Example sentences of "[be] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 2 | An over-ambitious social physics , albeit statistically sophisticated , would give an oddly flat theory of social relationships precisely because unique , yet meaningful , patterns would be smoothed out under general statistical laws . |
| 3 | The main purpose of the costings for the latter years is to identify probable peaks and troughs in the overall programme , which can be smoothed out by phasing in major projects so as to avoid clashes . |
| 4 | And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court . |
| 5 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 6 | This is especially true of black women writers , who tend to be plucked out of context to lend a splash of colour to a pallid white landscape — like a single exotic flower among drab , overwatered shrubs . |
| 7 | I think we 'll get together , Peter Davis , with with the Districts on that particular point , as far as the previous point erm madam , erm then you can rest assured that er the County Surveyor will be rousted out of his dinner tonight er erm when I get back , with a view to er providing the information that you require . |
| 8 | There can be few people in football who do not think Flashman should be turfed out of Barnet at the earliest opportunity . |
| 9 | It is intolerable that Labour MPs who are also accountable to all the voters in their town should be turfed out by the block vote . |
| 10 | But if anyone else believes that all that 's consumed in the Sedgefield council chairman 's room is tea and biscuits they must be stoned out of their tiny little brains . |
| 11 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 12 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 13 | was tut-tutting that we should n't be using out of er Stansted airport , they should be jets |
| 14 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 15 | Turbo diesels should not be dismissed out of hand , but the turbocharger is a complicating factor , and a car which has not been carefully serviced may need an expensive replacement turbo . |
| 16 | Yet there are a few hints that the possibility of specific performance even of these judgments should not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 17 | The hypothesis can not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 18 | Such ideas , and lessons of history , are clearly of fundamental importance and should not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 19 | The imagination trembles at some of these ideas — will a profession 's ruling body really come clean about its members ' income ? — but no suggestion , on this subject , should be dismissed out of hand . |
| 20 | Though macrosomia can not be directly equated with morbidity , as long as maternal glycaemia during pregnancy can be shown to influence any aspect of fetal outcome the entity of gestational diabetes can not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 21 | It seems , then , that in some cases at least " exists " , or rather " actually ( or really ) exists " does have some useful work to do in a subject/predicate context and can not be dismissed out of hand as a " spurious " predicate . |
| 22 | Yet the new approach attracted too many adherents for it to be dismissed out of hand . |
| 23 | That idea can be dismissed out of hand . |
| 24 | Adam had spoken to the Danish king Swegen Estrithsson , Cnut 's nephew , and can not be dismissed out of hand , although nor can he be regarded as infallible . |
| 25 | Once he had returned the white card , a client 's name , address and phone number were Processed into a lead , which would then be given out to a dealer . |
| 26 | If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches . |
| 27 | JOHN AMBULANCE SPONSORED EVENT : A sponsorship form will be given out with every ticket and the St. John fundraisers expect all our members to take part . |
| 28 | You might arrange for pay to be given out at a different time and check whether the trains are less crowded somewhat earlier in the afternoon . |
| 29 | The hand-out can be given out at the beginning of the learning session and used as a basis for teaching . |
| 30 | The remaining land was to be given out in family units , in line with the government 's ideology of private ownership . |