Example sentences of "[noun pl] spell out " in BNC.

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1 Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand .
2 Face-to-face situations provide the context , objectives spell out the desirable end and behaviours are the means .
3 Not just any DNA , but DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds .
4 Religious leaders spell out their warnings , in countless funeral services , but their words will be wasted without a response from the politicians .
5 The letters spell out a plan for making RNA replicase : for making machines that make more copies of the very same RNA plans , that make more machines that make more copies of the plans , that make more …
6 Unusually , Abramson and his colleagues spell out the potential preventive implications of their ideas .
7 The detailed way in which the 1977 Protocols spell out the principle of discrimination in the use of force and protection of the civilian population makes it plain that there are no circumstances in which nuclear weapons could actually be used without breaching this fundamental principle .
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