Example sentences of "[to-vb] out the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets .
2 In Bassetlaw the care manager for mental health is on maternity leave and the existing social work team is having to try out the new procedures .
3 We advise our composers , helping to sift out the bad songs and to search out opportunities for our writers to compose ‘ covers ’ for particular artists .
4 There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts .
5 Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names .
6 Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons .
7 The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold .
8 , writes : MY DAUGHTER is getting married in October and we are trying to find out the proper rules .
9 In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . "
10 If there is one of interest in your area , please contact the appropriate person to find out the full details and whether places are still available .
11 IN THE SECOND PART OF OUR SERIES ON PRACTICAL USES FOR YOUR SPREADSHEET , DENNIS JENKIN EXPLAINS HOW TO WORK OUT THE FINANCIAL PROS AND CONS OF RENTING OR BUYING A PROPERTY .
12 We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined .
13 It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future .
14 A small , thin tabby , she spent her life trying to work out the central dilemmas of her life — how to get in and out of the house , and why the fat man called Henry tried to kick her every time the two other people in the house were out of the way .
15 You have to work out the right questions to find out what you want to know , see ? "
16 He began to work out the probable returns from his night 's work .
17 You will have to work out the potential problems for the patient , and take care to avoid them .
18 Successful communication is based upon people 's capacity to interpret prose and in all but the simplest cases this depends on the ability to work out the grammatical relationships between the words within sentences .
19 How much will he spend to bail out the first-wave trusts so that they do not end the first financial year in deficit ?
20 In the light of the foregoing , an invitation to spell out the legal rules governing the treatment of the terminally ill must be regarded with some trepidation .
21 In those circumstances , it will be necessary to attempt to spell out the general laws , metaphysical and methodological principles , etc. involved in a paradigm in order to defend them against the alternatives involved in the threatening new paradigm .
22 ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’
23 Out of the conceptualization of housework as work which is a major theme of this study arises the need to spell out the different components in what is broadly termed women 's ‘ domesticity ’ .
24 Organisers expect to sell out the 52 matches , culminating with the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California .
25 These can actually be a very good source of low cost resistors , capacitors , diodes , etc. , but only if you know what you are doing , and you have the necessary test equipment to sort out the good components from the ‘ duds ’ .
26 To sort out the various pitches and decide if the language is tonal or not , you therefore need a frame with pitches that stay the same relative to each other .
27 So one way to sort out the various GUTs is to see which can be used to tell believable — and , ideally , testable — stories about the big bang .
28 It is therefore necessary to use some sort of classification to sort out the various ways in which we might approach the problems of observation .
29 Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists .
30 The mother postponed her second marriage for six months to give time to sort out the new relationships .
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