Example sentences of "[conj] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil Engineering offers an exciting and well-paid career with opportunities to work either both in an office or out on site both in the UK and overseas . |
| 2 | They are largely nocturnal , spending their days either down the burrows or out at sea gliding on stiff wings . |
| 3 | If you are busy at home or out at work ( and perhaps you have others to look after as well ) it can be hard to envisage any free time . |
| 4 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 5 | In most shows ‘ hands-on ’ technology tends to be a token feature ; either over-subscribed or out of order . |
| 6 | Great literature is only partly the reflection of a particular year or generation : it is also a timeless thing , which can never become old-fashioned or out of date , or depend for its importance upon historical considerations . |
| 7 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 8 | It is , in fact , an amphibian , which can live in or out of water . |
| 9 | talking about experiences in or out of school , eg a school trip , a family outing , a television programme seen ; |
| 10 | That the governing body might record the names of those whose work in or out of school is particularly noteworthy . |
| 11 | A non-competitive literacy test ( in Sesotho ) is recommended to be taken at the end of the first cycle or any time thereafter prior to the final examination since mastery of literacy skills is seen as the first priority in primary school education in Lesotho — ‘ if learners are to profit from further opportunities for education in or out of school . ’ |
| 12 | After a project is completed , children can pass on their finished product to its intended audience , which may be classmates , or children younger or older than themselves , or even adults in or out of school , and can then evaluate the audience 's reaction . |
| 13 | If on the other hand he wept on account of worldly things , or out of wrath because an enemy prevailed over him , or envy of another man because he possessed such abundance whilst he himself possessed none , then his prayer is docked , defective and void . ’ |
| 14 | He pointed out that in many countries of Eastern Europe , Communists had been forced into coalition or out of government . |
| 15 | Arrangements for reorganisation , in or out of court , sound like a formality ; a fixed outside factor of doing business . |
| 16 | In America , whether in or out of court , the managers who led the firm into the ditch often remain at the controls while it is pulled out . |
| 17 | The grain may be in a pocket , hidden inside a box , or out of sight above the horse on a bird table . |
| 18 | The blonde woman was always elegantly dressed and absolutely immaculate , even when she came off the beach , her hair neatly pinned up in a French pleat or out of sight under a chic floppy straw hat . |
| 19 | More difficult illusions require the subject to hallucinate objects or people into or out of existence with his eyes open . |
| 20 | I never know whether the death wish is a wish to get out of activity or out of existence . |
| 21 | A family may have a low income in work because of low pay , or out of work from social security benefits . |
| 22 | It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole . |
| 23 | They cut benefits to pensioners , the severely disabled , widows , the unemployed , those with industrial injuries and families with children , in or out of work . |
| 24 | Any time Thresher staff have a problem in or out of work , they can call an outside consultancy , focus . |
| 25 | In the first outbreak it was estimated that no more than one per cent of the entire rabbit population survived , and these few were either immune or out of contact with other rabbits . |
| 26 | This is an area of personal relationships which is private , into which law does not venture , whether for the instrumental reasons suggested above , or out of concern for its reputation for purity . |
| 27 | The various departments ’ relations with Parliament , with outside bodies and professions are all governed by the same consideration that the minister is in charge and that he can be attacked ( in or out of Parliament ) for anything that happens or fails to happen in his department . |
| 28 | There is no evidence that the judges at any time protested to Her Majesty 's government in or out of Parliament against the proposals to involve them directly and indirectly in the administration of the act of 1971 . |
| 29 | Or do you just screw it up , stuff it in the box up in the attic or out of way , out of sight until next September October November time when you want to fetch it out again ? |
| 30 | However a ball going soft or out of shape is covered by an entirely different Law . |