Example sentences of "[to-vb] out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m .
2 By the same token we are free to pull out of Europe whenever we wish , simply by repealing the EC Act .
3 De Lorenzo 's move follows a decision by his Liberal party to retract earlier threats to pull out of government unless Amato gave him public support .
4 On 22 October 1980 Gabriel Ferrucci , president of Raybestos Manhattan 's international division , flew into Cork to appear at a joint press conference with IDA at which the company announced its intention to pull out of Ireland .
5 COLIN KEITH , a hero of last year 's victory , has been forced to pull out of Scotland 's team for the defence of the European Championships in Aix-en-Provence from 28 April-1 May .
6 As bookings sank by 40% , Airtours had to pull out of resorts such as Cyprus and Tunisia .
7 CONSUMER confidence and spending were improving ahead of the decision by John Major to call an election , suggesting that the economy might have started to pull out of recession but for worries about the election outcome .
8 The economy will begin to pull out of recession in the second quarter .
9 Lynn Reaser , the chief economist at First Interstate , expects northern and central California to pull out of recession later this year , but southern California to lag behind .
10 Yesterday he was offered the chance to pull out of part of it and go home because of his domestic troubles .
11 The millionaire band have been forced to pull out of dates in Toronto , Denver and San Diego after Metallica 's James Hetfield burnt his arm .
12 ENGLISH China Clays today announced plans to pull out of construction materials as it unveiled a £202.3m US acquisition .
13 ENGLISH China Clays today announced plans to pull out of construction materials as it unveiled a £202.3m US acquisition .
14 In fact , she was still sufficiently under the weather the following week to have to pull out of England 's Intermediate Championship which was won , at Warrington , by Lora Fairclough .
15 Without the spring trimming there would be no pressure required to change speeds or to pull out of dives , and the controls would be very light indeed .
16 Nor are the Free Democrats likely to pull out of Mr Kohl 's government now , though some of them hope the chance will come to join the Social Democrats in government again after the next general election in 1994 .
17 Jones , 20 , will have to pull out of Graham Taylor 's England squad for next Wednesday 's friendly in Spain .
18 The 29-year-old Widnes maestro was forced to pull out of Great Britain 's tour of Australasia in the summer because of a persistent groin strain and said : ‘ I feel the injury can only get worse over the next couple of months . ’ .
19 But in 1963 the Salvation Army decided to pull out of Chipping Norton .
20 It also made a £26 million exceptional write-off , after its decision to pull out of property development and concentrate on running the portfolio .
21 Soviet Foreign Minister , Edoard Sheverdnaze says the United Nations could sanction military force if Iraq refuses to pull out of Kuwait .
22 Canada announced on Dec. 11 that it would begin withdrawing on June 15 , 1993 , its contingent of 575 troops serving with the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP — which had had a Canadian element since its establishment in 1964 ) ; the 341-member Danish contingent began to pull out on Dec. 16 .
23 ‘ If we can force them to pull out through lack of money then that is their excuse , but we do n't care as long as they go somewhere else . ’
24 Pods can also warp , allowing the batteries to slip out of contact , and the contacts themselves are often quite small .
25 When his mother died it was as though his youth began to slip out of sight .
26 By early November , the Protestant lords had been forced to slip out of Edinburgh , leaving the Catholics in the ascendant and the Mass restored .
27 Although one of the earliest questions put to him in England concerned this category of ‘ the West ’ , in the subsequent fervour that accompanied the transformation of Derrida 's work into the method of deconstruction , this problem tended to slip out of view .
28 I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent .
29 " Other candidates tend to write out a plan which is lengthy in the extreme , only to write out in sentence form the plan as an answer . "
30 You see , I could do any sum in my head that Rebecca Salmon had to write out in longhand ; it used to drive her potty .
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