Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 2 | The back door of the kitchen led out onto a slate-paved path at the foot of three steep terraces giving much lebensraum to many varieties of voracious weeds and scrubby elder bushes . |
| 3 | He wanted his personal belief and his professional expertness to come out as a single attribute . |
| 4 | The action arose out of a Privy Council hearing of his appeal against his dismissal from the Singapore bar following his conviction for fraud , when the Privy Council had found that he had been the victim of " grievous injustice " and expressed " deep disquiet that by a series of misjudgments [ he had ] been fined , imprisoned and publicly disgraced for offences for which [ he was ] not guilty " [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 5 | The most recent substantial piece of work on public library stock logistics is described in Tony Houghton 's Bookstock management in public libraries ( 1985 ) , again work based upon actual research carried out in a public library system . |
| 6 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 7 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 8 | In the centre was the ironing-board made out of an old table covered with a blanket and a sheet . |
| 9 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 10 | The Old Trafford side lost out in a dramatic penalty shoot-out with Torpedo Moscow when Steve Bruce , Brian McClair and Gary Pallister all failed from the spot . |
| 11 | The Old Trafford side lost out in a dramatic penalty shoot-out with Torpedo Moscow when Steve Bruce , Brian McClair and Gary Pallister all failed from the spot . |
| 12 | This research grew out of an earlier project ( funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the History of the University of Oxford ) to collect data on the social origins , university experience and career destination of a stratified 10% sample of Oxford University 's twentieth century members . |
| 13 | He went off to Barnard Castle up in the North somewhere to practice jumping out of a captive balloon , but he only had one go at |
| 14 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 15 | There are special provisions for actions for personal injuries ( see below ) and automatic directions do not apply to any of the actions listed below : ( 1 ) an action for the administration of the estate of a deceased person ; ( 2 ) an Admiralty action ; ( 3 ) proceedings which are referred for arbitration whether automatically or otherwise under Ord 19 ; ( 4 ) an action arising out of a regulated consumer credit agreement within the meaning of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ; ( 5 ) an action for the delivery of goods ; ( 6 ) an action for the recovery of income tax ; ( 7 ) interpleader proceedings or an action in which an application is made for relief by way of interpleader ; ( 8 ) an action of a kind mentioned in s 66(3) of the Act ( trial by jury ) ; ( 9 ) an action for the recovery of land ; ( 10 ) a partnership action ; ( 11 ) an action to which Ord 48A applies ( patent actions heard at Edmonton County Court ) ; ( 12 ) a contentious probate action ; ( 13 ) a rent action ; ( 14 ) an action to which Ord 5 , r 5 applies ( representative proceedings ) ; ( 15 ) an action to which Ord 9 , r 3(9) applies ( admission of part of plaintiff 's claim ) ; ( 16 ) an action on a third party notice or similar proceedings under Ord 12 ; ( 17 ) an action to which Ord 47 , r 3 applies ( actions in tort between husband and wife ) ; ( 18 ) " cases " transferred from High Court . |
| 16 | But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers . |
| 17 | The reason for the overall cut-off point of ten years is to prevent the threat of legal action stretching out for an unlimited period . |
| 18 | There 's no cover , and — as happened to me — any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb . |
| 19 | He handed her a plate of freshly baked ensaimadas from a tray set out on a white linen cloth . |
| 20 | A low rumble of thunder made her skin break out in a fine rash of goosepimples , and Julius glanced at her sharply as he noticed them . |
| 21 | Ricky and Alejandro had to be dragged away from the horses to a lunch laid out on a blue-and-white checked tablecloth under the gum trees . |
| 22 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 23 | The Oldham Stock Exchange developed out of a new class of capitalists not portrayed in the industrial scenarios of Marx and Engels . |
| 24 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 25 | Richard was so exhausted with cold and emotion that his laugh came out as a foolish titter . |
| 26 | Music and laughter wafted out like an invisible cloud . |
| 27 | Kelly 's question came out as a loud protest . |
| 28 | One had overturned and they stared in amazement as a swarthy-featured European lashed out with a thick bamboo cane at what they first thought was a small animal collapsed between the shafts . |
| 29 | MODERN EXISTENTIALIST thriller played out in a ghoulish horror setting . |
| 30 | The bright bar leads out onto a large terrace at the front of the hotel . |