Example sentences of "[vb pp] out [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 2 | The ‘ best ’ rooms have chimney-pieces picked out in a canny false-stone effect ( in fact no more than mortar ) or else ornamented by rubbed and painted bricks . |
| 3 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 4 | Their examination profits from the use of ultra-thin sections ( Chapter 4 ) , employed initially in studies of carbonate diagenesis ( Lindholm & dean , 1973 ) , so that initial research into mudrock diagenesis can now be carried out with a good petrological microscope . |
| 5 | Much of the Group 's work is carried out under a comprehensive quality-assurance programme , and the Group provides the internal auditors for the whole of the BGS quality-assurance programme . |
| 6 | Planning exhibitions should be carried out within a rolling three-year cycle , so that strategic , management , budgetary , horticultural , and logistic aspects can be incorporated in a professional manner well ahead of time . |
| 7 | The nationalization of the railways , the creation of the state holding company INI , the acquisition of a major state shareholding in the telephone company , were carried out by a repressive authoritarian regime which had crushed organized labour . |
| 8 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 9 | Some five years ago , a survey was carried out by a major British company on this subject . |
| 10 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 11 | Since it is essential , not only that the glue should be heated to about 150°C. but also that there should be no appreciable gap or space in the joint , the gluing operation had , in practice , to be carried out in a heated hydraulic press . |
| 12 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |
| 13 | If a once beautiful and honest young girl has become dishevelled and has dropped out of a promising educational course and is in perpetual trouble with the Police , then it is almost superfluous to ask questions on drug use or to look for physical signs of drug addiction , even though clinical accuracy demands this . |
| 14 | They made a bit more fuss soon afterwards when Erich Honecker , the former East German leader , was whisked out of a Soviet military hospital in the east and flown to Moscow , beyond the reach of German prosecutors . |
| 15 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 16 | The scanner , made out of a large magnetic tube , gives detailed medical checks without surgery or side-effects . |
| 17 | Since the goddess herself was not permitted to die , the annual death and rebirth were acted out by a young male Year-spirit , a small and inferior deity who took the roles of son and consort , and represented the important principle of discontinuity in nature . |
| 18 | If a major war in Europe appears likely , the flights will disperse up to 160 km from their main operating base so that they can not be wiped out in a single nuclear attack . |
| 19 | The January 1992 edition is being mailed out with a special 60-page supplement on the history of the feminist movement in Latin America . |
| 20 | The incidence of high rates of non-returners is borne out in a Far Eastern Economic Review report which suggested that out of the 50,000 scholars sent abroad since 1978 , at the start of the reform decade , only 20,000 have returned . |
| 21 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 22 | In the population served by Oxford Regional Health Authority during the year to September 1990 , 978 boys were circumcised out of a total estimated population of 299 600 — a rate of 0.33% a year ( statistics unit of Oxford Regional Health Authority ) . |
| 23 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 24 | The White Paper , Caring for People , was a partial response to Griffiths and it can be fleshed out into a workable comprehensive policy ; it became law in June 1990 with the passing of the NHS and Community Care Act . |
| 25 | She is an essential but individually helpless cog in the colonial machine ; she is pinned out like a pre-columbian sacrificial victim , bruised and blood-stained ; she is a religious icon , like a popular image of the Virgin Maria ; she is a mannikin from some popular religious festival . |
| 26 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 27 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 28 | The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters . |
| 29 | The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters . |
| 30 | The T9000 memory is laid out as a dual ported memory and is therefore accessible for measurements by the T805 . |