Example sentences of "[verb] out on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 2 | Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour . |
| 3 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 4 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 5 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 6 | It 's the first time in his career he has n't come out on top . |
| 7 | He has survived bankruptcy , libel , and having to resign as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , and he 's still come out on top . |
| 8 | Brenda Lambert , headteacher at South Wellfield First School , Whitley Bay , Tyne and Wear , said : ‘ We made up some of the recipes and John Major 's has come out on top . |
| 9 | So far I 've come out on top , but one day the damn thing will expire just to spite me . ’ |
| 10 | The leading two mile chasers had clashed on six previous occasions and each time Katabatic had come out on top . |
| 11 | If the play were left at that , then , Brutus would have come out on top , but since Mark Antony was left to talk , his extremely clever speech then persuaded the crowd into thinking his way , as we shall see now . |
| 12 | And er I know when I had experience in the past , last New Year , the District Council 's come out on behalf of the residents . |
| 13 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 14 | Local interest in the 250 race was lost when Antrim rider Alan Patterson , a favourite to repeat his first round win , crashed out on lap 11 . |
| 15 | Local interest in the 250 race was lost when Antrim rider Alan Patterson , a favourite to repeat his first round win , crashed out on lap 11 . |
| 16 | BASEBALL BAT BRUTE SPACED out on drink and drugs , Paul used the bat pictured above to bludgeon John to death |
| 17 | any accident loss damage or liability caused sustained or incurred while any Caravan described in the Schedule is let out on hire by the Policyholder being used otherwise than for social domestic and pleasure purposes |
| 18 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 19 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 20 | Their father may know that if he simply ‘ refuses to intervene ’ the older one , stronger and more resourceful , is bound to come out on top … |
| 21 | It was the prison , of course , which was to come out on top . |
| 22 | However did people manage to discipline themselves and stick to a single line for long enough to gain control , to come out on top , to become the boss instead of the employee ? |
| 23 | So what you must do , and it is not easy , is to create a clown-like detective hero who has a core of toughness , of shrewdness even , which will allow him in the end plausibly to come out on top . |
| 24 | I hate to disillusion you , but I 'd have been hard pressed to come out on top with those odds ! ’ |
| 25 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 26 | Private steel companies sought injunctions against the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation who were calling on workers in the private sector of the steel industry to come out on strike to support workers in the public sector who were striking over pay . |
| 27 | Had had to come out on strike , then er all the workers be on strike fund , er did you and your father receive strike money ? |
| 28 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 29 | The favour was reciprocated when Dire Straits were re-formed to play at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert at Wembley Stadium , where Clapton helped out on guitar . |
| 30 | The report includes details of work carried out on milk from two farms near Bolsover , Derbyshire , which was found to contain high levels of dioxins ( Chem . |