Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] out [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases this involves experimental work to test particular theories of how certain processes were carried out and the ways that artefacts were constructed . |
| 2 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 3 | Follow-up assessments were carried out when the children were six years old . |
| 4 | Huddersfield were caught out as the red-haired centre-half rushed forward to meet the cross from a comer , and headed Arsenal into the semi-final . |
| 5 | The young men were turned out and the girls looked very pretty , some of them in microscopic skirts ! |
| 6 | World stockmarkets reacted with relief and optimism at the start of the Gulf war , but some of the gains were wiped out when the first hopes of a quick victory faded , and the Soviet Union turned violent again . |
| 7 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 8 | Troops were called out and the Riot Act was proclaimed in Worthing in 1884 . |
| 9 | But , at length , the drawings and sketches were laid out and the plans for Flaherty 's new steam-powered melting pot which had unaccountably been packed by mistake put away again . |
| 10 | It also urged firms to make sure they completed and exported orders quickly in case they were found out or the UN introduced further sanctions against Iraq . |
| 11 | The effect is as if a central strip were cut out and the remaining top and bottom rectangles rejoined . |
| 12 | The stitches were taken out and the wounds healed well . |
| 13 | Of the forty of us who had survived so far , another twelve were weeded out and the rest of us sat there until 6.00 pm looking at the posters on the walls and reading the few tattered paperbacks which sat on the shelves . |
| 14 | By 1988 , a fishing timeshare scheme had been successfully launched , the cottages were rented out and the lodge was open for guests . |
| 15 | Finally , on April 10 it was given out that the government had agreed to the opposition 's main demands for the rapid legalization of political parties and for an amnesty for political activists . |
| 16 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 17 | This was shaken out as the hay was made , helping to maintain the rich variety of flowers and herbs . |
| 18 | A typical example is the 1978 Tremadoc Guidebook comment after the first ascent of Fingerlicker in 1975 , where alone in that guide it was pointed out that the route had only been climbed after two ‘ Yo-Yo 's ’ ( according to the 1975 definition of a Yo-Yo ) . |
| 19 | In a previous article ( Triseliotis , 1985 ) it was pointed out that the Adoption Act 1976 and 1978 ( Scotland ) might have to be changed to provide explicitly that adoption orders could be made with a condition of access , where desirable , for members of the biological family . |
| 20 | While the increase in Headley Parish Council 's contribution towards the upkeep of the churchyard is welcomed , it was pointed out that the church still has to find £2,412 from general funds to cover the deficit . |
| 21 | Then it was pointed out that the soft city lights of the painting were The Boulevard Montemarte At Night . |
| 22 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 23 | It was pointed out that the Northern Ireland Council on Disability was in the process of investigating the services different agencies are providing for disabled people — not just in relation to physical access , but also in relation to access to the network of information on different services and projects which exclude disability interests . |
| 24 | It was pointed out that the relocation of Mackies would create just such conditions and eventually the minority workforce will be disposed of . |
| 25 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 26 | In chapter 2 it was pointed out that the Thatcher government had made strong efforts to curb overall local government expenditure . |
| 27 | The correctness of the decision in Duncan v. Jones has been doubted in Australia , where it was pointed out that the effect of the decision is that ‘ members of Parliament could be forbidden to address hostile audiences during election campaigns . ’ |
| 28 | That functions also as a relative pronoun : It was pointed out that the situation was improving ( conjunction ) ; The book that you gave me is very interesting ( relative pronoun ) . |
| 29 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 30 | It was pointed out that the modular nature of the new advanced provision lends itself to students choosing groups of units which , although having vocational relevance for the individual or a particular employer , do not satisfy the criteria for an existing HNC or HND . |