Example sentences of "out [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 2 | The recent budget agreement means that in the current fiscal year , as America moves into recession , this discretionary component of fiscal policy is tightening to the tune of 1% of GNP , almost enough to cancel out easing in the automatic component . |
| 3 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 4 | But it was Portsmouth who came out firing in the second half . |
| 5 | Mark Ramprakash 's unlucky run in Test cricket continued when he was given out caught by the helmeted Asif Mujtaba at short leg in the second innings . |
| 6 | She started out walking along the main drag in the Miraflores commercial district , Avenue Larco , with a small case strapped to her neck , hawking cigarettes and chocolates . |
| 7 | At last , the morning came when Oliver was allowed to go out to work with the two other boys . |
| 8 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 9 | If he was the sole breadwinner , you may have to go out to work for the first time . |
| 10 | The women go out to work in the same way as other women , but know that their main priority in life is to care for their families . |
| 11 | Quickly an apartment block rose six storeys high around it , almost removing it from sight : passers-by could just make it out looking through the unglazed windows of the unfinished ground-floor flats . |
| 12 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 13 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 14 | As the path flattened out to lead across the close turf to the house Leonora 's feet slowed . |
| 15 | They changed in the changing rooms so thoughtfully provided and came out shivering in the cool evening . |
| 16 | The teachers made us go out to play in the snowbound playground and I joined in with all the fun , sliding around in the snow and slush , throwing snowballs , all the usual things . |
| 17 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 18 | We 're having a whole day next term to sort out testing for the eleven year olds . |
| 19 | u. ) per hectare was very difficult to work out owing to the tremendous variation in hill ground types . |
| 20 | It is an aspect of performance practice where several cogent arguments can always be trotted out to avoid considering the hard evidence . |
| 21 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 22 | Searchers were called out to look for the overdue hikers , and spotting their torches in the distance Alistair used his camera flash to attract their attention . |
| 23 | She entered the theme room , which was decked out to look like the great hall of a medieval castle . |
| 24 | Steppenwolf , Blue Oyster Cult , Jo Jo Gunne and Alice Cooper join forces with the predictable ( but great ) Bachman Turner Overdrive , and what crawls out sounds like the best hard rock compilation of all time . |
| 25 | During the 1980s BP Minerals International Ltd investigated several areas for gold mineralisation in Scotland and carried out drilling in the Craven Basin in northern England for carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn mineralisation . |
| 26 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 27 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 28 | ( The Abbey 's building and contents insurance must be taken out to qualify for the first time buyer 's discount ) . |
| 29 | Remember that even if the precinct appears brightly lit to the eye , your camcorder will probably be working flat out to expose for the wide shots . |
| 30 | Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end . |