Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 2 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 3 | Hartmann ( 1979 ) argues that male workers are able to keep women out of the better jobs because of their organization , and that as a consequence women are obliged to marry on unfavourable terms , such that they have to do most of the housework . |
| 4 | The young female beast of burden could added the indispensable portable door-lock , guaranteed to keep undesirables out of the flimsiest room , which was advertised in Cook 's Excursionist . |
| 5 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 6 | This is a pity as its delicate , lacy leaves have an unusual flavour , which helps to lift recipes out of the everyday routine . |
| 7 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 8 | The magistrates at Speenhamland in Berkshire decided to supplement wages out of the poor rates , and this system of outdoor relief soon became general ; years of demoralization and artificially low wages ensued , but there was no mass starvation and a revolutionary situation was avoided . |