Example sentences of "[vb past] out in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . )
2 They came out in the second half a much more committed side and proceeded to alter the whole complexion of the game with two goals from Paul Doney and Andrew Milne .
3 To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so .
4 In the Plate final — for teams knocked out in the first round of the Chairman 's Cup — Fife beat Perth 4–2 .
5 He put the home side on their way with an excellent goal in the first half , had what looked like a perfectly good effort ruled out in the second and caused the Latvians all sorts of problems with his well timed runs from deep .
6 Mats Wilander — dumped out in the first round
7 The more rural regions of East Anglia , the South-West and , to a lesser extent the East Midlands , lost out in the nineteenth century , but their fortunes have taken an upturn in recent decades .
8 Skipping an Ipswich rink , Roy Cutts , who had achieved a rare distinction of qualifying for all four championships — singles , pairs , triples and fours — went out in the first round of the fours to Egham of Surrey .
9 We went out in the first round and Lee did n't ask me anything until he 'd hit his drive .
10 It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution .
11 When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up .
12 They died out in the eighteenth century as a result of deforestation and hunting .
13 His departure , combined with those of Chris Kearney and Jason Fogerty who both fouled out in the last five minutes , proved crucial to the outcome .
14 Likewise , was n't hygiene something Lord Lister and others sorted out in the 19th century ?
15 But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ .
16 In short , there are many variations on the theme set out in the last paragraph .
17 As Hilary Graham pointed out in the first edition of this book :
18 Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing .
19 As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised .
20 As we pointed out in the last chapter , not only is the amount of redistribution to be undertaken by the government a pure value judgement on which different individuals and different political parties will disagree , but there is an inevitable trade-off between the competing objectives of efficiency and equity .
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