Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selecting the right personnel to carry out the PR function . |
| 2 | Eachuinn Odhar closed his watery eyes to shut out the din , smiling dimly . |
| 3 | In current practice , individual competition decisions thus contain very long and detailed preambles setting out the reasons for the operative part which is , by comparison , quite short . |
| 4 | In each class at least four methods were used by different pupils to work out the answer to this item . |
| 5 | Scottish police carrying out the criminal investigation on Lockerbie had earlier been authorized to interview the suspect , named as Mohamed Abu Talb , who had worked under various identities for Palestinian groups in Egypt and Lebanon , but his lawyers refused to agree to interrogation procedures . |
| 6 | He ran , faster and faster , towards the sound of her voice , until the noise of the cricket game faded and the familiar world of traffic and aeroplanes and reassuring English faces crowded out the thought that had been started by Rafiq . |
| 7 | At one extreme one may find a written contract containing many detailed clauses setting out the terms of the contract . |
| 8 | BBC-1 bosses , inflicting this on our screens in the new Good Morning show , should be shown being force-fed with porridge as so-called celebrities read out the honeyed words . |
| 9 | Comparing the average profiles brings out the stark contrast in the slopes of the two curves after the age of 30 which is partially explained by career interruption at marriage . |
| 10 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |
| 11 | Through the network of INSET courses , inspectors , advisory teachers and personal contacts hunt out the names of schools where outstanding work is taking place or schools that have a reputation for being generally good . |
| 12 | The Justice Department has similar Guidelines setting out the situations in which vertical restraints are likely to attract attention from the authorities . |
| 13 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 14 | Small companies combined to survive until they became vast conglomerates squeezing out the smaller shops . |
| 15 | ‘ Sixthly , we have been sent here to find the Grail and Excalibur — though there 's fat chance of that — as well as to assist our two dark shadows to root out the activities of these Templars . |
| 16 | Use option 1.3.2 — Read/Enter Individual Modules to read out the modules which are available . |
| 17 | One of the mothers said she felt quite sorry for the police officers involved and was tempted to offer them warm drinks to keep out the cold ! |
| 18 | They send in advance troops to scout out the dangers then bathe them in the glare from TV arc lamps . |
| 19 | Today we use polarised sunglasses to cut out the dazzle of polarised light reflected from water and other bright surfaces . |
| 20 | It 's up to the organic farmers to sort out the inconsistent supply complaint . |
| 21 | The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach . |
| 22 | It seems quite likely , since the ancient inhabitants of Crete and other Mediterranean islands wiped out the indigenous populations of elephants , pygmy hippos , giant dormice , and owls , for no better reason than that they needed to eat . |
| 23 | The man who wishes to move quickly through a dense forest towards a house in the middle ( in the absence of a well-trodden path ) takes advantage of simple maps and surrounding hills to spy out the quickest route . |
| 24 | Even in death he is willing to work at the vine ( the biblical symbol of the Chosen People ) , suggesting in ‘ Credo ’ that the work , however unlikely it appears , is going on ; ‘ the holy promised land ’ is being peopled : ‘ the feet of fierce or humble priests trample out the green ’ ; he among them , despite putative evidence to the contrary . |
| 25 | This really is not as difficult as it sounds as the strong lights black out the background and the cameras are surprisingly easy to ignore . |
| 26 | Detectives from Thames Valley CID , joined with the force 's burglary , fraud and drugs squads and uniformed officers to carry out the raids . |
| 27 | Many people also complain that our present hierarchies bring out the nastier aspects of human behavior , like greed , insensitivity , careerism and self-importance . |
| 28 | To count the nuclei of TE and ICM in late blastocysts carry out the following procedure . |
| 29 | It was the prospect of finding gold that induced these excited men to make such frantic efforts to open out the barrow ’ . |
| 30 | But some incidents in his later career suggest that he was inclined to act first and let his legal advisers sort out the formalities later . |