Example sentences of "was [vb pp] out at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 2 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 3 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 4 | The research reported here was carried out at the request of the Scottish Office Education Department in June and in November 1991 . |
| 5 | A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) . |
| 6 | A large shaft station was blasted out at the rock shaft at Deep Level ( see Fig. 14 ) and the work revealed a bonus in the form of a nice bunch of ore on a narrow quartz vein — Dry Gill Vein — which at that point runs approximately parallel to the Bonsor Vein . |
| 7 | It now leads , via sharp bends , into the town , whose broad market place was laid out at the gate of Kimbolton Castle probably around 1200 . |
| 8 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 9 | The resulting invoice was printed out at the payment counter where Mr. A paid £204.6 plus VAT instead of the proper sum of £710.96 plus VAT. ( iv ) The respondent was arrested on 19 October 1990 . |
| 10 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 11 | He left a note explaining his action and it was read out at the inquest . |
| 12 | The poignant vow was read out at the funeral service for the two children who died this week after being overcome by fumes in their cabin aboard the ferry Celtic Pride . |
| 13 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 14 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |