Example sentences of "out [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to find out about the better side of cruising catamarans , phone for details . |
| 2 | Wrenching up the sash , he leaned out for a clearer view . |
| 3 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 4 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 5 | With Amstrad shares edging ahead to 29p , just 1p below the offer price , analysts were expecting shareholders to hold out for a better offer . |
| 6 | Wallace Mercer holding out for a better offer . |
| 7 | Greece sought until the last moment to hold out for a higher ceiling than the 60,500 transit licences offered to Greek lorries . |
| 8 | It may be considered that a three year period in 7.6.5 is too long and that two years is an adequate period for reinstatement to take place , but the landlord will probably hold out for the longer period . |
| 9 | Several safety audits had been carried out after an earlier explosion in 1984 , but Occidental , the owners , never released the findings . |
| 10 | Helping women to stay at home yet giving them an occupation , some money and a branch held out towards the wider community were all worthy goals in Laura 's eyes . |
| 11 | They loaded the Zodiac dinghy , outboard motor , and the limpet mines into the camper and drove south , reaching Auckland around 7.30 p.m. where witnesses living at Stanley Point on the northern shore of Auckland Harbour saw two men take an inflatable dinghy out of a camper van and carry it down to the water 's edge . |
| 12 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 13 | Later the same term was used to denote the geometrical figure that is formed when a smaller square is cut out of a larger square with two of its adjacent sides lying along two adjacent sides of the latter . |
| 14 | For example , management may be buying a specific business out of a larger group of companies because they perceive it to have greater value as a single concern than its ( often ) discounted value as part of the vendor 's group . |
| 15 | In addition , the conditions OUT OF , specifying any n conditions out of a larger number , and BETWEEN . |
| 16 | The material taken out of the higher point of the site was deemed unsuitable for use at the lower end . |
| 17 | She came to the window when he pressed the button on the entryphone , poking her head out of the lower half of the opened sash window , through dark brown curtains . |
| 18 | In a meritocracy , talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata . |
| 19 | Variety headlines spin out of the papier maché mist and chart the rise of a career . |
| 20 | Hartmann ( 1979 ) argues that male workers are able to keep women out of the better jobs because of their organization , and that as a consequence women are obliged to marry on unfavourable terms , such that they have to do most of the housework . |
| 21 | Blow through the small hole so the contents come out of the larger hole on to the saucer . |
| 22 | Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) . |
| 23 | Out of the longer silence while they all digested this fiat and readjusted to a suggestion so unexpected , the earl said with evident satisfaction — indeed , to Cadfael 's ears bordering on glee : ‘ Agreed ! |
| 24 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 25 | The barest instant after he was free , a tongue of flame blasted out of the cave at his heels , and pieces of the higher slopes disappeared inwards as flames and gouts of smoke exploded out of the weaker points of the mountain . |
| 26 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 27 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 28 | Perhaps the World Cup had taken too much out of the younger sides . |
| 29 | Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript . |
| 30 | Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript . |