehall officials disputed the need for nuclear weapons to damp out the possibility of a recurrence of the conventional-weapon slaughter of the two World Wars , Sandys had breached a fundamental principle of British military policy — the maintenance of balanced military forces able to react to the unforeseen . |
| 11 | To count the nuclei of TE and ICM in late blastocysts carry out the following procedure . |
| 12 | Basal or resting metabolic rate ( BMR ) is the speed your body burns calories at rest — in other words carrying out the job of staying alive : blood circulation , cell growth , digestion , thinking and so on . |
| 13 | I caught myself shouting at people or giving them lectures about elementary things like the importance of oiling their bikes ( I later discovered that oiling bikes in dusty regions wears out the moving parts rather than preserving them ) . |
| 14 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 15 | The Green manifesto calls for drastic measures to eke out the earth 's dwindling resources and reduce pollution . |
| 16 | In each class at least four methods were used by different pupils to work out the answer to this item . |
| 17 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |