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

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1 ‘ Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one .
2 She put her hands over her ears to shut out a repetition of all those humiliating accusations , her training flying straight out of the window .
3 As part of the 1993 Business Challenge , organised by the Industrial Society , schools teamed up with companies to carry out a range of special projects .
4 His Hal would be a truant Prince , perhaps , a man disobedient to his father and contemptuous of the popular expectation , but no less a Prince for that , always watching , always using the lines to cut out a space for himself .
5 Even in the towns , where officials were concentrated , the government had to rely right into the nineteenth century on reluctant elected townsmen to carry out a host of fiscal , economic , and general administrative functions .
6 Engage an independent consultant today ( there are still one or two good ones left ) and arrange to take your team away for a couple of days to brainstorm out a vision of success for the next two to five years .
7 The staff development day which is to follow shortly afterwards is to be used by the different year teams to work out a programme of study .
8 The value of a religious noviciate which asks novices to try out a variety of these functions in turn is that it exposes novices to the value of each .
9 We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance .
10 According to him , the Black and Tans were a terror force , hastily recruited from ex-soldiers to carry out a policy of naked and bloody reprisals against the IRA .
11 Surprisingly , it 's normal for some women to squirt out a fluid at the moment of orgasm .
12 The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] .
13 It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years .
14 Back at Shenstone meanwhile , Le Roux was perfecting plans to bring out a range of Norton-logoed ‘ accessories ’ , everything from leather jackets to pocket knives to diaries and cigarette lighters emblazoned with the famous ‘ N ’ .
15 Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work .
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