Example sentences of "out [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.

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1 Settling tanks can be of several types , and they use the principle of slowing the rate of flow of the water to allow the solid particles to fall out as a sludge that can be removed separately .
2 So erm I 'm just throwing this out as an idea that we perhaps we offer one half of this amount here
3 When we worked it out as an average that the sheer monitoring and chasing quotes or following up quotes erm and just preparing the documentation , we were n't convinced that was the case at all .
4 Mr Graham Crowley says the North-East stands out as an area that is creating opportunities for artists and many craft people encouraged to move to the region in readiness for Arts ‘ 96 .
5 After years of industry — and the country — being almost paralysed by strikes and restrictive practices , the country was crying out for a Government that would give a lead .
6 Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson .
7 We went out for a lunch that was late even by Madrid standards , then went to a zarzueia .
8 The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) .
9 From the demonstrations of British pluck and enterprise in The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ) , the first of a series of escape pictures , and the celebration of one woman 's heroism in the Anna Neagle-starring Odette ( 1950 ) , through action films such as The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) , The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 , Pursuit of the Graf Spee in US ) and Sink the Bismark ( 1960 ) , there is a sense of well-known events being played out for an audience that already knew about them .
10 They went out through a door that was marked ‘ Hours of Opening : 08.00 to 23.59 ’ .
11 My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion .
12 I said to him we made her a cup of coffee out of a teapot that was bought and she says she was talking about it .
13 Like many others , he attended the founding meeting out of a conviction that ‘ something had to be done ’ .
14 A smaller number volunteered to assist the rebels , likewise out of a conviction that on Spanish soil a wider struggle was being fought out .
15 As with socialism , its inherent limitations were as important in this respect as its positive aspects : Luis Recabarren founded his Socialist Workers ' party partly out of a conviction that anarchist prohibitions on party and parliamentary activity were short-sighted and had to be rejected .
16 Changes of emphasis within art education , which have arisen out of a realization that the skills of response and appreciation do not necessarily result from the practice of art , have led to explorations into the nature of aesthetic experience , enquiries into its patterns of development and attempts to assess the skills and achievements possible within this area ( APU , 1983 ) .
17 The US government began to look favourably on such plans in the mid-sixties , presumably out of a realization that something more permanent than arm-twisting had to be done to protect the gold in Fort Knox .
18 There 's an amazing amount of feel that you can get out of a guitar that you could never get out of any other instrument .
19 ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine .
20 This was not altruism on the part of the brewers , but was born out of a realisation that preserving the best of their heritage could make them money .
21 The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions .
22 If they start to moan at long , boring nights of inactivity , the bottom could quickly fall out of a tour that in cricketing terms has all the ingredients of being a huge success .
23 We thought that if it was only one tournament out of a Tour that was growing so fast it would not matter .
24 It blazed naked out of a sky that could not remember what cloud was .
25 It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years .
26 Pavel levers himself into his car , forcing movement out of a body that longs for sleep more than anything else .
27 At the window they laughed together and bit a knuckle , like children or housemaids — watching avidly , they saw the two boys get out of a car that could not be Robert 's .
28 The character , the flamboyance is being f—ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous .
29 She gave him a Coke out of a fridge that held caviare , half-empty tins of sardines and water-chestnuts , and medicine bottles for the dogs .
30 His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him .
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