Example sentences of "[vb -s] out [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only known to breed in the Gulf area , where it digs out burrows in the sand and , as its name suggests , it feeds almost exclusively on crabs . |
| 2 | If so , Whiteside rules out convictions in such circumstances . |
| 3 | A phrase from the Conservative 's manifesto last year , we are the only party that understands the need for low taxation , has now returned to haunt them , for an MP in a marginal constituency this evokes the electoral ghost of George Bush , so he firmly rules out increases in income tax , but would n't mind putting V A T on newspapers and books . |
| 4 | Hurd rules out role in Bosnia airlift |
| 5 | The demand that , as a science progresses , its theories should become more and more falsifiable , and consequently have more and more content and be more and more informative , rules out modifications in theories that are designed merely to protect a theory from a threatening falsification . |
| 6 | He actually wears out suitcases in this job . |
| 7 | The investor having gone short in a security takes out insurance in the form of a purchased call whose exercise price is equal to the price at which the shares were sold . |
| 8 | The bearish money spread ( Fig. 7.9(b) ) reflects the profit and loss potential of an investor who gives a higher probability to the security price falling than rising but who takes out insurance in case of being wrong . |
| 9 | Joseph Kahl , in his attempt to measure modernism , picks out participation in the mass media as one of his key criteria of the modern . |
| 10 | Small enough to squeeze into a box 22ins square — or the minuscule engine bay of a Formula 3000 racing car , having been designed by TVR 's Al Melling primarily as a racing engine — the ‘ AJP8 ’ thumps out 350bhp in road trim and up to 130bhp more as a racer , along with class-beating torque . |
| 11 | Therefore , if a bookmaker pays out money in the mistaken belief that a certain horse has won , s.5(4) is inappropriate . |
| 12 | Excellent index sets out presentation in 4 clear areas : ( 1 ) situation ( 2 ) structures ( 3 ) functional area ( 4 ) vocabulary . |
| 13 | The last section sets out ways in which teachers can relate theory to practice in their own teaching by carrying out small-scale classroom research tasks . |
| 14 | Having arrived in New York via Cuba , the immigrant Fonstein seeks out Rose in order to express an entirely natural gratitude , but is shunned at every turn . |
| 15 | The course seeks out flaws in temperament and technique sooner rather than later . |
| 16 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 17 | In addition to being a major contractor in the British programme to identify a safe geological repository site for radioactive waste , the Group carries out research in geochemistry , hydrogeology and microbiology within European Community projects and for various international customers . |
| 18 | The department carries out research in five principal areas of Earth Science : Igneous , metamorphic and experimental petrology ; Tectonics and Earth history ; Marine and Quaternary geology , including global climatic change ; Geophysics ; Petroleum Geoscience . |