Example sentences of "[verb] out by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 2 | Three 's a crowd : Alison Ramsay ( Western Klick Photopoint ) is squeezed out by two Hyndland players at Peffermill yesterday |
| 3 | They say reading and writing tuition is being squeezed out by other subjects . |
| 4 | But she added that the problems would be sorted out by next week . |
| 5 | These functions were previously carried out by regional water boards and local drainage authorities . |
| 6 | A large proportion of car crime is carried out by young males between the ages of 12 and 22 . |
| 7 | More people with incontinence seem to be consulting their doctors about it than has been found in previous studies , but the procedures carried out by general practitioners still seem to be suboptimal . |
| 8 | Anonymous telephone calls claimed the attack had been carried out by various groups , including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah , in revenge for Israel 's assassination of the Hezbollah secretary-general Sheikh Abbas Musawi in February [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 9 | Formative evaluation was carried out by psychometric methods directed towards both process and product . |
| 10 | An audit may also take the form of an investigation of the internal systems of control ( carried out by internal auditors , who are employed by an organization ) . |
| 11 | Officials of the UN Protection Force , Unprofor , said earlier that the airlift would be carried out by six helicopters which could each make six trips a day , carrying six stretchers and four other wounded people . |
| 12 | It appeared that the attack had been carried out by extremist forces not under the control of JNA commanders . |
| 13 | He maintains that foreign exchange intervention and management of the Exchange Equalisation Account could be carried out by private institutions , as could the banking role , and monetary policies designed by the Treasury could be implemented by a major commercial bank for a fee . |
| 14 | School cleaning in Lincolnshire is already carried out by private contractors . |
| 15 | Over recent years track repair was carried out by private contractors . |
| 16 | Because disposal of industrial waste is carried out by private enterprise with the sole interest of making a profit , the temptation to dodge intricate and often expensive safety precautions is evident . |
| 17 | The committee takes the view that government research projects carried out by private industry have a better chance of leading to commercial rewards in terms of new products and processes . |
| 18 | Stories brought back from gynaecological examinations and procedures carried out by male doctors are at best disturbing , at worst horrifying . |
| 19 | ‘ We were a little complacent so we had a fundamental audit carried out by external people . |
| 20 | Zooming is carried out by repeating pixel values , so that zooming by a factor of four implies that each pixel value in the memory bank or banks is repeated four times , and each line of the image is also repeated four times . |
| 21 | More aggressive marketing was carried out by door-to-door canvassers in some Boards , and promotional advertising also increased as the supply situation got easier . |
| 22 | A savings and investment survey carried out by Financial Research Services ( FRS ) between October 1991 and March 1992 shows that approximately 60% of Tessas are opened by people aged over 45 . |
| 23 | I have managed to obtain a copy of a survey carried out by final year students from Manchester Polytechnic in 1984 . |
| 24 | Piecemeal drainage and reclamation in the Cambridgeshire fens , carried out by Saxon farmers around Wisbech and Elm , have been traced through the detective work of archaeologists , using aerial photography and careful analysis of the evidence on the ground . |
| 25 | It was mentioned earlier that trainee advice workers do sometimes observe interviews carried out by experienced advisers . |
| 26 | A straw poll carried out by one objector in the centre of Pontypool had shown 83 per cent against Hinkley C. |
| 27 | One GRIST coordinator , whilst pointing to the need to develop a more sophisticated understanding in teachers ' responses to their INSET needs , exemplified the difficulties of arts education by quoting a survey carried out by one LEA into teachers ' views of their own INSET needs . |
| 28 | The man behind the remodelling was the architect Josef Mocker and the work was carried out by official artists such as Čermák , František Sequens and Antonín Lhota . |
| 29 | In the Tottenham system , which is bibliographically based , administrative duties are separated from bibliographical duties and carried out by non-professional staff from an administrative division . |
| 30 | We do not want this work to be carried out by outside contractors . |