Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] out a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also intended to carry out a number of modifications to the current listings , and to introduce new features which will broaden the usefulness of the Directory . |
| 2 | A procedure on the other hand , is specifically intended to carry out a number of actions , some of which may affect program variables , but it does not directly return a result . |
| 3 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 4 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 5 | No further attacks developed but five escorting destroyers of Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten 's 5th Destroyer Flotilla were detached to carry out a bombardment of Benghazi just after midnight . |
| 6 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 7 | Apart from putting things up , you 're bound to carry out a variety of odd fixing and repair jobs around the house . |
| 8 | Ahead of the voting 110 of the Supreme Soviet 's 450 deputies — members of the radical Democratic Bloc uniting the parliamentary groups from the nationalist Rukh organization , the Ukrainian Language Society and the new Republican Party ( founded on April 30 ) — had walked out of the chamber in protest at Ivashko 's candidacy , on the grounds that he was also currently the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) , and that the acting Speaker of the chamber had refused to read out a statement by the Democratic Bloc to the effect that combining state and party posts in this way was impermissible . |
| 9 | However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure . |
| 10 | The reason given for the ban was that Professor Saburo Ienaga , a noted historian , had refused to strike out a reference in his book to bacteriological and other experiments carried out on Chinese prisoners of war by the now-defunct Imperial Army . |
| 11 | Chief officers have been asked to carry out a survey of people who would like to work reduced hours for less pay if it can be done without hitting the service to the public . |
| 12 | " The venerable Stalinist institution rejects and pushes aside authentic and ambitious Leninists who are not allowed to carve out a career in the PCF because of their bourgeois origins . |
| 13 | Those naturalists who wanted to preserve a role for the supernatural in the creation of life were forced to try out a number of alternatives in an attempt to provide an explanatory framework that would serve as an alternative to evolutionism . |
| 14 | Paris auctioneer Jacques Tajan , partner in France 's largest auction company Ader Tajan , is facing further staff redundancies after being forced to take out a mortgage on his FFr40 million premises on rue Favart as security on bank loans . |