Example sentences of "out by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground was a mush of litter banked up on either side , and overhead the sky was blanked out by the narrow crowding of the strap-iron ladders and landings of fire escapes . |
| 2 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 3 | With most other lines of communication knocked out by the civil war , Porua 's La Clava played an important role in informing that isolated community . |
| 4 | There are also likely to be secondary craters , caused by large blocks of material flung out by the primary impact . |
| 5 | The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited . |
| 6 | Mark had often said to his American colleagues in Detroit and New York that the sales ' promotion literature put out by the Irish Development Authority to attract internationally mobile inward investment was superior to anything produced by any other European country . |
| 7 | Any tendency toward sentimentality is blasted out by the second movement 's raucous and ugly woodwind and brass writing . |
| 8 | Pending the formation of an Inter-republican Economic Committee [ see above ] , whose proposed structure and functions were being worked out by Ivan Silayev , RSFSR Prime Minister , the functions of government in the economic sphere were being carried out by the interim Committee for the Management of the National Economy , also chaired by Silayev [ see p. 38371 ] . |
| 9 | There is , then , a difference between ‘ outsider ’ research ( whether observational or manipulative ) which is carried out by the external researcher with teachers as part of the data or the object of enquiry , and ‘ insider ’ research which is carried out by teachers themselves . |
| 10 | These problems were highlighted in a report issued by the EEC itself , from a survey carried out by the European Science Foundation . |
| 11 | Inflation has taxed most Russians massively ; but whereas households have suffered these losses in full , Russia 's state-owned enterprises have , in effect , been bailed out by the central bank . |
| 12 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 13 | Certain aspects of environmental monitoring have long been carried out by the private sector , notably that of crop states on a world-wide basis . |
| 14 | Mullineux does not make it clear , however , what the advantages would be of dismantling the Bank of England and the major functions being carried out by the private sector , indeed it is difficult to see of any real benefits , although the disadvantages could be major . |
| 15 | This was bought out by the private cleaning firm BET , which then had to compete with other firms for the contracts to clean schools . |
| 16 | The Anarak Adventure state that if you are not completely knocked out by the finished product there will be no charge ! ! |
| 17 | Lest the childless or single feel left out by the cosy umbrella of ‘ Parents For Safe Food ’ ' however , they 've lately been acknowledged by the incorporation of the words ‘ And Others ’ in the organisation 's title . |
| 18 | According to details reported on Aug. 8 , a study carried out by the Canadian government concluded that a mixture of energy efficiency and conservation would be the best approach to achieve the 20 per cent cut . |
| 19 | In the hall she wraps a long scarf round her neck and puts on a cream-coloured quilted cotton jacket , with wide shoulders and inset sleeves , and lets herself out by the front door . |
| 20 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 21 | When he had had his breakfast , he went to the shed , opened the door and was nearly knocked out by the overpowering smell . |
| 22 | The logic of TGAT , however , and its ten levels of attainment , suggests that alternative strategies are open to us if we care to use them ; and this is borne out by the small print of Circular 5/89 , which stresses that the keystages themselves are to be understood with reference to the pupils ' average ages , so that a pupil may ‘ be taught with another age group for one or more subject areas where appropriate … while remaining with his or her peer group for other subjects . ’ |
| 23 | When they did use credit , it tended to be HP ( again borne out by the small number of West Indians interviewed for the main survey ) , and they knew a fair amount about their rights in an HP transaction , though they felt that the language of the agreements should be simpler to understand . |
| 24 | The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei . |
| 25 | When the lights dimmed again she would slip out by the rear exit , and it would be dark outside and very late when she came back . |
| 26 | He had gone in and out by the rear door and back stairs and seen no one but Linley . |
| 27 | The differential was too small to have a big impact , and , when it was publicised at all , was accompanied by assurances that the cost would be cancelled out by the lower summer charge . |
| 28 | Tretorn accept that the Association should have the right to choose the right ball on quality criteria in conjunction with the specifications laid out by the International Tennis Federation , ( which Tretorn balls meet ) , but feels that allowing the LTA to choose the type of ball , could lead to unfair discrimination against its permanent pressure variety . |
| 29 | And then , finally , out of sight but only fifty or sixty yards from this room in the field next the garden , there lies buried the main street of the old village that was wiped out by the Black Death . |
| 30 | Finer particles are filtered out by the mechanical filtering action inside the box — usually using foam or brushes ( or both ) . |