Example sentences of "out at the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 . ’
4 But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Looking out at the dark motorway strip , she decided she hated Damian Flint .
9 On the top floor of 32 , Mrs Mackintosh stared nervously out at the dark street .
10 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 ’ .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 He has to get the barley , go out at the right time and sow it .
15 ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time .
16 He stared out at the dappled sky , trying to remember .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch .
23 Overall the computational complexity of the system rules it out at the present time for application to the recognition task .
24 Out at the frozen garth
25 It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed .
26 The tram schoogled away again , and Maggie gazed eagerly out at the passing scene .
27 Folly stared blankly out at the speeding countryside and tried to work out what her strategy should be .
28 Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post .
29 Fine cuts are more effective than heavy ones which tend to break out at the far corner .
30 Struck out at the clever boy who said he was right
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