Example sentences of "[vb pp] out the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he had sorted out the technique of using the deaf-aid , he found it wonderfully relaxing . |
| 2 | She ought to be hoping instead that they did go to Civitavecchia and finally sorted out the mystery of Jeff and Silvia . |
| 3 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |
| 4 | The Boards usually carried out the work of laying distribution mains themselves , though sometimes they used independent contractors . |
| 5 | Indeed these officials are likely to have carried out the duties of assistant commissioner , resident magistrate , general arbitrator , tax-collector and market supervisor all rolled into one . |
| 6 | The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate . |
| 7 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 8 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 9 | They will be able to challenge the charges of a solicitor executor who has carried out the administration of the estate , by applying for a Remuneration Certificate from the Law Society . |
| 10 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 11 | The researchers have therefore not only separated out the effects of gluons from those due to quarks , but have also learned something about the still little understood way in which these building blocks turn into conventional particles . |
| 12 | The astonishing achievements of Western civilisation in controlling and exploring the resources of the world , and the consequent increase in material wealth and standards of living , would not have taken place if the procurement of knowledge for its own sake had not mapped out the paths of which technology and investment for profit thereafter took advantage . |
| 13 | GRAHAM Robb , Conservative candidate in Hartlepool , mapped out the course of his campaign at his adoption meeting in the town 's Grand Hotel . |
| 14 | Have I written out the Word of God before the session ? |
| 15 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 16 | The children had been watching TV and the noise had drowned out the sound of the fire raging downstairs . |
| 17 | There was a cassette which provided a background commentary , a monologue about the glory of dying in the arms of a comrade at Christmas as the stars above sung out the glory of the Lord . |
| 18 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 19 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 20 | There and in its environs , this week , have been played out the shows of Kenneth Baker as Kenneth Branagh , Michael Heseltine as Alvin Stardust , and Geoffrey Howe as Geoffrey Howe . |
| 21 | Street vendors called out the merits of their wares , shouting each other down in the hope of attracting customers from the goodwives who were out doing the morning marketing . |
| 22 | Ever since Ford had pointed out the location of the sepoy magazine Harry had been unable to get it out of his mind . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was not until the cheers had subsided and Reg Pybus had pointed out the rashness of my statement that I decided instead on getting the match abandoned . |
| 25 | Writers like Saunders ( 1984 , 1986 ) have pointed out the problems of structuralism , but in their own work have often been guilty of endorsing profoundly capital logic accounts of social process . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Miller ( 1981 ) has pointed out the dangers of sloppy terminology here . |
| 28 | Many have pointed out the absurdity of concluding that the reality is impersonal and purposeless on the basis of a methodology which deliberately and systematically excludes such notions . |
| 29 | Howard continually pointed out the arbitrariness of prison discipline , and the fact that such an evil was made possible primarily by the absence of formal , written , and published rules . |
| 30 | Lionel Sawkins has shown that men did , indeed , sing soprano parts at the French court , and Lois Rosow has pointed out the appearance of male sopranos in the chorus at the Paris Opéra . |