Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management had a choice of throwing out the canteen manager or bringing out the paper . |
| 2 | London , however , is pounded by commuter traffic and the only policy option which promises relief is determined action to exclude or price out the one-driver commuter car . |
| 3 | Cookery book instructions to " de-seed " tomatoes or squeeze out the watery parts before cooking are unrealistic ; the water content of tomatoes is 94 per cent and the sole effective way to get rid of it is by evaporation . |
| 4 | The writer has not thought or planned out the ideas or points to be made ; the clue of " was was " and doubt about " contend " and " content " point to the speed with which it was written . |
| 5 | It is perfectly proper to raise aesthetic questions in courses in biological sciences or ( in courses on occupational therapy ) on the aesthetic quality of aids given to patients ; or to ask moral questions about work in nuclear physics or ( in legal studies ) about sentencing policy in the courts ; or to find out the historical development of any subject . |
| 6 | This angle can then be used to find the size of an object whose distance is known or to work out the size of the image through a given focal length . |
| 7 | Drill or channel out the wall plaster for rear cable entry |
| 8 | Drill or channel out the wall plaster for water pipe entry |
| 9 | They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits . |
| 10 | It used to be for really petty things like not standing up , or shouting out the window , running up the dinner queue and pushing it . |
| 11 | ) The same may be said of the glissando , produced by rapidly drawing in or pushing out the slide . |
| 12 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 13 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 14 | Punch or draw out the resulting design . |
| 15 | He had two foremans worked under him , the purpose being they did the shifts , my father did all the writing for the Great Central Railway Depot , the marshalling yard or sorting out the trains . |
| 16 | We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ . |
| 17 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 18 | If I 've got to turn out drawers or turn out the airing cupboard or get the kitchen tidy , it 's a relaxation for me and I like it , or just going through some interior decoration books or moving the furniture round — I 'm a great mover of furniture . |
| 19 | Test or try out the beds on display |
| 20 | The directors could apprentice or hire out the children and other inmates , and the industrious poor could be rewarded out of any profits from their work , although no part of the money could be spent on liquor . |
| 21 | Some will allow you to add pictures and diagrams to the document , or lay out the page in columns like a newspaper . |
| 22 | The lightest of touches is required here : avoid heavily orchestrated music and opt instead for small ensembles or solo instruments — or leave out the music altogether and let the natural sound carry the scene . |
| 23 | Usually a contract is seen as an agreement that is freely entered into by both parties , debating or arguing out the terms at arm 's length , but in reality this is a take it or leave it operation , is n't it ? |
| 24 | Or share out the misery ? |
| 25 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 26 | Now the correlation or the calculation of a correlation coefficient or carrying out the correlation statistical test does n't tell you about the nature of the relationship , whether it 's caused or whether it 's erm by chance or whatever . |
| 27 | Our capacity to deny or block out the pain can wear thin . |
| 28 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 29 | These preparations absorb or block out the sun 's harmful ultra-violet rays . |
| 30 | The best way to practise your tiling skills if you 've never done any before if by covering just a small area such as a washbasin splashback , where setting out the tiles so they are centred on the area concerned is a simple job , and you have the minimum of tile cutting to do . |