Example sentences of "[vb pp] out at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drake has chestnut head with distinctive broad-bordered green stripe , and at rest can be picked out at a distance by horizontal white line above wing and buffish yellow patch behind tail coverts . |
| 2 | Reductions in support levels should be carried out at a pace that gives efficient farmers time to adjust and diversify . |
| 3 | A survey carried out at a school in Bradford , Yorks , revealed that 3.6 per cent of Asian girls aged 14 to 16 were bulimic compared to just 0.6 per cent of white girls . |
| 4 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 5 | In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more . |
| 6 | Nothing in the scheme required that the training be carried out at a college — far from it — but endorsement of the scheme by local colleges is an important feature . |
| 7 | AN analysis of organised crime by leading experts on Triads , the Mafia and Hell 's Angels is to be carried out at a conference next week . |
| 8 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 9 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 10 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 11 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 12 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 13 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 14 | Obviously , when parents are killed a whole generation is wiped out at a stroke . |
| 15 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |
| 16 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no doubt about the quality of the coal , but two questions need to be answered — can it be brought out at a price which allows a profit and can the consortium attract the investment required to run the place ? ’ |
| 18 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 19 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 20 | The agreement to form separate groups was worked out at a meeting on Feb. 10 at the presidential residence in Lany , attended also by Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel , who numbered many Liberal Club supporters among his closest associates but who had remained outside the conflict . |
| 21 | Ironically , before Monday night 's murder in north Belfast , the only other woman to be killed by terrorists this year was singled out at a flat a short distance away . |
| 22 | The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne . |
| 23 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |