Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deportations were carried out despite a formal request from the UNHCR that Britain be more flexible in the application of its asylum rules in the interest of ‘ international burden sharing ’ . |
| 2 | These producers were carried out in a darkened room . |
| 3 | According to this view the democratic political revolutions were carried out by a new class — the bourgeoisie — which was formed in the process of development of commercial and industrial capitalism ; and the future of democracy would be vitally affected by the inherent tendencies of capitalist production and the relation between the bourgeoisie and the other new class in capitalist society — the proletariat . |
| 4 | The nationalization of the railways , the creation of the state holding company INI , the acquisition of a major state shareholding in the telephone company , were carried out by a repressive authoritarian regime which had crushed organized labour . |
| 5 | Two thousand pest callers were caught out by a new tracing scheme launched with the help of police in West Yorkshire last month . |
| 6 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 7 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 8 | Since the goddess herself was not permitted to die , the annual death and rebirth were acted out by a young male Year-spirit , a small and inferior deity who took the roles of son and consort , and represented the important principle of discontinuity in nature . |
| 9 | His passengers were filing out in a dazed little procession . |
| 10 | Plates were handed out at a commemorative dinner by Health Authority Chairman Maurice Proctor . |
| 11 | Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull — but 9,999 vanished . |
| 12 | Their suspicions were borne out by a careful analysis of six different tumours ; in each case the viral promotor turned out , as expected , to have inserted itself next to the proto-oncogene myc . |
| 13 | Recent industrial unrest had included selective strikes in key public services , among them banks , where union members were locked out during a three-week strike which began on Jan. 29 . |
| 14 | In the population served by Oxford Regional Health Authority during the year to September 1990 , 978 boys were circumcised out of a total estimated population of 299 600 — a rate of 0.33% a year ( statistics unit of Oxford Regional Health Authority ) . |
| 15 | For the second time in as many weeks , Alton firemen were called out to a night-time factory blaze to deal with a fire at Vessa Ltd in Paper Mill Lane . |
| 16 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 17 | The bodies of many of the 167 who died — 37 of them Britons — were laid out in a makeshift mortuary at an army barracks near Katmandu . |
| 18 | By statistical analysis of his surveys he showed that the megaliths were set out to a common unit of measurement , the megalithic yard of 0.83 m. , not in simple circles but in circular arcs centred on right-angled triangles . |
| 19 | His religious opinions were set out in A Short History of the Evangelical Movement ( 1915 ) , and his personal interpretation of Whig philosophy in Politics and Personalities ( 1917 ) . |
| 20 | The aims of the national curriculum and its related assessment procedures were set out in a consultative paper published in July 1987 in which it was anticipated that standards of educational provision and attainment would be raised by : |
| 21 | Several members of the left wing Revolutionary Movement , MIR , were hiding out in a residential safe-house . |
| 22 | So while he and Stapleton were led out for a little exercise , the Blue Cross carpenter , Alan Key got to work . |
| 23 | When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage . |
| 24 | He looked as if he was lit from below , and his nose and cheeks were spread out in a white , lifeless slab against the window pane . |
| 25 | The patients , still dead , were delivered out on a stretcher-like apparatus . |
| 26 | But towards the end of our stay in Kuwait , the rules were relaxed , and we were allowed out to a nearby sports stadium to exercise for an hour every day . |
| 27 | The Matanzimas were forced out after a military coup nearly two years ago . |
| 28 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 29 | Ho and Pottz were sent out for a sudden-death surf-off . |
| 30 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |