Example sentences of "[v-ing] out the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 2 | It has to work through the agency of its possessors , and especially by picking out the weak points of their characters — possessiveness in Bilbo , fear in Frodo , patriotism in Boromir , pity in Gandalf . |
| 3 | Picking out the salient points of a lengthy report , making a positive contribution to a formal meeting or an informal social gathering ; making an effective presentation or negotiating a deal that will stick … |
| 4 | You 'd be better off spending time seeking out the great women of your own day , young man ; turn off that radio . |
| 5 | If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu . |
| 6 | By the nineteenth century , as today , chemists were intent on sifting out the so-called impurities of plants in order to isolate their ‘ active principles ’ . |
| 7 | The latter methods are used by every modern choreographer working with classical dance because it is more flexible and expressive and many dancers trained in its technique are capable of acting out the deepest emotions of the characters played , as Ashton and MacMillan have continually shown . |
| 8 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 9 | Substituting these in the theorems ( 4.16 ) above gives , after separating out the requisite components of L , M , the inequalities ( 4.12 ) and ( 4.13 ) . |
| 10 | Amy was typing envelopes , sending out the final copies of the newsletter . |
| 11 | If there is goodwill on both sides , sorting out the precise details of the termination deal may not be too difficult once there is a consensus on the key points of principle . |
| 12 | Fiction reflects the changes in the concept of honour , personal or institutional , sorting out the basic scruples of conscience and the natural feelings of compassion and devotion which must be newly defined for each and every period in time . |
| 13 | The Chancellor , the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , and the Prime Minister have the task of pointing out the financial realities of life to their colleagues . |
| 14 | Once they realized that no presents could ever be exactly the same and that they could help him to take pleasure in his sister 's presents by pointing out the good features of one of her new toys to her they felt more confident in coping with his reactions . |
| 15 | Yet the fact that many primitive peoples regulate interpersonal relations with a fair degree of predictability and humanity , without the help of a centralized political system , is one that most anthropologists would now endorse ; however , unlike Engels , they do this without pointing out the political implications of such an observation . |
| 16 | The Ukraine suffered particularly heavy losses during the 1930s there was a devastating and , it is now accepted , largely man-made famine during the early part of the decade , and the republican leadership was badly affected by charges of ‘ nationalism ’ ( in practice , for pointing out the likely outcomes of central policies ) . |
| 17 | Being a nurse , she 's always pointing out the dire effects of too much caffeine . ’ |
| 18 | Angie Bowie : ‘ With the Arts Lab in full swing , Ken Pitt was ironing out the finer points of a new record deal with Mercury Records and in his own way was very lucid about David because he never actually saw him rooted in England or rooted only in rock and roll . |
| 19 | Ullman 's general approach suggests that these could well be relatively low-level processes , not requiring cerebral computations ( as puzzling out the correct values of the variables in the formula for Snell 's law presumably does ) . |
| 20 | For Hopkins , as for Blackwell , women 's moral power lay in their capacity to harness and control male sexual energy by drawing out the spiritual impulses of human nature . |
| 21 | Noise near the origin may be reduced by filtering out the low-frequency components of equations ( 6 ) ( P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 22 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 23 | Van Praagh became a close friend of the Cranko family , Herbert and Phyllis as well as John ; she proved a valuable ally , not only for her position within the company but also because she had a flair for bringing out the best qualities of young dancers and choreographers , and guiding them in their careers . |
| 24 | Once the tune comes fairly accurately , the teacher can concentrate on meaning , bringing out the basic elements of the situation . |
| 25 | As he went , his path was lit by the sudden brilliance of the flames which leapt up in his rear , their hungry roar almost drowning out the agonised shrieks of the writhing human torch in their midst . |
| 26 | Kitting out THE controversial subjects of the issue of replica kits and stewarding at soccer matches are examined in Standing Room Only ( BBC2 6.55pm ) . |
| 27 | Holyfield 's men , and there are plenty of them , including a woman as ballet coach , are certain that he will emerge as a true heavyweight champion , capable of taking out the big men of the division . |
| 28 | Father Reynard walked across to the cemetery , making out the dark shapes of the wooden crosses , mounds of earth and ghostly elm trees . |
| 29 | She was flown immediately by helicopter to Hillsborough Castle in County Down where she was carrying out the only engagements of the visit , a lunch party and a garden party for 1,200 people on a day Ulster was swept by torrential rain . |
| 30 | ‘ this approach is in accord with the approach of the general law of principal and agent in relation to fraudulent misrepresentations made by an agent in carrying out the specific instructions of his principal . |