Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] out the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But if that is n't bad enough , it is n't scheduled until April 24 — which means he has to sit out the inter-provincials .
2 Miller ( 1981 ) has pointed out the dangers of sloppy terminology here .
3 Scriven has pointed out the distinction between formative and summative evaluation .
4 As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand .
5 Bishop John Taylor , in his moving and perceptive book The Go Between God , has pointed out the importance of this link between the Spirit , with all his undifferentiated power , and the Word , with all its particularity of meaning .
6 Nisbet ( 1979 ) has pointed out the irony that this new distrust may itself be a product of modern education , since a number of new approaches to teaching and learning encourage children to ‘ think for themselves ’ .
7 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 .
8 But after a visit to his home by a senior officer of Cleveland Police , he has painted out the symbols .
9 Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county .
10 Properly to understand this , one needs to spell out the counter-argument , even to the point of saying what ordinarily goes without saying .
11 Since I started as an engineer , and have ended as a biologist , I am struck by the similarities between the two ways of thinking , although there is the difference that an engineer starts with a function to be performed , and designs a structure to perform it , whereas a biologist often starts with a structure , and has to work out the function it is performing .
12 The rider has to work out the problem , why it has happened and then decide how best to correct it .
13 This is because , after a sunbird has sucked out the nectar from a flower , the flower takes some time to replenish its nectaries .
14 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 .
15 ‘ Its actual value is impossible to know , ’ said Mr Peter Freebody , whose yard at Hurley , near Henley , has carried out the project .
16 During my discussions with President Yeltsin , he explicitly accepted the disproportion between the British nuclear deterrent , Trident , and the nuclear capacity that will be available to the Soviet Union even after it has carried out the reductions to which it has committed itself , and which will take a decade or more to implement .
17 The Computer Centre has carried out the programming work for all of the systems described above .
18 If a retailer wants to find out the value of sales for each metre of shelf space in a shop , he needs first to find out what the TOTAL shelf measurement is , by measuring each shelf and adding the lengths together .
19 At the same time , there is continuous pressure from creative people for simplicity in the briefs they are given and the creative brief , clearly , needs to set out the strategy in a way that is intelligible to , and usable by , the creative team : if it is n't , it 's useless .
20 Last night a spokesman for Scottish Enterprise denied there was any question of either its or LiS 's abusing power and insisted that they were not actively marketing Rosyth and it had been the market that has sought out the opportunities .
21 The model takes such actions for granted because its reduction of macro to micro has bracketed out the conditions under which it might be put in question .
22 Bacon had little interest in English neo-romanticism and Minton would have been unable to accept Bacon 's nihilism , his insistence that man is a futile being who has to play out the game dependent not on reason but chance .
23 Tomlinson ( 1980a ) has drawn out the implication that there may be a space to begin to develop democratic and cooperative forms of enterprise management , even given the continuation of the production of commodities for profit .
24 ‘ I hear your lad has drawn out the Livesey file , ’ he said belligerently .
25 It 's the first time the Rothmans chairman has spelt out the risk to jobs from Labour 's policy .
26 ‘ Anyway , ’ Yanto continued , ‘ Selwyn starts pulling out the bucket from under me .
27 ‘ No name 's been mentioned , but I understand an international construction company has bought out the business lock , stock and barrel , so now the parque aquático will be their baby .
28 LIFESPAN has timed out the link .
29 MANAGER Graham Smith has spelled out the rewards to his England B team of a convincing display against the Springboks at Bristol today .
30 Landlords who wish to take over public sector dwellings have first to seek the approval of the Housing Corporation which has set out the criteria for approval in some detail .
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