Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] out on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 2 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 3 | The thirteenth victim of The Fox was photographed on a beach with her skirt hitched up , arm-in-arm with her boyfriend ; their eyes were masked out on the photograph , which was captioned' … rebuilding their romance ’ . |
| 4 | Books were spread out on the ground . |
| 5 | NI contributions are worked out on the gross pay , before all deductions . |
| 6 | Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients . |
| 7 | At Pearl Harbor itself exactly at 0800hrs morning colours were carried out on the moored ships , the first wave of enemy aircraft was sighted but not suspected . |
| 8 | The existence of both acute and chronic illnesses was ruled out on the basis of a complete anamnesis and full clinical and biological examination including routine haematological counts , serum glycaemia , total cholesterol , triglycerides , and renal and liver functions tests ( Technicon SMA-20 Autoanalyzer ) . |
| 9 | Did you realise that 43 per cent of all sociological surveys are carried out on the M1 , M4 and M6 ? |
| 10 | " The way the pots are laid out on the floor upside down , all showing the marks . |
| 11 | The long metal tubes , detonators , detonating cord and homemade explosives are laid out on the ground , whilst the Police and the host of other interested parties take photographs . |
| 12 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |
| 13 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 14 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 15 | Many personal arguments were played out on the book 's pages , sadly trivialising its function . |
| 16 | ‘ Sums were worked out on the backs of envelopes , it was chaos , ’ recalls one former member of his Household . |
| 17 | Incidentally , although some models have view-finders which are adjustable to suit either right-eye or left-eye viewing , camcorder design on the whole favours right-handed people in the way that the controls are laid out on the body . |
| 18 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 19 | Bearded seals were hauled out on the ice-floes here and there and there were occasional puffins and guillemots in the bits of open water . |
| 20 | On structural grounds alone , a new building was needed as it was now so weak that it probably would not be able to withstand building operations being carried out on the surrounding land . |
| 21 | The children are left out on the plains with a few goats from a very young age . |
| 22 | The handicaps are worked out on the results of a trial race and then on all subsequent races everyone starts at minute intervals depending on their previous result . |
| 23 | A study of electoral propaganda conveys the impression that many of the General Elections were fought out on the great party issues of the day : religion , the war , and the security of the protestant succession . |
| 24 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 25 | Therefore , in order to minimise the risk of falsely rejecting an existing difference , p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant although multiple tests were carried out on the same data . |
| 26 | Those proceedings were struck out on the basis that his claim fell within the exclusive jurisdiction of the visitor of the university and so he petitioned the visitor , Her Majesty the Queen . |
| 27 | As the ballot papers are going out on the twenty sixth ? |
| 28 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 29 | Most churches were laid out on the basis of equilateral triangles and squares , the so-called ‘ ad triangulum ’ and ‘ ad quodraturn ’ methods . |