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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more .
4 Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor .
5 The following steps are carried out at the planning stage :
6 These chapters record how the instructions given in chapters 25–31 are carried out to the letter .
7 Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed .
11 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 .
12 They dispense justice , settle land disputes , give orders to civil servants ( which are carried out with an alacrity unknown earlier ) .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase .
16 The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer .
17 This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered .
18 The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not .
19 This is very much less certain when the operations are carried out by the state or by non-resident financial institutions or investors seeking to rearrange their affairs advantageously , particularly in the UK where forestry receives substantial fiscal incentives .
20 Unlike users of reference services or online services , where search negotiations are carried out by the librarian or intermediary , users have had to know what they wanted .
21 The chairman and deputy chairman of the Panel are appointed by the Governor of the Bank of England but the Panel 's day-to-day functions are carried out by the Director General and his executive staff who are seconded from the Bank of England and various organisations within the City of London .
22 NEW WAYS TO DIP INTO INFORMATION Document image processing can only fulfil vendors ' claims if the right analysis and preparation are carried out before a decision to buy is made
23 These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension .
24 Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse .
25 Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse .
26 Stray capacitances to earth from P' 1 and P' 2 are shorted out by the primary of the detector transformer at balance .
27 The process leaves residues of unburnt coal and ash , which are separated out from the flue gas and put back into the furnace .
28 Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other .
29 they are airlifted out in a helicopter gunship
30 The hill farms generally have small fields near the valley bottoms , larger rough grazing ‘ in-bye ’ areas which adjoin the open hill , and common hill land where sheep , ponies , and occasionally cattle are turned out during the summer .
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