Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't need you to point out the obvious . ’ |
| 3 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 4 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 5 | With a queue of industrialized and developing countries , from Israel to Pakistan , eager to achieve the status of nuclear weapons powers , it is all too easy for them to leach out the necessary technology from ‘ peaceful ’ atomic programmes . |
| 6 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 7 | This rule will allow us to work out the optimum plan for the group . |
| 8 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 9 | This would enable us to map out the informal social structure of the ‘ heroin community ’ in a variety of geographical locations . |
| 10 | ‘ Sir Charles also likes to use the full string section , which really helps us to bring out the full range of colour and dynamic gradation , and of course , so much of the writing is richly divided , in all the parts . ’ |