Example sentences of "[vb pp] out the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment , so you are prepared for the exhilaration . |
| 2 | She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck . |
| 3 | Spokesman Tony Ward said the BAF were ‘ sad for Jason Livingston , ’ but added : ‘ We have carried out the right procedures and we would fight any court case to the bitter end to defend our position . ’ |
| 4 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 5 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |
| 6 | If you feel drained ( despite having carried out the previous visualisations ) , take a shower , if possible , or a bath containing essence of juniper . |
| 7 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 8 | Likewise , our early ancestors most probably sifted out the useful plants by scent , sight and intuition . |
| 9 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |
| 10 | The newspapers also sought out the previous victims of The Fox 's sex attacks . |
| 11 | That 's the theory … here 's the practical … first the course … they 've mapped out the 26 miles … the beauty of the route lies in the cobbled squares of ancient towns like Bhaktapur … the beast is the city … traffic and smoke is a major problem … the other unknown factor is altitude … |
| 12 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 13 | All the good timber had been felled and sold in the 1930s and saplings had quickly crowded out the original vistas . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd have got out the padded shoulders and the four-inch heels had I known you were going to appear looking like someone whom Central Casting had sent to play — ’ her gaze flicked over his well-groomed appearance and immaculate suit ‘ — the Wall Street tycoon , ’ she said astringently . |
| 15 | Neanderthals possessed bigger brains than we do ; the Cro-Magnons , generally regarded as having wiped out the Neanderthal precursors , were similarly large-brained . |
| 16 | The Egyptians , who conquered western Asia in the fifteenth century BC , hunted there , having recently wiped out the last elephants in their own lands . |
| 17 | At a rather general level , the analysis has borne out the earlier lessons . |
| 18 | Though she had been angry with fitzAlan , she would not have blurted out the bare facts to just anyone . |
| 19 | All right , so she was an adequate fixer , she helped him cut corners , smoothed out the rougher edges of his life . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , reviews of the whole gamut of recreational traffic models in rural areas , including trip generation models , distribution models , direct demand modelling , traffic assignment models , system simulation ( Miles and Smith , 1977 ) , and gravity models ( Baxter and Ewing , 1981 ) have pointed out the following deficiencies which still need to be remedied by further research on : |
| 21 | Peter Taylor , of the Political Ecology Research Group , has already pointed out the above-average numbers of cases of leukaemia in Barrow , Cumberland and Westmoreland , although he says ; ‘ Any link to the pattern of 1957 fallout can be ruled out because of the very low doses and the nature of the radioactivity . ’ |
| 22 | Theologically-minded critics have pointed out the Christian precedents to Wordsworth 's view of Nature . |
| 23 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 24 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 25 | Mark 's compensation and pension terms would be spelt out to him by New York within the next two weeks , after they had checked out the maximum terms permissible under British law . |
| 26 | Have you checked out the local sports facilities ? |
| 27 | Geoffrey Howe 's first budget on 14 June 1979 , only three weeks after the government had been in office , marked out the early objectives of the monetarist advance . |
| 28 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |
| 29 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 30 | Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ : |