Example sentences of "out at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A Contracts Specialist with Scottish Nuclear since 1990 , Gordon will be involved in the setting up and administration of a range of contracts for assessment studies for work to be carried out at the Kozloduy Power Station . |
2 | They stared silently out at the gentle panorama until their reveries were interrupted by loud barking from the graveyard . |
3 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
4 | Mr Stringer , a most gracious loser despite experiencing the disappointment of missing out at the penultimate stage for the second time in three years , asked : ‘ What more do you have to do to prove yourself . ’ |
5 | But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago . |
6 | On July 2 a strike broke out at the Markushegy unit of the Oroszlany coalmines , when miners demanded a wage rise of up to 50 per cent , the dismissal of incompetent managers and a halt to privatization of the mines ; the strike was settled on July 3 when the government acceded to most of the demands . |
7 | The bill had arrived just before our fifth wedding anniversary , celebrated with a rare night out at the Working Men 's Club with my in-laws and Pam and her first husband , Gordon . |
8 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
9 | According to chitchat out at the recent SunWorld Expo in California , initial versions of the 32-bit superscalar part are expected produce 100 SPECmarks , and if everything goes well , then it 'll reportedly be closer to the 200 SPECmark range . |
10 | It proved a remarkable race for Naali who had been paid by the promoters to act as a pacemaker and drop out at the halfway stage . |
11 | Looking out at the dark motorway strip , she decided she hated Damian Flint . |
12 | On the top floor of 32 , Mrs Mackintosh stared nervously out at the dark street . |
13 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
14 | Sadly , it has been our experience in the past that the most specialised work carried out at the Atomic Weapons Establishment leads scientists into a cul-de-sac of research that has little , or no , relevance to science as practised in civilian life … |
15 | A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past . |
16 | Others quietly practised on the putting green or , half-asleep , gazed out at the distant sweep of the Est Sands as though the jogging figure of Eric Liddell and his dog might materialise from ‘ Chariots of Fire ’ . |
17 | She glanced at her daughter as she reached for the silver letter-knife ; Senga was standing before the French doors , looking out at the snow-piled garden . |
18 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
19 | He has to get the barley , go out at the right time and sow it . |
20 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
21 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
22 | He stared out at the dappled sky , trying to remember . |
23 | Stavros Niachos , 81 , will neither confirm nor deny that he was the buyer of Yo , Picasso , the 1901 self-portrait of the artist at his easel , staring boldly out at the new century ; but it certainly went to the bidder who has often acted on his behalf . |
24 | In any case , rescinding the deal will be very hard and was virtually ruled out at the annual meeting by Christopher Sharples , the AFBD 's chairman . |
25 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
26 | Languidly she turned her head to the west-facing windows , staring out at the neighbouring mountain high above the hill upon which Saracen was built . |
27 | The president , through his spokesman , also lashed out at the chief justice , Valery Zorkin , for publicly opposing his weekend speech before the Constitutional Court began formally to review the case yesterday . |
28 | I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch . |
29 | Overall the computational complexity of the system rules it out at the present time for application to the recognition task . |
30 | Out at the frozen garth |