Example sentences of "out [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a shame that there are no photographs but each chapter begins with a Tom Price sketch and the text marks Sylvie out as a skilled travel writer rather than just a traveller who writes , a thoroughly good read . |
| 2 | " In the organization too there were exponents of continued cooperation ; although Younger worked to defeat coalition in 1922 he did not rule it out as a future possibility . |
| 3 | For Tencel , Courtaulds ' new cellulosic fibre , Italy has been singled out as a prime target in Europe because of the size , quality and design strength of its textile industry . |
| 4 | Ask a hundred people what their least favourite part of the Spectrum is and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of the keyboard being pointed out as a prime culprit . |
| 5 | It is interesting to note , however , how strong the price was in the final quarter of the year , when Houghton Mifflin was singled out as a prime beneficiary of Clinton-inspired support for education as well as the more favourable demographic trends . |
| 6 | The T9000 memory is laid out as a dual-ported memory and is therefore accessible for measurements by the T805 . |
| 7 | What started out as a loyal band of Kylie watchers has now grown into a legion of Wannabes : teenage girls who spend all their waking hours trying to dress , talk and sing like Kylie . |
| 8 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 9 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 10 | Violence is not ruled out as a political weapon . |
| 11 | Pension abatement has been singled out as a blatant piece of age discrimination that is obsolete and should be abolished . |
| 12 | In retrospect Bukharin 's ‘ Notes of An Economist ’ stand out as a clearsighted warning against the headlong rush to industrialisation — without due regard to proportionality — that was embarked upon with the FFYP . |
| 13 | Lingering in the background was the English claim to overlordship of Scotland , occasionally dragged out as a diplomatic counter to Scottish military ambitions on England 's northern border ; but these neither seriously interrupted the peace between the two countries nor undermined Scotland 's status as an independent kingdom . |
| 14 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 15 | As briefly as possible , Ruth told the story and Rosie chimed in , ‘ But now I 've left Soho , and moved back with the family , to help out as a part-time barmaid . ’ |
| 16 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 17 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 18 | Before acting out as a late Father Christmas , I want to erm , come up with some general , how shall I put it , general considerations , this is why you have slides , you realise that slides are not actually for your benefit , they 're for my benefit , that I can remember where I am and what I 'm supposed to do . |
| 19 | Especially since Tunney 's already struck out as a private eye . |
| 20 | If you prefer to start out as a pay-as-you-go rower , try the Nottingham-based National Water Sports Centre 's Rowing Club . |
| 21 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 22 | An invention that started out as a simple toy for children grew over the years to become a lifetime hobby for millions of people . |
| 23 | Rameau laid this out as a simple trio for first and second violins and continuo , with flutes doubling the firsts in unison . |
| 24 | It introduced new stars like Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder and what started out as a low budget film featuring little-knowns became Warners ' biggest grossing movie of the decade . |
| 25 | Meallan nan Uan , little hill of the lambs , sticks out as a sharp cone , and a grand highway leads along to its double top , with unusual views of familiar ranges lying in every direction . |
| 26 | Construction could be caried out as a joint venture with the new state-owned company set up to operate all existing nuclear plant . |
| 27 | The analysis of the information objects and communication aspects , carried out as a joint exercise to ensure method economy , was undertaken in two stages , ie first by interviewing a few staff , then distributing a questionnaire based on the initial findings . |
| 28 | Even so , the Bosnian Serbs ' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan on May 6th stands out as a spectacular triumph of greed and folly over common sense . |
| 29 | news on ronny johnsen is that he probably will not be offered a contract with spurs — he was tried out as a central marking defender ( the style most teams play — each central defender marks one attacker ) and as such he was no succes — norway play what we call a zone defence ; ‘ marking ’ their zones instead of players — journalists from Holland were laughing as Norway 's coach Drillo Olsen was asked ‘ who is to mark van Basten ? ’ before our home game against Holland and he answered ‘ No one is ’ — they did not laugh afterwards ( we won 2–1 ) . |
| 30 | In a continent notorious for appalling prison conditions , where brutality and corruption are the norm , Nicaragua 's penal system stands out as a genuine effort to find a more humane yet affordable alternative . |