Example sentences of "[verb] out on a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We had come out on a broad dirt road .
2 The Great Hall is let out on a daily rate to companies such as Deutsche Grammophon and EMI for classical music recordings .
3 Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park .
4 How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ?
5 Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands .
6 A covering note would detail tasks which would have to be carried out on a regular basis and which agent is responsible for these tasks .
7 To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections .
8 Computer Science is a practical subject and , at Edinburgh , students are fortunate in having the opportunity to use systems ranging from single chip microprocessors to some of the world 's highest performance parallel processing systems , with much of their work being carried out on a distributed system of UNIX-based workstations .
9 Similarly , interviews with pupils are included but were not carried out on a systematic basis and the results have not been correlated with pupils ' GT4 scores .
10 I usually have some sympathy for a player who is dismissed simply for being over-aggressive , but I draw the line when this aggro is carried out on a fellow team mate .
11 A prospective cohort study [ 6 ] carried out on a general population in the west of Scotland found that mortality from all causes was higher in passive smokers than in a control group of nonsmokers , as were all causes of death related to smoking , including mortality from lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease .
12 This is despite evidence that little more than 0.1 per cent of tropical forestry is in reality carried out on a sustainable basis .
13 Prior to the meeting , the IWC 's scientific committee had said that the population of minke whales had now recovered to the point where renewed commercial hunting could be carried out on a sustainable basis .
14 Personal selling is a very expensive activity to maintain , and it may be best suited to relatively concentrated markets , such as in the UK for ceramics or steel manufacture , or those in which buying is carried out on a centralised basis .
15 As well as simple copying , assemble editing can be carried out on a stop-start basis under manual control of the machines provided that the VCR has the backspace edit facility .
16 The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs .
17 Lichen research is carried out on a world-wide collection which is particularly good on European crustose lichens .
18 Where a sanitiser can have advantages is where a particular cleaning task is carried out on a repetitive basis as for example the daily cleaning of a retail soft ice cream dispenser .
19 Stick making is still carried out on a limited scale , the Phoenix Stick Company at present occupying two floors of the main mill block .
20 As for the internal auditors ' role , ‘ they 're not expected to do a full statutory audit but a great deal of the detailed work which , carried out on a continuous basis , would greatly increase the probability of detecting fraud . ’
21 Partial water changes will be sufficient — about 15% of the tank 's volume every fortnight , provided a larger water change of about 30% is carried out on a monthly basis .
22 The audit needs to be carried out on a periodic rather than on an ad hoc basis , and , like any other rational evaluation , needs to be conducted in a systematic way .
23 The human rights issue is also a priority of the region 's animation programme , which is carried out on a voluntary basis by the officers .
24 If it was , the voting would be carried out on a unanimous basis .
25 After some initial hesitation , the Church Commissioners agreed and now the remaining repairs , principally to the stonework , can be carried out on a rolling programme over several years .
26 Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised .
27 The first group of suggestions that follow can all be carried out on a single visit to the shore or group of shores .
28 In addition , a time series test was carried out on a random sample of 254 of these issues .
29 The hazards involved in this operation , the pollution to the environment , the problem of safeguarding the plutonium , and the extremely high costs mean that reprocessing is carried out on a commercial scale by only a handful of other nuclear nations , most notably France and the Soviet Union .
30 Even here , as we have shown earlier , the evidence is overwhelmingly against the usefulness of testing , whether carried out on a national or local basis .
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