Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] out " in BNC.

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1 Throughout pregnancy I shall practise crouching on the dusty Axminster in my faded Laura Ashley smock while thinking of opening out like a flower .
2 There were parties , but there was also a good deal of hanging out and late night discussion .
3 It was all going to take a good deal of sorting out .
4 If not can we accept the recommendation of read out four one etcetera , all agreed ?
5 She accused the President of carrying out a " constitutional coup d'etat " , hinting that he was party to a conspiracy involving sections of the Army , especially military intelligence .
6 Mr Stringer , a most gracious loser despite experiencing the disappointment of missing out at the penultimate stage for the second time in three years , asked : ‘ What more do you have to do to prove yourself . ’
7 LADY Victoria 's John Armstrong will be attempting to overcome the disappointment of missing out on a record sixth title at last weeks Trinity Regatta next weekend .
8 Then there is a hiatus in the profile , with the period 5500 — 2000 B.P. missing , possibly as a result of drying out ( Walker , 1983 ) or , more likely , as a result of prehistoric peat-cutting before 2000 B.P. ( Birks , 1987 ; Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) .
9 However , opposition from Labour local authorities to privatisation measures , in principle , has been coupled , in practice , with a fear that job losses and a decline in the standard of services will occur as a result of contracting out .
10 The heads of the spears are usually slightly lozenge-sectioned , as a result of beating out the edges , and the socket , normally split on one side , was riveted to the top of the shaft .
11 Thus it is possible that , as a result of letting out contracts for individual services possibly to different suppliers , the aggregate cost of the individual contracts ( each of which would have to be independently viable ) will exceed the combined cost of the original integrated services .
12 All that the legislation provided for was that any loss incurred by the local authorities , as a result of carrying out the regulations , would fall as a charge upon the Exchequer .
13 He declared on television that " Poland 's painful but necessary programme of getting out of economic catastrophe can only be realized with the understanding of the majority of the nation " and that " the country had made its choice " .
14 As a wipeout specialist myself , I could see him being torn apart by the turbulence , I could feel his bursting lungs and taste the fear of blacking out .
15 But I live in fear of calling out the rescue team for a solitary figure glimpsed high on a darkening summit , only to find it 's Hamish McInnes nipping back up to fetch a dropped mitten .
16 My enjoyment was only tempered by my fear of pumping out .
17 The race , and the championship , were won at Monza , but not without difficulty due to Emerson 's fear of running out of fuel , which he conserved with characteristic prudence .
18 Bevan suggests that the growth of conglomerates was further facilitated by a number of other factors : the perceived need by Banks to offer a full range of financial services to customers for fear of losing out to competitors ; established international connections ; and pre-existing strong links with the securities business .
19 The fear of finding out there was something awful wrong was like torture .
20 The attack left them with a fear of going out at night .
21 GRAEME SOUNESS may yet realise his lifelong ambition of leading out an FA Cup Final team despite entering hospital yesterday for a triple by-pass heart operation which will keep him away from Anfield until the start of next season .
22 Arts Council officers are understood to be considering changing the practice of handing out separate information about the arts to the different political party conferences .
23 In replacing horses and men by machines , the practice of carrying out agricultural production in sequential steps is not disturbed , as it is in the changeover from handicraft to mechanized manufacture in industry .
24 From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines .
25 ‘ I have no intention of wiping out the WPBSA or of setting up an alternative governing body , ’ Hearn said .
26 That they do not know what you seek as well as your intention of rooting out any trace of an ancient order .
27 Back at base , Stirling had every intention of staying out in the desert and carrying on his raiding operations .
28 She paints hearts in lots of different colours and says she has no intention of branching out into other organs of the body .
29 Vic is quite sure she has no intention of carrying out his instructions .
30 Another worry is that the existence of guaranteed compensation will encourage some farmers to apply for grants for operations that they have no real intention of carrying out , simply in order to become eligible for compensation .
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