Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |
| 2 | Vonadk reported on Jan. 8 that resistance fighters had carried out a grenade attack in Phnom Penh on Jan. 6 , killing a number of " traitorous Vietnamese puppets and lackeys " . |
| 3 | At the Penta the porters had worked out a neat scam with the airline crews who regularly booked into the hotel . |
| 4 | Although the companies surveyed paid out a total of £64.021m in audit fees to 1,674 different auditing firms , £36.893m of it ( 57.63% ) went to the top 12 , which audit 28.66% of them . |
| 5 | The FMLN denied claims that its urban commandos had carried out the murder . |
| 6 | He said engineers had carried out an inspection of the plane — with advice from British Aerospace — and had found no damage . |
| 7 | The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last , and were still bringing in letters . |
| 8 | ‘ Companies have taken out a tier of management to save money , appointing financial controllers as directors designate , ’ warns Mr Austin . |
| 9 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 10 | A Georgian parliamentary commission which was established to investigate the incident later concluded that the interior troops had carried out a ‘ punitive action — a planned mass massacre , committed with especial cruelty ’ . |
| 11 | AMID a confusion of conflicting reports , Russia yesterday denied one of its planes had carried out a raid that killed one man and wounded eight people in Sukhumi , capital of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia . |
| 12 | The torches beam picked out a notice telling of the Covenanters who had been imprisoned there three hundred and fifty years before and another commemorating the once famous Scots buried under the damp , heavy earth . |
| 13 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 14 | A number of studies have brought out the bargaining strength of trade unions during the period of near full employment [ Brown , 1981 ] , which enabled them to reinforce long-established work practices which were an incubus on British industry in the form of overmanning . |
| 15 | More recently , certain United States government figures have ruled out a settlement which would leave the PDPA as the ‘ backbone of the Kabul Government ’ and they have indicated the unacceptability of the continuation of a ‘ communist front government ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 16 | The traffic lights have gone out the middle . |
| 17 | It is one of Marx 's greatest contributions to philosophy and the social sciences to have pointed out the systematic relationship between knowledge and historical and social processes . |
| 18 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 19 | Progress was slow , but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude : the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker , John Harrison , had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor . |
| 20 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 21 | Thrifty villagers had sorted out the best for their own uses , present or future . |
| 22 | The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez — FPMR ) said that one of its former members had carried out the killing , and 13 people were subsequently arrested . |
| 23 | Councillors have thrown out a motion calling for a ban on foxhunting on all council owned land . |
| 24 | Theologically-minded critics have pointed out the Christian precedents to Wordsworth 's view of Nature . |
| 25 | While the Chicago School certainly addressed the expressive order in problematic ways , their critics have thrown out the baby with the bathwater ; misinterpreting or misunderstanding what these sociologists were attempting . |
| 26 | The scandals have brought out a rash of new political movements , all of which want Tokyo 's dominance curbed . |
| 27 | Many times , Labour Members have pointed out the iniquities of the standard spending assessment , which is based on irrelevant data more than 10 years old . |
| 28 | The result would be a deterioration of services in all the ways that my Hon. Friends have pointed out the cleanliness of the buses , the regularity of services and the kind of facilities that are made available to the unemployed , women , the elderly and the disabled . |
| 29 | A spokesperson commented that " more than 700 scientists have sent out a clarion call for action , and the USA was the only wealthy country not to make tangible promises " . |
| 30 | Police had staked out the site in a plan code-named Operation Yogurt . |