Example sentences of "be [vb pp] out [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section .
2 A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms .
3 Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired .
4 She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt .
5 In orthodox psychoanalysis , after the repressions of pre-genital and genital sexuality had been pointed out to the analysand , the choice was then either to sublimate these impulses or to reject them rationally .
6 If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors .
7 It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them .
8 Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds .
9 Yeah it 's been given out on the radio today Dennis .
10 Not all the differences in approach to economic and monetary union have been ironed out between the French and the West Germans but they concern the speed and extent of the shift to a supra-national system , for running the community 's economy .
11 The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals .
12 Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up .
13 Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated .
14 Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession .
15 Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all .
16 Debates followed in parliament with the Unionists in full cry , for the Liberals seemed to have been caught out in a case of open corruption .
17 Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line .
18 When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head .
19 In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more .
20 Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor .
21 The following steps are carried out at the planning stage :
22 These chapters record how the instructions given in chapters 25–31 are carried out to the letter .
23 Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat .
24 Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient .
25 Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them .
26 Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed .
27 The yeoman is the administrative assistant to the food manager and is responsible for the keeping of all records and producing all reports of the department the majority of which are carried out with the help of a computer .
28 They dispense justice , settle land disputes , give orders to civil servants ( which are carried out with an alacrity unknown earlier ) .
29 Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on .
30 When the multiplications are carried out in the order indicated , the upper Hessenberg form is maintained throughout , If , however , we begin by multiplying the central three matrices , the upper Hessenberg form is lost , with a accompanying loss of simplicity .
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