Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] out a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he urge the chairman to carry out a study of the economics of mining anthracite from small drift mines employing up to 75 people because many believe that mined in that way , anthracite could be extremely saleable and competitive in relation to both opencast operations and imports of Chinese coal ? |
| 2 | When survey data are coded and punched for analysis by computer it is all too easy to ask the computer to carry out a range of cross-tabulations of one factor by another . |
| 3 | Some royal anniversary , death , separation or divorce was being made the excuse to trot out a lot of cheap old newsreel footage , but it did n't matter what was on . |
| 4 | Rank 's attempt to carve out a niche in the American market failed because his films were too slow and talkative for transatlantic tastes . |
| 5 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 6 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 7 | They interviewed teachers , headmasters , parents , chiefs and their counsellors , local farmers and final year pupils in schools in an attempt to bring out a picture of the local and school environment and of needs and aspirations of young people and adults . |
| 8 | The next step involves staff learning complex commands to tell the machine to carry out a sequence of tasks . |
| 9 | This study confirms the need to carry out a follow-through of all persons arrested and not look simply at discrete ‘ moments ’ in the process . |
| 10 | Norman Fowler , Secretary of State for Employment , is planning to couple announcements about further trade union legislation in the next session of Parliament with an attack on Labour 's plans for restoring rights to trade unions , including the right to carry out a form of secondary , ‘ sympathy' action . |
| 11 | The association contracted the Fluid Processes Group to carry out a review of the nature , origins , occurrences and hazards of methane in the context of the construction industry in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | The need to keep the client informed does not necessarily include a need to send out a copy of every item of correspondence . |
| 13 | It is possible for a Policyholder to take out a policy without the benefit of index-linking . |
| 14 | The ‘ potentate ’ may have to be interviewed to obtain permission and goodwill to carry out a study in the institution he controls , such as a factory , office , school or youth club . |
| 15 | Tomorrow he would tell his wife to put out a shirt of softer cotton . |
| 16 | He moved closer , delving in the pocket of his dinner jacket to lift out a carton of cigarettes and light one , his pale eyes gleaming as he studied her over the glowing tip . |
| 17 | A historical study may require documentary and statistical evidence to test out a number of hypotheses . |
| 18 | JOHN Major presided over a special Downing Street summit of ministers last night to thrash out a solution to the Government 's deadlock over the pit closure programme . |
| 19 | KPMG has been appointed by the European Commission to carry out a survey of venture capitalists in the European Community . |
| 20 | The de Vitto report on the social charter action programme called for the commission to carry out a survey into legislation and practices that discriminated on the grounds of age and to take measures to guarantee equal treatment for elderly people . |
| 21 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 22 | In respect of the Cossacks , Robertson was simply giving authorization to Eighth Army to carry out a course of action suggested by Eighth Army and " recommended by Macmillan " . |
| 23 | Some of the President 's advisers on industrial recovery wanted a national plan , with the Federal government in command ; others wanted business and government to work out a scheme of co-operation on a voluntary basis . |
| 24 | the addition of space to fill out a line of type using en or em blocks . |
| 25 | A spate of fires in disconnected homes , culminating in the deaths of children in Sunderland , prompted Southwick Neighbourhood Action Project to carry out a survey of disconnections on an interwar estate of semi-detached houses recently modernised with gas fires , back boilers and central heating . |
| 26 | Marie-Hélène opened her wardrobe and reached into the pocket of an ample winter coat to bring out a box of truffles . |
| 27 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 28 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 29 | Firemen used a single hose reel to put out a blaze in a car in Old Cemetery Road , Hartlepool . |
| 30 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel to put out a blaze in a garage in Nicholson Way , Hartlepool . |