Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] out for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to subscribe , send a cheque for £35 , made payable to or look out for generous discounts in this issue of the magazine . |
| 2 | The fact that , for various reasons , Crosland opposed suggested ‘ transbinary ’ mergers — including Lancaster and the University of Warwick , Brighton and the University of Sussex — strengthened the feeling that the new public sector was being protected or singled out for special development . |
| 3 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 4 | Do you think that there is even a sort of ‘ them and us ’ attitude , a feeling that the arts world is an ever open maw that cries out for endless sums of money and that the proper business of government is to resist ? |
| 5 | But these murders were crafted in the human soul and decided upon by the human mind even if carried out for malicious , devilish purposes . |
| 6 | Kaysen has pointed out that : ‘ [ d ] ecisions as to the technical areas which will be systematically explored by research and development divisions and decisions as to what scientific and technical novelties will be translated into new products and processes and tried out for economic viability have very deep effects . |
| 7 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 8 | This refers to concentrating on and looking out for specific details in the world around you . |
| 9 | Then in that well-known Jewish intonation , with the words rising and lowering , and drawn out for full emphasis , he continued : ‘ If I vas a younger man I vould trow my visky at you , b-u-t dat vould be a vaste of good visky . |
| 10 | A medical model has a strict routine , whereas a social work model allows for more individual autonomy and choice in matters such as times of getting up , going to bed , and going out for independent activities , which might conflict with staff shifts and rotas . |
| 11 | Once you have selected a possible field , move towards it , checking its size , slope and colour , and look out for possible wires on the approach . |
| 12 | If you have a moisture meter , test the corners and centre of each wall just above the skirting board ; otherwise tap the plaster , feel with a dry hand for damp and coldness , and look out for loose wallpaper or flaking emulsion paint . |
| 13 | Instructors and senior pilots have a big responsibility to pass on their experience and knowledge and to look out for poor airmanship and flying techniques in others which could lead to mishaps in the future . |
| 14 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 15 | If I have a problem then I can take it elsewhere and find out for sure . |
| 16 | It was also important for the party faithful , the little people who stuff envelopes and turn out for pointless committee meetings in drafty rooms above pubs . |
| 17 | But it would be ala I think people would be alarmed if turn out for central government dropped to forty percent . |
| 18 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 19 | The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons described docking as ‘ an unjustified mutilation ’ unless carried out for medical reasons . |
| 20 | But look out for hidden extras : most operators will charge a preparation fee of around £30 for airport transfers and installation of toilet chemicals and a starter tank of propane gas . |
| 21 | The delegates added a clause saying : ‘ While watching out for Rightist deviations , we must guard mainly against Leftist deviations . ’ |
| 22 | It has proved particularly useful for the management of high risk patients such as the medically unfit , frail and elderly in whom cholecystectomy is associated with mortality rates of 10% , or higher when carried out for acute complications . |
| 23 | ( By the ‘ original pattern ’ I mean the pattern as designed for single bed knitting , not as punched out for double jacquard ; the double jacquard card is of course moving on at every row . ) |
| 24 | When it comes to plants , micro-organisms and tissue culture systems , the remedy picture as worked out for human patients is wholly inappropriate , and experiments have to be conducted on the basis of trial and error to see if particular remedies have an effect on particular plants or micro-organisms . |