Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials .
2 The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time .
3 If it lived up to its name , she thought , it should stick out like a sore thumb among the warm , yellowish stone of the other buildings .
4 The second type of mutation is at Phe65 , the side chain that must rotate out of a hydrophobic pocket in the apoprotein to allow SAM to bind .
5 You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology .
6 He told the Governor that ‘ Rance must come out with a new policy , with proposals that go beyond the White paper [ of May 1945 ] .
7 If you are already physically active , then you should start out with a brisk , vigorous walk for 20 minutes , stretching yourself as you walk .
8 If a mass of hot and a mass of cold gas were brought together , then it was very highly improbable that they would not mix and give a uniformly warm mixture ; but there was a small probability , and Maxwell imagined a demon who might assist the process , that the warm gas might separate out into a hot and a cold portion , in defiance of the Second Law .
9 As a very rough indicator , instalments totalling over one-tenth of income might stand out as a heavy current credit commitment .
10 We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks .
11 He 'd speak out for a poor helpless old man like Donny , just as he did for Ireland . ’
12 From this room she could see out through a wide window into a dense stand of woodland , which seemed to crowd together , not quite hiding a track leading to a small cave .
13 You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 .
14 Heston 's the only man who could drop out of a cubic moon — he 's so square [ very hip talk for 1964 ! ] .
15 They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning .
16 They looked as if they 'd come out of a medieval illustration .
17 Yes y I think you 'd be more disappointed if you , if you 'd taken the tap this time and you 'd come out with a commended .
18 Len was unquestionably one of the best defenders in the 3rd Division South in the mid-1950s , but in addition he was a talented fellow who could turn out in a surprising number of positions ( he actually played in seven different ones for us , and that in a day when ‘ utility ’ players were unusual ) and his Palace career spanned ten seasons .
19 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
20 Well it may , it may stand out like a sore thumb , yeah .
21 Let's go out for a nice meal somewhere .
22 In our discussion of the constitution we shall break out into a critical , historical , and political approach .
23 ‘ He can only drive a specially-adapted car and that would stand out like a sore thumb if he was moving about doing something related to terrorism ’ , Mrs Drumgoole said .
24 Then I 'd go down the town buy us all clothes then , you and I would go out for a private dinner Jean .
25 When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole .
26 ‘ It is , of course , no accident , ’ he said out loud , testing to see if the words would come out on a printed page in a bound volume , ‘ that redundant theological speculation about the death of God should run parallel with an equally tedious literary preoccupation with the death of the novel . ’
27 From time to time , Patrick would come out with a forthright remark about something we were n't actually discussing .
28 They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens .
29 As a result of the consultancy report , it was decided that seven of RBIS 's ten local offices would be closed — with no compulsory redundancies — and that RBIS would operate out of a head office in Manchester while RBIC would operate from three regional offices in Glasgow , London and Manchester , with its head office located in Glasgow .
30 ‘ I would roll over on my ankle and it would pop out for a few seconds and click back in again ’ .
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