Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] out by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 2 | This check is carried out by the Audit Commission , usually on an annual basis . |
| 3 | When prototypes have satisfied the OR Staff , production is carried out by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence , using commercial contracts of a number of different types such as ‘ fixed price ’ , ‘ single tender ’ , and the much criticised ‘ cost-plus ’ , which is used when the technical risks are too high , the contractors able to tender too few , or the time too short for normal competitive tendering . |
| 4 | However , the conversion from a numeric user-address to a device address in terms of cylinders and records is carried out by the manufacturer 's software , and thus involves an overhead of both primary storage space and CPU time . |
| 5 | At the distant end , the conversion from electrical signals to sound is carried out by the earpiece and the listener receives the information . |
| 6 | That determination process is carried out by the Home Office and the adjudication tribunal . |
| 7 | ( Photosynthesis is carried out by the stem ) , e.g. heather , cacti |
| 8 | The first of these has meant that systematic surveillance is carried out by the branch over organizations that regularly organize demonstrations and marches or are involved in industrial disputes . |
| 9 | Is carried out by the professional . |
| 10 | Intervention — the management of the Treasury 's Exchange Equalisation Account ( EEA ) is carried out by the Bank of England . |
| 11 | Brachiopod feeding is carried out by the lophophore ( p. 61 ) , a ciliated band usually carried on a loop , which also creates the currents used in feeding . |
| 12 | Unlike the statutory listing of buildings , which is carried out by the Department of the Environment , it is local authorities that have the power to designate conservation areas . |
| 13 | It is possible that Minton chose this subject , in which the relevance of the Crucifixion is cancelled out by the attention given to a game of chance , as an expression of his own despair at the malignancy of fate . |
| 14 | Making mylar sheets is a little more effort , but this is cancelled out by the fact that you usually need to mark much less . |
| 15 | In an early episode of Hill Street Blues the ‘ joke ’ of a ‘ nut ’ who thinks he is Dracula , complete with cape and thirst for blood , is caught out by the discovery that he has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 16 | Moreover , the word ‘ notion ’ is not meant to suggest that he is talking of an idea in our minds ; he is concerned rather with that actual feature of good things which is picked out by the word ‘ good ’ . |
| 17 | This view of the meaning of Exodus 6:2–3 is borne out by the evidence of Genesis . |
| 18 | However that may be , the prediction that non-ascriptive adjectives will be ungrammatical here is borne out by the evidence of associatives and others ( this is the more revealing , since it might sometimes be possible to understand the meaning which would be intended by the construction where they could be supposed to occur ) : ( 62 ) Fanshawe reported O'Neill 's collar clerical Jones could not imagine his wife former |
| 19 | FMEs prepared to advise defence lawyers seem to be in growing demand , and that is borne out by the experience within our group , whose members go out of their way to stress that we work as independent consultants . |
| 20 | The fact that the consultative process described serves to enhance , rather than hinder , the task of school management is borne out by the school 's successful introduction over the last few years of development planning . |
| 21 | The argument that these spontaneous housing settlements are a superior form of accommodation to the city slums is borne out by the consolidation that takes place in low-income settlements . |
| 22 | This is borne out by the court 's judgment in Lopes da Veiga v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 9/88 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 2989 , from which it appears that in order for a national of a member state who is permanently employed on board a ship flying the flag of another member state to have the status of a worker/national of a member state who is employed in the territory of another member state , the relationship of employment must exhibit a sufficiently close link with that territory . |
| 23 | The income tax treatment is borne out by the decision in Brown v Bullock , 40 TC 1 , concerning a bank 's subscription to a London club on behalf of its West End manager . |
| 24 | This observation is borne out by the Commission s statistical Parish Survey in which it appears that only 43% of Anglican churches have one or more Evensongs with a choir each month ( see Appendix 2.5 ) . |
| 25 | The distinction is borne out by the Report 's own reference to the disclosure of information , and prior consultation on redundancy . |
| 26 | Now that one blow is borne out by the examination I made of Aldhelm 's head . |
| 27 | This explanation is borne out by the remark of one middle-class housewife : ‘ I do n't go about feeling discontented ’ , the implication being that she thinks she might be expected to do so . |
| 28 | CAC sees itself as part of the community of East Manchester and this is borne out by the fact that the company is now employing the third generation of workers from local families . |
| 29 | That this is so is borne out by the fact that seaside towns with golf links handy have gone ahead by leaps and bounds . ’ |
| 30 | Robert Burns called John Tennant , ‘ a worthy , intelligent farmer , my father 's friend and my own ’ and his regard is borne out by the fact that when he was offered tenancy of Ellisland Farm , Dumfries , it was to John Tennant he turned for advice ; they travelled together to the farm and after an inspection , the older man recommended it to his young friend . |