Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] out by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 2 | It is very much a system 's search mechanism as opposed to a search strategy initiated or purposefully carried out by the user . |
| 3 | I have seen beheading done too early and too suddenly — with the result that the still not perfectly united bud is literally pushed out by the sudden flood having nowhere else to go . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district . |
| 5 | This spread of interest is very much borne out by the selection of numbers given to each of the tenors where Tauber has more semi-serious and operatic numbers to sing than his tow seniors . |
| 6 | Last week , I was told about a club that closed an hour and a half early because the organisers were so freaked out by the number of collapses . |
| 7 | This is perhaps borne out by the fact that since the UK joined the EC with its current population of 320 million people , it has always operated with a net deficit on its balance of trade with its European partners . |
| 8 | Lennis had stressed the emptiness of his life in having a daughter who had little to do with him , an account apparently borne out by the daughter herself in her interview with the banker . |
| 9 | As much put out by the ticket inspector 's attitude as his demand for money , he paid and duly wrote to BR to complain saying he ‘ could see no justification in the circumstances for the excess charge . ’ |
| 10 | The nuclear industry asked why all this was necessary when monitoring was already carried out by the CEGB itself , as well as by government departments . |
| 11 | Its initial tasks , however , were to ensure that the pioneering work already carried out by the NAS&FU in organising continental branches was consolidated into indigenous unions and to develop European solidarity to a point at which common strike action would be feasible . |
| 12 | This is being used to investigate the incidence of taxation and benefits at the level of individual households , building on the work already carried out by the Central Statistical Office . |
| 13 | So far the source of consultees names is the series of recent consultation exercises already carried out by the Department and the Metro Development Group . |
| 14 | Day-to-day decision making should be assigned to a particular person if this is not carried out by the board member(s) who have overall responsibility for the policy . |
| 15 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 16 | The voice sounded faint and was soon drowned out by the rush and moan of the shells passing over . |
| 17 | Then she knew that she needed not to sneak out by the convenient back exit , but to leave through the front entrance , trusting its outrageous , ostentatious vulgarity to reassure and comfort her . |
| 18 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 19 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |
| 20 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 21 | This , as we have seen , is simply not borne out by the facts . |
| 22 | It was assumed by most American policy-makers that the Soviet Union possessed the forces to fulfil a rapid occupation of Manchuria and Korea but this was not borne out by the course of events . |
| 23 | The larger pieces show a surprising link with her drawing which is not borne out by the smaller more elaborate pieces cast in bronze . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 25 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 26 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 27 | The minister was not put out by the note of impatience in Bertha Cohen 's voice . |
| 28 | Of course , people who saw the ill-starred couple on parade in Nottingham this week were n't exactly knocked out by the body language . |
| 29 | The Blackburn manager is just knocked out by the worldly-wise maturity of the genial Geordie , still aged only 22 . |
| 30 | Those Germans not knocked out by the week-long bombardment were given time to reach their gun positions , and they poured an unremitting enfilade of lead at the doomed British soldiers . |