Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish police carrying out the criminal investigation on Lockerbie had earlier been authorized to interview the suspect , named as Mohamed Abu Talb , who had worked under various identities for Palestinian groups in Egypt and Lebanon , but his lawyers refused to agree to interrogation procedures . |
| 2 | BBC-1 bosses , inflicting this on our screens in the new Good Morning show , should be shown being force-fed with porridge as so-called celebrities read out the honeyed words . |
| 3 | Comparing the average profiles brings out the stark contrast in the slopes of the two curves after the age of 30 which is partially explained by career interruption at marriage . |
| 4 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |
| 5 | Small companies combined to survive until they became vast conglomerates squeezing out the smaller shops . |
| 6 | It 's up to the organic farmers to sort out the inconsistent supply complaint . |
| 7 | It seems quite likely , since the ancient inhabitants of Crete and other Mediterranean islands wiped out the indigenous populations of elephants , pygmy hippos , giant dormice , and owls , for no better reason than that they needed to eat . |
| 8 | The man who wishes to move quickly through a dense forest towards a house in the middle ( in the absence of a well-trodden path ) takes advantage of simple maps and surrounding hills to spy out the quickest route . |
| 9 | Many people also complain that our present hierarchies bring out the nastier aspects of human behavior , like greed , insensitivity , careerism and self-importance . |
| 10 | To count the nuclei of TE and ICM in late blastocysts carry out the following procedure . |
| 11 | ( That is assuming that the United Nations sorts out the regulatory problems . ) |
| 12 | Yeah well the thing is that something 's got ta shift because we 've got we 've got all these bloody flights going out the same time |
| 13 | Simpson 's collected sermons set out the Antinomian creed he never retracted . |
| 14 | After the reports some political worthies spew out the same old phrases they parroted last time the natives grew restless somewhere . |
| 15 | Armed police staked out the luxury home in their 11-day hunt for gang boss Jean Louis Camerini and his hostage , six-year-old Melodie Nash . |
| 16 | To recover fertilized or unfertilized eggs carry out the following procedure : |
| 17 | Reluctantly , he pulled the cord again and mercifully the red curtains blanked out the abandoned sylphide . |
| 18 | As you all know , the American imperialists carried out the ruinous separate election and organised the so-called National Assembly with the support of the traitor minority and with savage oppression upon the majority of the South Korean people . |
| 19 | Guardian writer John , 60 , had flown to Austria with other newsmen to test out the gleaming XJ220 on a racing circuit near Salzburg . |
| 20 | Three inches in from the portal , Kirov 's keen eyes picked out the single human hair which he had fixed , with a smear of soapstone , between the door and the bare wooden floor . |
| 21 | The manager may take on that role but the new volunteers may find that they lack support as the manager is likely to be too busy with other duties to carry out the in-bureau training task thoroughly . |
| 22 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 23 | I caught myself shouting at people or giving them lectures about elementary things like the importance of oiling their bikes ( I later discovered that oiling bikes in dusty regions wears out the moving parts rather than preserving them ) . |
| 24 | Legislation created a host of unemployed bureaucrats , municipal and seigniorial officials , who exhibited what liberals called ‘ passive ’ opposition to the constitution — the refusal of local authorities to carry out the administrative changes and apply the laws of the Cortes . |
| 25 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |