Example sentences of "[verb] out at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drake has chestnut head with distinctive broad-bordered green stripe , and at rest can be picked out at a distance by horizontal white line above wing and buffish yellow patch behind tail coverts . |
| 2 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 3 | Computer operator Wightman , based in Marylebone , was picked out at an identity parade . |
| 4 | White , 46 , who helped out at a holiday for the disabled near Farnham , Surrey , fondled the girls — dressed as a bunny and a baby — following the end-of-camp party . |
| 5 | Reductions in support levels should be carried out at a pace that gives efficient farmers time to adjust and diversify . |
| 6 | A survey carried out at a school in Bradford , Yorks , revealed that 3.6 per cent of Asian girls aged 14 to 16 were bulimic compared to just 0.6 per cent of white girls . |
| 7 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 8 | In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more . |
| 9 | Nothing in the scheme required that the training be carried out at a college — far from it — but endorsement of the scheme by local colleges is an important feature . |
| 10 | AN analysis of organised crime by leading experts on Triads , the Mafia and Hell 's Angels is to be carried out at a conference next week . |
| 11 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 12 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 13 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 14 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 15 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 16 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 17 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 18 | Clients unable to break even , let alone to sell out at a profit , found themselves locked in . |
| 19 | The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings , leading onto the moor itself . |
| 20 | The skunk has a pair of these glands and not only can it vary the strength of each jet according to the side from which you approach but it is even able to twist the nozzle of the gland so that the spray shoots out at an angle . |
| 21 | Er , I think it came out at a Trial Audit and we should have a job specification , even if it 's a generic job specification for every member of staff . |
| 22 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 23 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 24 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 25 | Bloomsbury House sent them to help out at a hostel . |
| 26 | They need only look out at a sheep . |
| 27 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 28 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 29 | Obviously , when parents are killed a whole generation is wiped out at a stroke . |
| 30 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |