Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 2 | In the UK anyway , the published products of historical scholarship , monographs and articles in learned journals , are still the principal criteria upon which promotion and professional recognition are meted out within the humanities . |
| 3 | When it is grabbed , its elongated , sharp-pointed ribs are pressed out through the sides of its body and into the lining of the mouth of the hapless hunter . |
| 4 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 5 | Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all . |
| 6 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 7 | Tests are carried out at the United States Department of Energy 's site in Nevada under the terms of the 1958 agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States . |
| 8 | Research projects on many topics are carried out at the CTVM , overseas , and elsewhere in the Edinburgh area and students and staff present their work at weekly seminars . |
| 9 | These chapters record how the instructions given in chapters 25–31 are carried out to the letter . |
| 10 | Project management , incorporating information management , within these programmes will ensure that they are carried out to the same high standard as our taxonomic and floristic research . |
| 11 | Did you realise that 43 per cent of all sociological surveys are carried out on the M1 , M4 and M6 ? |
| 12 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |
| 13 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 14 | A number of investigations are carried out with the scaled-up analyser to determine what factors can lead to improvement in performance . |
| 15 | The yeoman is the administrative assistant to the food manager and is responsible for the keeping of all records and producing all reports of the department the majority of which are carried out with the help of a computer . |
| 16 | Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on . |
| 17 | This system is streets ahead of the slap-happy way tests are carried out in the UK , where the whole system of hip dysplasia testing is open to abuse . |
| 18 | All the processes other than the actual embroidery are carried out in the numerous ‘ embroidery factories ’ , most of which are located in Funchal . |
| 19 | Economic models are particularly useful since millions of daily transactions are carried out in the real world and so some means must be found of expressing the essential characteristics of the problem at hand . |
| 20 | When the multiplications are carried out in the order indicated , the upper Hessenberg form is maintained throughout , If , however , we begin by multiplying the central three matrices , the upper Hessenberg form is lost , with a accompanying loss of simplicity . |
| 21 | On one hand , the multinationals with their headquarters in the UK increasingly organize their worldwide production to gain the benefit of cheap labour in the Third World to carry out those parts of the manufacturing process that are labour-intensive , while the parts that are capital-intensive or rely on skilled techniques such as design are carried out in the UK . |
| 22 | This is very much less certain when the operations are carried out by the state or by non-resident financial institutions or investors seeking to rearrange their affairs advantageously , particularly in the UK where forestry receives substantial fiscal incentives . |
| 23 | Efficiency audits have no real private sector counterpart since monopoly references , though they also are carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , are more limited in scope . |
| 24 | Unlike users of reference services or online services , where search negotiations are carried out by the librarian or intermediary , users have had to know what they wanted . |
| 25 | Independent inspections are carried out by the B.S.I. who send in experts unannounced to carry out checks . |
| 26 | The chairman and deputy chairman of the Panel are appointed by the Governor of the Bank of England but the Panel 's day-to-day functions are carried out by the Director General and his executive staff who are seconded from the Bank of England and various organisations within the City of London . |
| 27 | Similar opinion surveys are carried out throughout the European Economic Community and are published by the European Commission . |
| 28 | There is now light at the end of the runnel as the contracts are let out in the final stage this month . |
| 29 | According to David Grey , working for the Malawian Department of Land , Valuation and Water , under a British technical assistance programme , there is no point in improving the design of pump heads until problems are sorted out with the boreholes . |
| 30 | Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse . |