Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry . |
| 2 | Thus , in addition to the basic meaning of ‘ constitution ’ — a document containing , at the very least , a code of rules setting out the allocation of functions , powers and duties among the various agencies and officers of government — there is a wider meaning of constitution , according to which every democratic state has a constitution . |
| 3 | The paper proposed for each area of the curriculum for pupils 5–14 ‘ a nationally agreed set of guidelines setting out the aims of study , the content to be covered , and the objectives to be achieved ’ . |
| 4 | SAVE began by writing to the Department of Transport setting out the importance of the park , only to be told that a large number of representations had been made in favour of the proposed route . |
| 5 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 6 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 7 | To my way of thinking , penguins are superb examples of evolution fitting out a bird to make the best use of its environment — the only potential problem being man . |
| 8 | They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine . |
| 9 | oh it , they showed you pictures of things coming out the squares |
| 10 | ( 4 ) A scheme of arrangement setting out the details of the scheme and identifying the steps mentioned in para 2.4.3 above . |
| 11 | I get stuck in a crowd of people coming out the tube and I have to stand on tiptoe so I can keep my eye on her . |
| 12 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 13 | For two days she remained at large despite a posse of pupils carrying out an inch-by-inch search of the building . |
| 14 | He said the case was a one-off , but he 's writing to a Government committee on the safety of medicines pointing out the potential dangers . |
| 15 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 16 | Sometimes customers spend a lot of time finding out the value of an item before applying . |
| 17 | You can spend an enormous amount of time checking out the possibilities for a particular audio-visual presentation only to find the organiser or speaker changes his mind . |
| 18 | It 's the fat doorman at a terribly grand hotel , dressed in the livery of an olde worlde flunkey to give foreign tourists a thrill , and blowing a little whistle , his cheeks puffed like Aeolus sending out the wind . |
| 19 | Others crouched on their haunches and kicked out their back legs behind them , like men carrying out a complex fitness programme . |
| 20 | Management suffered the brunt of the reorganisation , with ZDS stripping out a whole department of sales managers . |
| 21 | First , concepts of quality in health care are still determined largely by the professionals , with managers staking out an increasing role . |
| 22 | with maggots coming out the beak |
| 23 | Nona and Peter wandered by the river , with Peter pointing out the various features that interested him . |
| 24 | There is , however , one compulsory element : where a number of properties are insured under a block policy it will not be possible to insure some of the buildings and not others — the additional cover must be taken out on all , with landlords apportioning out the additional costs . |
| 25 | Remarkably , at that stage , 34 runners were still standing , with Willsford cutting out the running from Golden Minstrel . |
| 26 | For example taking out the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track , taking out the the M I D S , the multiple information distribution system and certain aspects of the er defensive aids , to see what impact that would have and we found that if we removed any one of those erm then we would either come down to parity against potential threat or possibly er inferiority and that was really the supporting evidence to retain the full capability . |
| 27 | Also Chris Protheroe was still in Lusaka carrying out the more routine , though no less important , procedures in the field to ensure that all necessary information was recorded before the team left . |
| 28 | Fulfilling her promise , construction began on the monastery in Greyabbey , with craftsmen from the house of Holm Cultra in Cumbria carrying out the work . |
| 29 | You then scan your image using each of the filters in turn saving out the images . |
| 30 | In a small group discussion , it would be inappropriate and wasteful of valuable opportunities for interactive learning if the participants sat in silence sorting out a considered statement which each delivered when ready . |