Example sentences of "[vb -s] out [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he lives out all year and has a total sunblock applied to protect the sensitive areas . |
| 2 | A strip which has been missed with the herbicide stands out all season long , to the embarrassment of both spray operator and farmer . |
| 3 | Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year 's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time . |
| 4 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
| 5 | Lucker drops his camera and holds out another knife . |
| 6 | Gandhi 's emphasis on Sarvodaya , the welfare of ill , as both an expression of Truth and a means of realizing Truth bears out this point . |
| 7 | The following list of skills and abilities taken from Educational Objectives for the Study of History written in 1971 by Jeanette Coltham and John Fines bears out this point . |
| 8 | After a few quick puffs the man turns and stubs out this cigarette too , three-quarters wasted . |
| 9 | DOLPHIN SPINS OUT SEPARATE UNIT TO DEVELOP SCI BUSINESS … |
| 10 | For I believe that it is determinism that rules out moral responsibility and other things we believe in … " |
| 11 | ‘ And rules out one thing : that she fell overboard by accident . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps no one 's missing from the Irish ferry , which rules out one line of inquiry . ’ |
| 13 | However , Kuhn insists that this state of affairs does not render the concept of paradigm untenable any more than the similar situation with respect to ‘ game ’ rules out legitimate use of that concept . |
| 14 | If the new firm is able to accept instructions , it must take all proper steps to erect the " Chinese Wall " to preserve the confidentiality of the client 's affairs : the stringency and complexity of this pretty well rules out any possibility that instructions could be accepted from more than one of the clients involved . |
| 15 | Tight security at the firmly sealed jail also rules out any video recording . |
| 16 | Both need to be studied , and studied historically , politically , and critically , and that rules out any reliance upon the constitutional approach . |
| 17 | Equally , the insistence by Mr Molyneaux that there can be no distinction between the treatment of Northern Ireland and any ( highly limited and purely administrative ) devolution conceded to Scotland , when Mr Major finally ‘ takes stock ’ , rules out any power-sharing or north-south ‘ Irish dimension ’ — minimum requirements for the SDLP . |
| 18 | The defeat virtually rules out any chance of the Sunday League title , with just one win from their first five matches . |
| 19 | ‘ And certainly rules out any motive for murder . ’ |
| 20 | And the depth of his ideological commitment to maintaining Israel 's hold over the West Bank rules out any acceptance of the principle that negotiations should eventually lead to an exchange of land for peace . |
| 21 | The use of eqn ( 10.18 ) shows that this monster would only radiate 10 -30 W of gravitational wave power : this rules out any laboratory equivalent of Hertz 's experiment for the production and detection of gravitational waves . |
| 22 | Solicitors ' firms large and small have come to realise that at a time when competition is intense and growth is seen as essential in order to meet increased overheads and maintain profit levels ( let alone to increase them ) any policy which irrevocably rules out fundamental reorganisation of their practices is likely to prove short-sighted . |
| 23 | Major rules out military force in Bosnia |
| 24 | This has not prevented their use in Europe and North America , where in any case the risk of infection is confined to relatively small groups , such as medical personnel ; but it rules out widespread use where a vaccine is most needed , in the Third World . |
| 25 | Channel 4 edits out naked princess cartoons |
| 26 | The production itself carefully suppresses those aspects of Shakespeare 's play which suggest that Henry 's endeavours are not somehow the shared desires of the nation — most notably it cuts out any mention of the English traitors in Act II . |
| 27 | Cramping marks out this remedy . |
| 28 | Since he has been in Deerbolt , he has passed his GCSE 's and is now trying to get a place catering college when he gets out next year . |
| 29 | The beef is tender and full of flavour and , although the breed grows more slowly than the big continental animals , the deficit is adequately compensated for by much cheaper production costs in terms of food and housing ( it stays out all year round ) . |
| 30 | After being endlessly reassured that , ‘ it 's not the tractor , it 's how long he stays out that field ploughing , ’ we give up craving a member that could be mistaken for the Eiffel Tower . |