Example sentences of "[vb pp] out on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 2 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 3 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 4 | It 's the first time in his career he has n't come out on top . |
| 5 | He has survived bankruptcy , libel , and having to resign as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , and he 's still come out on top . |
| 6 | Brenda Lambert , headteacher at South Wellfield First School , Whitley Bay , Tyne and Wear , said : ‘ We made up some of the recipes and John Major 's has come out on top . |
| 7 | So far I 've come out on top , but one day the damn thing will expire just to spite me . ’ |
| 8 | The leading two mile chasers had clashed on six previous occasions and each time Katabatic had come out on top . |
| 9 | If the play were left at that , then , Brutus would have come out on top , but since Mark Antony was left to talk , his extremely clever speech then persuaded the crowd into thinking his way , as we shall see now . |
| 10 | And er I know when I had experience in the past , last New Year , the District Council 's come out on behalf of the residents . |
| 11 | BASEBALL BAT BRUTE SPACED out on drink and drugs , Paul used the bat pictured above to bludgeon John to death |
| 12 | any accident loss damage or liability caused sustained or incurred while any Caravan described in the Schedule is let out on hire by the Policyholder being used otherwise than for social domestic and pleasure purposes |
| 13 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 14 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 15 | We 've got ten copies to give away for ten correct answers ( picked out on Dec 17 ) to the following question : who is Robbins ' wife ? a Geena Davis . |
| 16 | The new car was rolled out on March 31 1982 in time for the retirement of its designer , Chief Engineer Stuart Pillar . |
| 17 | The Sri Lankan army carried out on Sept. 2-25 a further successful offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in the northern jungle area around Mullaittivu [ see p. 38392 for major government victory at Elephant Pass in August ] , admitting a death toll of only 73 soldiers but claiming to have killed over 600 guerrillas . |
| 18 | Surgery carried out on Sept. 11 revealed that he had prostate cancer , but when he left hospital on Sept. 16 he declared that he saw no reason to retire early . |
| 19 | A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel . |
| 20 | The report includes details of work carried out on milk from two farms near Bolsover , Derbyshire , which was found to contain high levels of dioxins ( Chem . |
| 21 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 22 | Several trial runs were carried out on Anerley Hill , to test the special anti-run-back brakes , with which they were fitted , using trolleybus No. 65 , which was purposely dewired several times on the hill to make sure that the brake really worked and for the benefit of the press . |
| 23 | Tests carried out on mice have been encouraging . |
| 24 | Tests have already been carried out on mice in Cambridge . |
| 25 | Application development can be carried out on MS-DOS personal computers , the IBM RS/6000 , and DEC , Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems workstations . |
| 26 | Today Mark joined his colleagues for a training session in Armagh during which fitness tests were carried out on Mark and John Grimley , Ciaran McGurk and Gerard Houlahan . |
| 27 | Although similar requisitions were carried out on treasures in museums , it did seem that the state had finally decided to test the power of the Orthodox Church on a socially explosive question . |
| 28 | In 1942 , 1943 and 1944 surveys were carried out on camp school children , and to the Board 's amazement they indicated that such children actually experienced retarded growth rates . |
| 29 | Similar studies have been carried out on axes from the British Isles and , whilst the same alloys were used , the time scale of their introduction and use was quite different . |
| 30 | His abrupt departure from positions of influence in Senegalese politics had been signalled in an extensive Cabinet reshuffle carried out on March 27 , when he was dropped from the post of Secretary-General to the Presidency and Minister of State , a post he had held since January 1981 . |