Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] out by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times .
2 This is an analysis of what the major activities carried out by the organisation should be .
3 The answers to these questions are discovered from the diagram ( given certain simple diagrammatic transformations carried out by the system , which are structurally analogous to changes that would happen in the real world ) , rather than being computed in terms of abstract mathematical equations and specific numerical values .
4 The action follows detailed investigations carried out by the board last month .
5 Many of the operations carried out by the sponsor are typical of small-batch operations in large sectors of UK manufacturing and one of the aims of this stage of the research is the derivation of a systematic analysis of production operations in order to gauge the economic potential of fully automated operations .
6 Mr. Park went on to argue that there were three phases in the operations carried out by the taxpayer , namely : ( 1 ) the pre-contract phase where business was solicited abroad , ( 2 ) the making of the contracts , and ( 3 ) the performance of the contract throughout the stipulated period of duration in the overseas country by refraining from taking action there against the sub-licensee .
7 Describe in detail the sequence of steps carried out by the store , data manipulation unit , and control unit of the Von Neumann computer when executing the sequence of instructions given in Figure 1.6 .
8 ‘ Come on , ’ he mouthed , his words drowned out by the music .
9 Good starting points are the many waymarked trails laid out by the Forestry Commission .
10 The pilot stage was concluded early in 1988 and evaluations carried out by the Centre of Applied Research in education ( CARE ) at the University of Essex , indicated , in general terms , that the project justified further development in interactive video resources .
11 In this model there are two distinct functions carried out by the Treasury : economic policy , planning and advice ; and financial management control .
12 Mullineux ( 1985 ) argues that many functions carried out by the Bank of England could be done so by private sector institutions .
13 Ledger work — writing out the transactions carried out by a company in a day book , book-keeping and sometimes calculating the staff wages
14 The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ?
15 In a recent study of British libraries carried out by the Graphic Information Research Unit at the Royal College of Art for the British Library ( 1977 ) , it was found that ‘ the general standard of graphics was poor … signs in particular tended to vary in design and construction ’ .
16 The inter-library comparison of 14 university libraries carried out by the Centre for Interfirm Comparison in 1979/80 showed how staff costs are predominating over the budgets for materials .
17 It was explained to Sir Robert Armstrong that ‘ weasel words ’ are ‘ words empty of meaning , like an egg which has had its contents sucked out by a weasel . ’
18 I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’
19 But Mr Rafsanjani is exposed to accusations that he is departing from the policies set out by the leader of Iran 's Islamic revolution , the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and may have seized on the Mujahideen attacks to demonstrate that he is not selling out the imam 's legacy .
20 Bizarre though the synchro-energy system might sound , it 's touched a raw nerve among jaded New Yorkers worn out by a decade of hard , hyped-up materialistic living .
21 FIMBRA was entitled at its discretion from time to time to make spot checks on companies subject to its regulatory umbrella and therefore the details of the businesses carried out by the company might at any time have become known to it .
22 Oil- rather than coal — emerges as the dirtiest fuel in a comparative study on the environmental costs of energy sources carried out by the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment ( CSERGE ) .
23 Surveys carried out by the council and school children showq a marked increase in traffic over the last year .
24 The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 .
25 These surveys add data to those furnished by previous surveys carried out by the Preservation Division in recent years , that measured the brittle paper problem in the Library and the condition of particular areas of the special collections and manuscript collections .
26 Excise tax data showed a 4 percent increase in smoking in 1990 , and household surveys carried out by the Health Department confirmed the increase .
27 While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . ,
28 Also the appeal is governed by the principles set out by the House of Lords in G. v. G. ( Minors : Custody Appeal ) [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 647 .
29 Out on the streets … homeless families forced out by the cost of insurance .
30 And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun .
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