Example sentences of "[verb] out [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 2 | Such was the speed of the changes in Japan at this time that it is easy to draw a somewhat misleading impression of unilinear progress , a clearly conceived plan of action from the beginning , logically carried out step by step . |
| 3 | Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) himself was sometimes hung by wires ( the disadvantage of which is that they might have to be matted out frame by frame by hand ) or supported on a hydraulic arm that came out of the screen at 90° and which , like his shadow , was hidden by his body . |
| 4 | She spelt out jokes by using the bell , and loved to be read to . |
| 5 | Instead of sprayer operators having to pour out chemicals by hand , he figured , why not fit a syringe system that keeps man and chemical well apart ? |
| 6 | The information only came out bit by bit since she 's still not easy in her mind about talking to us . |
| 7 | The sadness came out week by week and we confronted it . |
| 8 | For instance , sugar came in huge blocks , so that before weighing it out , sufficient must be chipped off with a knife ; and black treacle must be ladled out spoonful by spoonful into the customer 's jar . |
| 9 | The Government could confirm its determination to wipe out drink-driving by making random testing legal . |
| 10 | Fujimori had promised at that time that he would wipe out Sendero by the end of his mandate in 1995 . |
| 11 | This does not rule out evolution by mutation and selection . |
| 12 | The government tried to drive out inflation by announcing that it was prepared to exchange paper money for specie . |
| 13 | Even in industrial co-operatives , that consideration ruled out control by employees , and so confined the trade unions to their traditional concerns . |
| 14 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |
| 15 | The council hopes to send out bills by the end of March with rebates and transitional relief included . |
| 16 | Predicting the weather is a risky business , but you can take out insurance by choosing seeds and plants to cope with both drought and downpour . |
| 17 | The redraft and the original are set out side by side so that typography and language may be compared . |
| 18 | Redcar were involved in a much more competitive game against Guisborough , running out winners by 16–9 . |
| 19 | He was going to be a star turn out West by himself |
| 20 | ‘ How can you leave out Gower by saying he is old at 35 and yet include John Embury , who is 40 ? ’ |
| 21 | Brice Lalonde , the former French Environment Minister and president of Génération Ecologie , has ruled out participation by his party in a French cabinet in the event of a ministerial reshuffle . |
| 22 | Is it true that , while refusing to be interrogated by the House and on television , he is carrying out government by press conference , as he is holding one tomorrow ? |
| 23 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 24 | Although there was a cloakroom on the ground floor the Old Rectory had only one bathroom , a defect which necessitated embarrassed , low-voiced inquiries before anyone upset their carefully worked out rota by taking an unexpected bath . |
| 25 | In fact , there are two labels — Flat Records and U4RA — and we 've put out records by Boys Wonder , MacCavity 's Cat , Surfin' Dead and Sun . |
| 26 | After a dramatic ‘ slide rule ’ finish , Hampshire 's men edged out Yorkshire by a single rubber after three had tied on two group wins . |
| 27 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 28 | What we are doing is casting out Satan by Satan . ’ |
| 29 | He is even accused of casting out devils by the power of Satan ( Luke : 11:15 ) . |
| 30 | Responding to such an equation of the spirit with femaleness , Norris points out that Gregory of Nyssa ( one of the Cappadocians ) does indeed speak of Christ as casting out demons by the power of the Spirit , but that there is nothing in his language to imply a subordination of the Spirit to Christ ! |