Example sentences of "[vb infin] out [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 2 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 3 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 4 | As history showed , despite the engineering skill deployed and the excellence of the final product , the sums did n't work out and the whole company fell . |
| 5 | But is there a limit to the amount of sex appeal you can dish out before the whole thing gets out of hand ? |
| 6 | And , and thereafter cash can flow out because the first thing that flows out are loans and guarantees . |
| 7 | At least it was in a courtroom , where in Perry Mason or LA Law the witnesses cracked and the truth came out ; at least it might sort out whether the central figure was hero or villain , and point to how far up the culpability went . |
| 8 | Before they all consult their lawyers , I should point out that the above conversation is a slight exaggeration . |
| 9 | Will he also point out that the only threat to the progress being made in the duchy comes from those who propose the introduction of a national minimum wage , and the abolition of competitive tendering and charging in the NHS ? |
| 10 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 11 | In their communiqué , the finance ministers could usefully point out that the current despair over eastern Germany is overdone . |
| 12 | I must point out that the 11 tries against Ireland is not the record number of tries conceded by an IB country . |
| 13 | As a detail of notation , if it seems useful to have a way to distinguish property-meanings from entity-meanings , then we may use round brackets for the former , thus allowing us to replace ( 7 ) by : We may also point out that the physical orientation of the arrowhead in our representations naturally reflects the direction of qualification , not the surface order of the instantiating elements . |
| 14 | And incidentally may I point out that the proper term for the external female genitalia is vulva . |
| 15 | It may turn out that the distinctive features of a causal story associated with semantic content are precisely those that require the language of belief , desire and intention , in order for their isolation to have any point within the overall causal explanation of what happens when the speaker communicates with another . |
| 16 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 17 | Erm it 's a hundred years of parish government really , and er I would have thought probably we 'll find out that the National Association of Local Councils will probably be organizing something we can erm erm you know , adhere to . |
| 18 | I 'll just go and find out when the due date for this essay is , and then Cos if it is the end of week three then I 'll I 'll say o I 'll say it can be in in week four sometime . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to send Marler to Finland to nose around and see if he can find out where the missing men have vanished to . |