Example sentences of "were [verb] out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 2 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 3 | The deportations were carried out despite a formal request from the UNHCR that Britain be more flexible in the application of its asylum rules in the interest of ‘ international burden sharing ’ . |
| 4 | Furthermore , no alteration of the protein pattern in the electrophoresis was observed when the competitions were carried out with the mutated oligonucleotides ( results not shown ) , demonstrating that the binding of the proteins to the oligonucleotide was specific . |
| 5 | Subsequent measurements were carried out with the 76-m Lovell telescope at frequencies between 408MHz and 1,660 MHz . |
| 6 | These producers were carried out in a darkened room . |
| 7 | Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building . |
| 8 | Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 . |
| 9 | According to this view the democratic political revolutions were carried out by a new class — the bourgeoisie — which was formed in the process of development of commercial and industrial capitalism ; and the future of democracy would be vitally affected by the inherent tendencies of capitalist production and the relation between the bourgeoisie and the other new class in capitalist society — the proletariat . |
| 10 | The nationalization of the railways , the creation of the state holding company INI , the acquisition of a major state shareholding in the telephone company , were carried out by a repressive authoritarian regime which had crushed organized labour . |
| 11 | The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states . |
| 12 | Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association . |
| 13 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 14 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 15 | Two thousand pest callers were caught out by a new tracing scheme launched with the help of police in West Yorkshire last month . |
| 16 | It is high time the variable quality of international referees and the anomalies that abound in interpretation were sorted out by an International Board Survey . |
| 17 | Enclosed monks and nuns , hermits and anchoresses , were sought out by the secular clergy and by the laity for advice and help . |
| 18 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 19 | Trees were cleared from the banks , and raised flood-banks were built out of the dredged material alongside the stream course . |
| 20 | He and Mum were moved out to the new estate . |
| 21 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 22 | Since the goddess herself was not permitted to die , the annual death and rebirth were acted out by a young male Year-spirit , a small and inferior deity who took the roles of son and consort , and represented the important principle of discontinuity in nature . |
| 23 | International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus . |
| 24 | Closed basins as deep as 135 feet were bitten out of the underlying basalt . |
| 25 | His passengers were filing out in a dazed little procession . |
| 26 | And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country . |
| 27 | The travellers were heading out into the empty desert . |
| 28 | The fish they were pulling out of the Swedish lakes were badly deformed . |
| 29 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 30 | Plates were handed out at a commemorative dinner by Health Authority Chairman Maurice Proctor . |