Example sentences of "[vb pp] out the [num] " in BNC.

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1 The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs .
2 The National Society for Clean Air who 've carried out the five million pound survey said power stations in Eastern Europe are the main cause of the problem .
3 That 's the theory … here 's the practical … first the course … they 've mapped out the 26 miles … the beauty of the route lies in the cobbled squares of ancient towns like Bhaktapur … the beast is the city … traffic and smoke is a major problem … the other unknown factor is altitude …
4 But that extraordinary colouring , the pale , pale eyes and the black hair , clearly marked out the two of them as father and son .
5 Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts .
6 Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ :
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