Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( e ) Limited contracting-out It may still be possible to contract out of the implied obligations owed under supply contracts . |
| 2 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 3 | Any clinical examination required will be similar to that carried out by the ordinary GP . |
| 4 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
| 5 | In the UK the most familiar redistributive budget study is that carried out by the Central Statistical Office and published as Economic Trends . |
| 6 | Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual . |
| 7 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 8 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 9 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 10 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 11 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 12 | This works out in the holy redemption and holy wrath of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
| 13 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 14 | That came out of the Current Issues in Agricultural Economics book . |
| 15 | Cos that came out of the old one |
| 16 | Current trainer John Hyland is keen on the dog taking his chance in the St Leger after Shy bowed out of the Irish |
| 17 | It struck Nutty that he had no time to take cars for joy-rides any longer , content to flake out in the thick straw in a corner of Firelight 's box after evenings of running and riding and swimming . |
| 18 | From Middenheim 's many tall towers it is possible to look out over the Great Forest to the south and the Drakwald to the west , a carpet of treetops stretching in every direction save eastwards , where the rising Middle Mountains burst from the forest floor , tall and jagged , and the colour of thunder clouds . |
| 19 | Already there was a small queue of young people at the café door , for this was Saturday night and the boys had put on their one-hundred-and-thirty-rouble English wool suits and the girls had fifty-rouble pointed shoes wrapped in a parcel , for they were far too valuable to wear out on the icy streets . |
| 20 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 21 | On a number of occasions , I have been glad to set out for the hon. Member in response to his questions in the House detailed information about the contents of the computer records and how many are held on the system at any one time . |
| 22 | So far , the discussion of this turning-point and the debate over the direction of change has been conducted mainly in terms of what kind of manufacturing sector is likely to emerge out of the economic downturn . |
| 23 | Allen picked up the sack and slung it over his shoulder and they all three went out into the open air . |
| 24 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 25 | Rowdy customers will be hard to throw out through the double pressure doors of the air-lock , but at closing time Daedalus will reverse the pumps and take the pressure up above atmospheric . |
| 26 | Does he agree with the chairman of that industry , Sir Patrick Sheehy , that to opt out of the single currency would be a foolish measure ? |
| 27 | There is , however , a further problem here : even if the required ‘ nationalisation ’ of possession were accomplished , it would not be possible to opt out of the international division of labour with other capitalist economies . |
| 28 | After dinner , they were all marched out to the back garden , which was similar to the front , where they could walk about or play catch ball , but were not allowed to stand and talk to each other . |
| 29 | 5 Pick out from the following those things which are horizontal and those which are vertical : |
| 30 | At six , after their beds had been made and inspected , they all trudged out into the dark cold air and on to the parade ground , its surface covered in a thin film of snow . |