Example sentences of "be out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now supposing it is n't you that crossing the road , but you 're out with a young child . |
| 2 | I never worry when we 're out in a force-eight gale ; not if she 's in charge . ’ |
| 3 | The mean number of hits and false alarms in Table 4.6 are out of a maximum possible number of nine . |
| 4 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 5 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
| 6 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 7 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 8 | The sweet williams would n't be out for a few days . |
| 9 | He 'll be out like a light ! |
| 10 | He was also ensuring that their first record , The Bride of Christ , would be out in a few weeks . |
| 11 | He 'll be out in a few years time . |
| 12 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 13 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 14 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 15 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 16 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 17 | That 22-month-old Limousin X is out of a Simmental Angus cow and was bred by Peter Walker , Easterside , Dunnottar . |
| 18 | The derelict land in the area chosen only amounts to 150 acres and of this , only 8 acres are council owned and this is out of a total UDC area of 1038 acres . |
| 19 | Whether this flows from a suspicion of private undertakings which lurks in every large bureaucracy , or whether it is out of a deeper political distaste for what Britain has done , or from a misguided belief that state-owned organisations are cleaner and safer than private ones , is unclear . |
| 20 | Cat Johnson , the Leicester player-coach , has injured an ankle , Dave Harris is out with a recurring leg injury , and Pat Morrison was released last week . |
| 21 | Second-choice keeper Gary Walsh went into hospital yesterday for a knee operation and third string Ian Wilkinson is out with a broken wrist . |
| 22 | Mm , ca n't remember what band he is out of , he 's out of a big band |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Drewer 's out for a few minutes — can I help ? ’ his secretary asked . |
| 24 | He was out for a good time , which might well involve finishing the evening with a fight . |
| 25 | After lunch , Graham Lloyd reached 34 before falling to Parsona , but Wasim Akram hit only five and Mike Matkinson was out for a lively 16 . |
| 26 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 27 | MIKE ATHERTON 's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today , when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch . |
| 28 | But he was out at a coronary , I believe , and by the time he arrived the baby was born . ’ |
| 29 | I rang the doctor , hoping he would suggest transferring her to Tewkesbury or Evesham , but he was out on a coronary emergency , so I had to wait . |
| 30 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |