Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a number of nurseries are selling plants derived from these strains and the lustrous , almost eyeless Cowichans are worth looking out for . |
| 2 | It is interesting to note that some Muslim schools are considering opting out of local authority control and offering separate provision . |
| 3 | It may be worth pointing out to new customers who prove reluctant to pay on time that the keenly competitive rates being charged on the haulage contract can only be maintained if customers settle promptly . |
| 4 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 5 | In a way , it 's ended up being a good test to measure potentially good relationships against bad ones , because say I went out with someone and at a party they said , ‘ Sit on me lap , darling ’ , and then they said , ‘ Oh God , you 've only got one leg ’ — well , I 'd know they would n't be worth going out with ! |
| 6 | Not wearing a shellsuit at Center Parcs would be like running out on the pitch at Wembley in a dinner jacket . |
| 7 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 8 | See if it 's worth shelling out for ( £3.99 cassette , £5.99 disk ) in the lettuce-chewing ZZAP ! review next ish ! |
| 9 | Will the Secretary of State accept that there are those of us who have never made the point that trust status is about opting out of the national health service , but have said that it is about local accountability and the views of local people ? |
| 10 | This piece is about coming out in Dublin in the early seventies . |
| 11 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , would have included in the present s14(2) of SGA 1979 and its equivalent provisions under SOGIT 1973 ( as substituted by Sched 4 to CCA 1974 ) and the SGSA 1982 , the following provision which is worth setting out in full since it received Government approval and is likely to be re-introduced in the near future : ( 2A ) For the purposes of this Act , goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory , taking account of any description of the goods , the price ( if relevant ) and all the other relevant circumstances . |
| 12 | It is worth pointing out to the group that the first session is always the most anxiety-provoking , after which future sessions become progressively easier . |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 14 | It is worth pointing out in this connection that the two propositions above are dubious . |
| 15 | This is why it is worth finding out in advance what type of herb it is . |
| 16 | ‘ Ghosts ’ at least demonstrates that the music does n't have to have the speed of a cocaine-snorting cheetah to create the energy and is worth checking out for this alone . |
| 17 | It requires a lot of hard talking to go abroad to film these days : the main justification is for filming out of season — this is sometimes essential , but can often be avoided by good planning . |
| 18 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 19 | A FREIGHT firm is considering pulling out of Stansted Airport and using East Midlands Airport , at Castle Donington , instead . |
| 20 | The risk in this course of action is of missing out on a rally if the City is comfortable with the election result . |
| 21 | Later , he would complain irritably about his silver-spooned Tory colleagues : ‘ These people have no idea what is like to run out of money at the end of the week . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ While our competitors play only ten records an hour we can play at least 14 , and that 's without losing out on speech areas like news , interviews and DJ input . ’ |
| 23 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 24 | When Dannii ( as she likes to be known ) was seven she first learned what it was like to lose out to the star quality of her sister . |
| 25 | This tip apparently came in pretty handy when a bus she was on coming out of Dar es Salaam was robbed . |