Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] out a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce Critchley and David Sheehan gave the amateurs some hope when they ran out as comfortable 5 & 3 winners over Ken Bousfield and Geoff Hunt , while Warren Humphreys and Michael Lunt fought out a halved match with Peter Butler and Peter Mills but elsewhere there were wins for Alliss and Hunt ( 4 & 3 ) , Dawson and Platts ( 4 & 3 ) , Clark and Guy Hunt ( 1 hole ) and Wood and Garner ( 3 & 2 ) . |
| 2 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 3 | provide an opportunity to carry out a few simple tests ( such as checking your blood pressure ) : |
| 4 | In 1984 the Anglian Water Authority applied for permission to carry out a land-drainage scheme on the Stour between Stratford St Mary and Flatford Mill , with the purpose of converting the riverside pasture to oil-seed rape . |
| 5 | It also feared that a coalition with the anti-fascist forces might create similar problems to those which the Labour government of 1929–3 I faced when relying upon Liberal support to carry out a legislative programme . |
| 6 | If I signed a contract to carry out a complete refurbishment of the interior of your house I have an obligation to fulfil that contract . |
| 7 | In tide free waters like the Mediterranean we do n't have the same problem but we still need to consult a chart to find out a suitable location for sailing . |
| 8 | From it , Kirov drew out a slim sheaf of black and white photographs of the young pilot , and a single sheet of personal notes which he had compiled from their conversations . |
| 9 | The bus driver drew out a Saturday-night special and shot the travelling salesman . |
| 10 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 11 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 12 | In his office an anxious Herr Nordern gouged out a few marks from unenthusiastic colleagues for a wreath for Steinmark 's funeral . |
| 13 | Todor ( 1980 ) predicted that this would hold true for other tasks mediated by the language hemisphere and he therefore required his subjects to carry out a sequential motor task . |
| 14 | Therefore , it was possible for subjects to carry out a certain amount of integration of information even when they did not know the theme of the passage . |
| 15 | Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ? |
| 16 | The Canaries title rivals Manchester United and Aston Villa fought out a thrilling 1–1 draw at Old Trafford yesterday . |
| 17 | A manager can order an employee to carry out a specific task . |
| 18 | IPSWICH Town 's great rivals Norwich and Saturday 's FA Cup quarter-finals opponents Arsenal fought out a 1–1 draw at Carrow Road last night . |
| 19 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 20 | However , at a session of the Komsomol 's 21st congress on April 16 CPSU central committee ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev read out a central committee resolution which called for the expulsion from the CPSU of Democratic Platform leaders , albeit not those rank-and-file communists whom they had " led astray " . |
| 21 | Mr Lawson is right to ask the nuclear industry to spell out a new R&D effort . |
| 22 | Loc let out a little moan of anguish . |
| 23 | When she finished David let out a low whistle . |
| 24 | Management suffered the brunt of the reorganisation , with ZDS stripping out a whole department of sales managers . |
| 25 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 26 | Instead of answering his own question , Rafiq let out a high-pitched wail , which was taken up by the rest of the men . |
| 27 | There was a general gasp and Todger let out a nervous shriek of laughter that sounded horribly like mockery . |
| 28 | Other resorts are dedicated to the more experienced sailors , with strong winds and unrivalled opportunities to try out a wide range of quality boards and sails . |
| 29 | It was social laughter , an attempt to hammer out a common weapon against despair . |
| 30 | In such a case , the freight forwarder fills out a proprietary or neutral air waybill form , which bears the issuing airline 's identification , and inserts the number of the air waybill of the first airline to fly the goods ( often referred to as the ‘ master ’ air waybill ) . |