Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] out the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the same way , if you want to find out the area of the shop floor you simply multiply the length of the room by its width , eg
2 And then if you want to find out the reason for the tension or how to stop it , what you have to do is look at the interests of those concerned .
3 Question : I want to work out the total on a set of numeric fields in my Paradox data table , so that I can see how much has been made by my sales staff .
4 However , the amytal studies appear to rule out the force of this logical objection since in cases of bilateral speech some difficulty has been noted with injection on either side .
5 Gulf board games , for people who want to slug out the war by pushing cardboard counters across a map , are also proliferating .
6 Only thus could he step outside of the present situation and hope to puzzle out the riddle of Zephro Carnelian — even while being forced to react predictably …
7 you know working out the potential of their land and how they can erm use their land and their properties to the best
8 Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory .
9 I keep squinting out the window of the 188 bus to recognize where it was we hid Patterson .
10 The executives who try to wring out the risk from forecasts , reworking and re-working the numbers in the equations until they produce a profit , at best plan for mediocrity .
11 The main stand is a gutted shell and home games have been played at Guisborough while club staff try to thrash out the situation with insurers .
12 By contrast , some of the older countries , who got a history of calm and stability , they have Anthems which try to bring out the beauty of the country .
13 If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost .
14 I tend to dish out the red for man trouble , the blue for woman trouble , the yellow for baby trouble , and green for anything else .
15 It is best to phone the company before you write to find out the name of the person you should write to .
16 They help to mark out the field within which the theologian has to work and to discover what his own role and contribution should be .
17 Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill .
18 There was an abortive attempt at a ‘ Maureen Lipman says write to me about your washing problems ’ which made me squirm with embarrassment to the extent that I 've blocked out the name of the liquid detergent concerned .
19 While we actually do the a the removal , we usually have other agencies with us such as the N S P C C , the police , who have to carry out the investigation into what has actually happened , and erm in the end the court .
20 Many have pointed out the absurdity of concluding that the reality is impersonal and purposeless on the basis of a methodology which deliberately and systematically excludes such notions .
21 The result would be a deterioration of services in all the ways that my Hon. Friends have pointed out the cleanliness of the buses , the regularity of services and the kind of facilities that are made available to the unemployed , women , the elderly and the disabled .
22 And some day we all have to find out the difference between romance and real life .
23 You need to work out the structure of the report in advance .
24 As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ .
25 Young children may well appreciate this before they have sorted out the relation between connective , mode , and temporal order .
26 Parliamentary counsel have the inconsiderate habit of not telling you ( for example , in a footnote or marginal note ) that a particular word in the section is defined somewhere else in the statute ; you have to ferret out the information for yourself .
27 If you are a dedicated sun-worshipper , you need to mark out the part of the garden where the sun lingers longest .
28 If there is a hollow instead of the swelling , you have prised out the bud with the pith sliver and ruined it — start again with another .
29 Contrary to reports in Paris last week , government investigators working at the central police laboratory here have ruled out the presence of the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex , which caused the Lockerbie disaster .
30 Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living .
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