Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] out the " in BNC.

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1 MR MAJOR took full advantage last night of his election mandate to carry out the most extensive Government reshuffle since the Conservatives came to power 13 years ago .
2 Instead there is the now familiar resort to notoriously slippery and unreliable lifestyle and consumption indices to trace out the contours of projected readerships .
3 He claims that none of the release sites have been sufficiently far from the home loft to rule out the use of such cues , except in a few cases , such as trans-Atlantic displacement , and in these the evidence of homing is very weak .
4 These can actually be a very good source of low cost resistors , capacitors , diodes , etc. , but only if you know what you are doing , and you have the necessary test equipment to sort out the good components from the ‘ duds ’ .
5 One really dismal day when the sky was totally covered by a dense grey blanket of cloud , the OC sent up one of the Mosquito pilots to find out the cloud depth .
6 In fact , Mr Brown , who lectures in engineering at Longlands College , Middlesbrough , wore a crash helmet to keep out the cold and the noise of the 990cc Matchless motorbike engine while his companion wore a Biggles-type helmet with ear muffs .
7 I myself thought that the matter was one on which no degrees of murder could be properly invented and was very loath to move the clause , but I was the Attorney-General at the time and it was my duty as Chief Law Officer to carry out the decision of the Cabinet .
8 Sick and tired of their ‘ wild ’ reputation , it seems THE QUIREBOYS have formed a vigilante group to stamp out the more unseemly aspects of boorish male behaviour .
9 Sick and tired of their ‘ wild ’ reputation , it seems THE QUIREBOYS have formed a vigilante group to stamp out the more unseemly aspects of boorish male behaviour .
10 Incidentally , it enables the Census Dissemination Unit to monitor use of the data easily , both by counting the number of users currently registered and by using the project accounting package VMACCOUNT to find out the amount of CPU time which has been used and by whom .
11 The co-option of an industrialist or businessman may be a statement about school being a place for training the future work force or just an attempt to involve someone with business acumen to sort out the LMS accounts .
12 Building on previous modelling work on land allocation for afforestation on upland farms and on the conservation value of farmland in Devon , the research aims to develop a computerised model of lowland farming situations to test out the likely impact of various economic incentives and technical possibilities for farm forestry .
13 Primarily , it will be for the British Transport police to carry out the tests .
14 First , there had to be a major subversive or espionage activity that was likely to injure the national interest , and secondly the material likely to be obtained by the interception had to be of direct use in compiling the information necessary for the security services to carry out the tasks laid upon them by the state .
15 ‘ There is nothing like the Sunday trading issue to bring out the worst in retailers , ’ it said .
16 All vents are covered with mesh netting to keep out the dreaded mossies and other bugs .
17 Generally , it will make sense to use whatever information is available to develop an interpretation — use both mental model and representation of surface form to work out the meaning of both deep and surface anaphors .
18 Could I make an appointment to see her at the Education Office to sort out the dinner money debts once and for all — hopefully .
19 A contract was then issued to Social and Community Planning Research to carry out the Time Budget Survey and to deposit the data in the ESRC Data Archive for general use .
20 Salad , Four Bean p105 Salade Niçoise p76 Salami p9/ A group of air-dried sausages made from raw , cured meats and eaten very thinly sliced Salt , types of p49 Salt p49/ A natural product used as a flavour enhancer to bring out the flavours of other ingredients .
21 In some places , notably at the base of the celery stems where the green blanched to white , I used the blender pen to fade out the colour .
22 I decided that I should ask a friend for a loan of his electronic pH meter to find out the exact difference between the two tanks .
23 But it does n't take a crystal ball to figure out the diminishing returns involved in planning programmes around such disposable performers .
24 To counteract this , depot staff would lay a rope along the conduit slot to keep out the water and sand whenever there was a gale warning .
25 LLNL is working with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to try out the process on polychlorinated biphenyls , which are such a problem for conventional incineration .
26 ‘ I would make her a long , single-breasted jacket with a nipped-in waist , long sleeves and a stand-up mandarin collar to keep out the cold .
27 There was a willingness on the part of public authorities , not surprisingly , to allow voluntary bodies such as the National Vigilance Association to carry out the ( often unpopular ) duties of moral surveillance , though the practices of police and magistrates varied .
28 Yesterday , the new leader of the MSF , Roger Lyons , said Mr Gill had been asked to hand back part of his nest egg to help out the union during the recession .
29 Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists .
30 The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox .
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