Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 An over-ambitious social physics , albeit statistically sophisticated , would give an oddly flat theory of social relationships precisely because unique , yet meaningful , patterns would be smoothed out under general statistical laws .
2 And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court .
3 Ideally this water should be wrung out into another container and not mixed with fresh rinse water .
4 It needs to be filled out by detailed evidence from local studies .
5 Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations .
6 If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all !
7 It must be pointed out in this connection that , as the court has consistently held , the mere fact that the competent authority is empowered to grant exemptions or dispensations can not justify a national measure which is contrary to the E.E.C .
8 All this had to be ripped out before any redecoration could get underway .
9 British Rail insist the whole problem though regrettable , will be ironed out within nine months .
10 The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit their professional role and inhabit it to the utmost ; they will not be shaken out by external events , however surprising , alarming or vexing .
11 Economic income is simply the maximum amount of real income that can be consumed out of real wealth during a given period without impairing the ability of that stock of real wealth to deliver real income and hence real consumption in the future .
12 The chosen means of achieving this end was to provide local authorities with central government funds which could be used for housing construction and enable the level of rents to be subsidized out of general Exchequer funds — in other words , the framework of the system of public housing finance with which we are familiar today .
13 Most of the red-throated divers which appear in the inshore voes at this time will be local breeders , and territories and relationships will be sorted out with much caterwauling and chasing before the successful pair set up home on some peaty pool .
14 If footswitching could be sorted out for these then the covers and pub band scene could well be awash with Marshall S80s .
15 The first stage of this involves cutting out sugar anyway , so the simplest type of Candida problem will be sorted out during that stage .
16 Perhaps the most difficult problem that had to be sorted out in 1689 concerned the settlement in the Church .
17 When back office problems lead to a suspension they can not be sorted out in short order . ’
18 When back office problems lead to a suspension they can not be sorted out in short order . ’
19 So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ?
20 But she added that the problems would be sorted out by next week .
21 The only thing left to be sorted out after eighteen months of hard labour was the disastrous lean-to at the rear of the house .
22 In sheltered positions the effect of the westerly winds would be minimised , while that of easterly winds would be accentuated out of normal proportion .
23 This will then overcome this silly bigotry of the Labour Group in trying to ostracise the opted-out school in and the College , when this Charter is in place , we 'll be able to compare every facet of education across the district because the results will be published for all to see and these two schools will not be able to be frozen out of that exercise .
24 The later text , much darker in the picture than the earlier one , can then be edited out of this digital image .
25 Such a bouncing of complicity and distance is a characteristic form of engagement in generically mixed forms such as Hill Street Blues , St. Elsewhere or thirtysomething : a form of engagement in which identification and recognition are liable to be wrong-footed at any moment by ironic distance , and , at the same time , ironic distance is liable to be caught out by sudden empathetic recognition .
26 An opinion can not be conjured out of thin air — it must be based on something .
27 ‘ Now , these things can be exaggerated out of all proportion .
28 The designers of the material had provided explicit suggestions for the time to be spent on each activity within a unit and had indicated whether activities should be carried out as individual work or group discussion .
29 Both of them can be thought of as being exercised in varying degrees , so that observation of people can be carried out with varying degrees of participation and varying degrees of control .
30 A survey is to be carried out with riparian owners contributing to the £500 cost .
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