Example sentences of "[verb] out for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 2 | The pull-out cutlery drawer can be lifted out for easy unloading . |
| 3 | Lancaster 's objections to the regime , however , were concerned just as much with domestic affairs : he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness , singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife , He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been ‘ wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone , in destruccioun of him and of his folk ’ , and proposed that Mortimer ‘ shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Vernon added that , as though to celebrate the anniversary , the fund raisers had turned in record figures yet again , singling out for special thanks the branches and guilds new record of over £10m . |
| 5 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 6 | and so on , every month their money is straight into the bank all their cheques come in straight into the bank so he 'll , you know , and I mean our pla , and the whole of the site nearly is let out for different people , you know , which is money coming in all the time |
| 7 | The Staffordshire Blithe , whose lower reaches escaped the axe and are therefore witness to how exquisite a properly managed river can be , was picked out for special mention in the Journal of Agriculture for 1927 . |
| 8 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 9 | ‘ I still have n't been able to find out for sure . |
| 10 | A : I 'd be surprised if you do have a virus , but the only way to find out for sure is to use some reputable anti-virus software to examine your hard disk — F-PROT is very good and is public domain to individual , non-corporate users . |
| 11 | We are thus given a means of exploring some of the behaviour ( especially the ‘ irrational ’ behaviour ) of our users , of exploring stories some of which cry out for psychoanalytic examination ( particularly ‘ classics ’ such as Lewis Carroll 's Alice stories and J. M. Barrie 's disturbing Peter Pan ) , and of understanding the profound impact of such books as those of Maurice Sendak . |
| 12 | It has proved particularly useful for the management of high risk patients such as the medically unfit , frail and elderly in whom cholecystectomy is associated with mortality rates of 10% , or higher when carried out for acute complications . |
| 13 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 14 | A similar recognition process is carried out for static input . |
| 15 | Further quantitative analysis may be carried out for consonant structure , liquid confusion , lengthening , palatalisation and order of acquisition of consonants , although this requires the test to be tape recorded and can be successfully completed only by someone with a sound knowledge of phonemic analysis . |
| 16 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 17 | But these murders were crafted in the human soul and decided upon by the human mind even if carried out for malicious , devilish purposes . |
| 18 | The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons described docking as ‘ an unjustified mutilation ’ unless carried out for medical reasons . |
| 19 | Kaysen has pointed out that : ‘ [ d ] ecisions as to the technical areas which will be systematically explored by research and development divisions and decisions as to what scientific and technical novelties will be translated into new products and processes and tried out for economic viability have very deep effects . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu himself knew the cynical and cringing apologetics of those managers who were caught out for gross failure to follow the plan . |
| 21 | And the FBI said it had participated only to help fingerprint the victims ; yet there is an FBI report on the incident with over 200 pages blacked out for national security reasons . |
| 22 | Thus women with a high probability of developing such problems can be separated out for preventive therapy research programmes , in an effort to decrease the morbidity and mortality these women subsequently suffer . |
| 23 | prospecting ( looking out for new selling opportunities ) |
| 24 | This refers to concentrating on and looking out for specific details in the world around you . |
| 25 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 26 | ‘ My mother ’ , Ivy said , ‘ told me that when I was a child , she spent all the year looking out for small things to put in my stocking . |
| 27 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 28 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 29 | Study this example : unc We can save rewriting by looking out for common factors above and below the division line . |
| 30 | looking out for hidden signals . |