Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry . |
| 2 | Thus , in addition to the basic meaning of ‘ constitution ’ — a document containing , at the very least , a code of rules setting out the allocation of functions , powers and duties among the various agencies and officers of government — there is a wider meaning of constitution , according to which every democratic state has a constitution . |
| 3 | The paper proposed for each area of the curriculum for pupils 5–14 ‘ a nationally agreed set of guidelines setting out the aims of study , the content to be covered , and the objectives to be achieved ’ . |
| 4 | SAVE began by writing to the Department of Transport setting out the importance of the park , only to be told that a large number of representations had been made in favour of the proposed route . |
| 5 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 6 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 7 | To my way of thinking , penguins are superb examples of evolution fitting out a bird to make the best use of its environment — the only potential problem being man . |
| 8 | They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine . |
| 9 | oh it , they showed you pictures of things coming out the squares |
| 10 | ( 4 ) A scheme of arrangement setting out the details of the scheme and identifying the steps mentioned in para 2.4.3 above . |
| 11 | I get stuck in a crowd of people coming out the tube and I have to stand on tiptoe so I can keep my eye on her . |
| 12 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 13 | For two days she remained at large despite a posse of pupils carrying out an inch-by-inch search of the building . |
| 14 | He said the case was a one-off , but he 's writing to a Government committee on the safety of medicines pointing out the potential dangers . |
| 15 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 16 | Sometimes customers spend a lot of time finding out the value of an item before applying . |
| 17 | You can spend an enormous amount of time checking out the possibilities for a particular audio-visual presentation only to find the organiser or speaker changes his mind . |