Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty-three were taken out of the reckoning , including 10 trained by Henry Cecil . |
| 2 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 3 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |
| 4 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ This was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court in 1990 , when it said Irish unity is a constitutional imperative . |
| 6 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 7 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 8 | This was borne out by the tests on ‘ bootiful ’ Norfolk turkeys which needed an hour at half microwave power to cook right through without drying the breast meat . |
| 9 | This was bought out by the private cleaning firm BET , which then had to compete with other firms for the contracts to clean schools . |
| 10 | This was carried out to the design of William Butterfield and completed in 1848 . |
| 11 | For years this was carried out by the " vanners " ; men effecting a separation on special vanning shovels using a method perhaps best described as somewhat akin to panning for gold . |
| 12 | This was carried out in the form of a maze of plants surrounding Her Majesty 's Coat of Arms . |
| 13 | The prospect of Prime Minister John Major calling an early general election ( due by mid-1992 ) in June 1991 was ruled out by the poor performance of the ruling Conservative Party in parliamentary by-elections in two Welsh constituencies on April 4 and May 16 , and in local elections in England and Wales on May 2 . |
| 14 | Here at Halling from 1820–30 , £80 5 7 was paid out to the poor at an average of 2/ per week . |
| 15 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 16 | These were set out in the code of practice issued under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 17 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 18 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 19 | About $17 billion was siphoned out of the country into foreign bank accounts in 1992 , he estimates . |
| 20 | Tartan carpet using the Cumbernauld Tartan was laid out in the Country Club and its connecting passages . |
| 21 | Level 1 was left out from the calculation of the ANOVA in Table 6 since the question ‘ was there a word present ? ’ can not have a non-zero entry for the cell corresponding to a No answer . |
| 22 | Ziff-Davis Publishing Co is closing PC Sources and is turning Corporate Computing into a newsletter ; the first was beaten out of the market by another Ziff publication , and the latter was squeezed as Ziff 's personal computer magazines increasingly encroached on its turf . |
| 23 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 24 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |
| 25 | Early in 1907 the SMET enquired whether any more were available , and received the reply that only two were left out of the batch of 10 , the others having been disposed of to Swansea ( 4 ) , and Jarrow ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
| 27 | The position was even worse in 1981–82 , when £4 million was spent out of the £ 10 million allocated . |
| 28 | In 1981–82 , £ 14.6 million was spent out of the £ 19.1 million allocated . |
| 29 | A total of £3,500 million was taken out of the public-sector borrowing requirement . |
| 30 | That was borne out by the census that was taken in April , in rather warmer weather . |