Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] out [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis .
2 The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation .
3 Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village .
4 Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber .
5 Ledger work — writing out the transactions carried out by a company in a day book , book-keeping and sometimes calculating the staff wages
6 This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant .
7 If they are not , monofilament nets must be replaced by biodegradable multifilament nets made out of a material like cotton , which are detectable by dolphin sonar .
8 Bracewell , 29 , claimed the directors backed out of a promise to give him a two-year contract by offering him only a 12-month deal to stay .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 Both , according to the latest figures conjured out of a hat by the French , have just over 35 per cent of the market .
12 All four of Charles 's children who married were to do so by licence ; that suited two of them — Elizabeth in Frome and then Benjamin in London — who were in a bit of a hurry , but in Sarah 's case there was maybe a hint of Nonconformist protest against having banns read out in a church which she did not attend .
13 On a scale of one to ten with ten representing normality and one representing having your teeth pulled out without an anaesthetic , I 'd say Love Hearts rated about a four .
14 But soon they too would be absorbed by the world of the camp , know their way about it in their sleep , do the washing-up and water-carrying once a week , or walk about like negroes in G-strings made out of a towel .
15 The Duveen Galleries are basically a large hallway formed by three separate but continuous rooms strung out in a line , which empty into the side galleries to the right and left .
16 They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute .
17 As I was walking up to his house two young bearded men in jeans and sweaters got out of a car and ran towards me .
18 intestines torn out by a guinea pig that 's rabid ?
19 The charges arose from an incident in Cypress Road , Witham , on January 19 last year when three men got out of a car and set about Mr Hawes .
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