Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 They all laughed , not one of them willing to step out into the coldest night of the winter .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 :
12 Obviously the snake arrangements required intervention by domestic monetary authorities when currencies looked likely to break out of the per cent band .
13 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 .
14 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 ?
15 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 .
16 Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer !
17 Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life ,
18 After completing three quarters of a loop the model is reluctant to pull out of the ensuing dive .
19 Like Mrs Thatcher , he is able to reach out beyond the middle-class , private-sector bastions of Tory support to wider social echelons , and to ground the Tory philosophy deep in the changing social contours of the ‘ new Britain ’ .
20 Publishers must be able to reach out to the widest possible audience .
21 Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room .
22 Lydia in the leading car was loth to hoot for fear of maddening the dogs and loth to get out for the same reason .
23 The ride itself was very open and exposed and after being so long in the close embrace of the trees Marian found it difficult to step out into the clear daylight .
24 Just exerting her last to escape out of the overwhelming
25 Cy emerged carrying a saddle , ready to weigh out for the next race .
26 The Daughter looked as if she were ready to give out with the old Technicolor Yawn .
27 So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant .
28 And some spare copies of the photographs that came out from the DTI this afternoon — we ran off dozens to send out to the regional forces , but I snaffled six . ’
29 After your second or third mortgage , you may feel ready to branch out from the standard endowment or repayment mortgage .
30 We easily recognise the aggressive action of a horse that snakes its head towards a newcomer , puts its ears back , pulls up its nostrils , and raises one leg ready to lash out at the other horse .
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