Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus throughout the history of local government , units of local administration were formed to carry out administration in localities . |
| 2 | After the lecture was over , groups were formed to try out some of the techniques Luke had discussed . |
| 3 | These documents were intended to set out clearly the basis on which services would be provided to a customer , to inform him of his rights and to give him the opportunity of allowing or prohibiting certain types of transactions such as off-exchange transactions , borrowings on his behalf and illiquid investments . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Having regard to the terms of the correspondence , I am of opinion that the letters were intended to set out , and did set out , matters on which the writers had reached agreement . ’ |
| 5 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 6 | Outraged Doisneau fans were mortified to find out that Doisneau himself had taken the pictures , fulfilling one of the commercial assignments which still occupy much of his time . |
| 7 | This was offset by the fact that all the farmers had been on courses but in a family farm situation , where over half the wives were expected to carry out farm work in the case of their husbands ' sickness , some training should be beneficial . |
| 8 | Again LEAs were requested to draw up curriculum policies and schools were expected to set out their aims in writing . |
| 9 | High-sulphur content coal mining areas , such as the Mid-West , were expected to lose out in favour of lower-sulphur coal from the West Coast and abroad . |
| 10 | According to some estimates in late January , between 500,000 and 1,300,000 people were expected to come out of Iraq as refugees . |
| 11 | Judy Jones , team manager ( mental health ) in the London Borough of Brent , said community care funds for the financial year were expected to run out within three or four months . |
| 12 | Mrs McBride and the current incumbent were expected to work out a mutually agreed arrangement of hours and duties . |
| 13 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 14 | eh , the same number on four lines , but if were want to go out four people were to phone in at the one time |
| 15 | Numerous purges in the regions were designed to root out less than committed fascists , which helps to account for the high turnover of membership in the 1930s ; A.K. Chesterton in particular was notorious for the war he waged against literal social fascists , being responsible for expelling over 300 members in Stoke in 1935 who used the local headquarters as a drinking club . |
| 16 | The metal shutters on the windows and behind the doors of the four-storey grey structure were designed to keep out unnecessary callers . |
| 17 | In addition , fish ponds were deepened to find out if light penetrations was adequate to allow phytoplankton productivity to be increased . |
| 18 | No further attacks developed but five escorting destroyers of Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten 's 5th Destroyer Flotilla were detached to carry out a bombardment of Benghazi just after midnight . |
| 19 | Many were seeking to get out while they could , so many indeed that Ramsay feared that they must be seen by the blockading English ships lying off , for the July night was less dark than he could have wished . |
| 20 | Later in July it was reported that factories in some regions , facing the unaccustomed pressure to make a profit , were refusing to lend out their workers to provide the usual help in bringing in the potato and vegetable harvests . |
| 21 | We did not get a written reply , however , via our National Secretary we heard our letter had been misconstrued and we were wanting to opt out . |
| 22 | The Court ruled that , even if the agencies staff were instructed to print out what they deemed to be records , the electronic material are ‘ quantitatively different than a copy printed out in paper form and , therefore the Defendants ’ record keeping system violates ( the statute ) because it does not save all the information contained in these electronic records . ’ |
| 23 | Attempts were made to push out the burning fuel with scaffolding poles . |
| 24 | Attempts were made to put out the fire . |
| 25 | Attempts were made to root out those businessmen who had supported Hitler and to break up the industrial cartels which had provided the materials for the German war efforts . |
| 26 | In spite of the continuing scepticism and regardless of the clinical faults of the new drugs , many attempts were made to find out how and where in the brain they worked . |
| 27 | For many years these agencies operated free of any congressional oversight and , while many members of Congress clearly preferred not to know what they were doing , any attempts that were made to find out were firmly rebuffed . |
| 28 | In the late 1930s Japanese became the official language and attempts were made to wipe out the indigenous Korean culture . |
| 29 | Maybe it is time you were made to come out of your shell . ’ |
| 30 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |