Example sentences of "of [v-ing] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits of contracting out at younger ages stem from the fact that the flat-rate rebate is based on an average of the costs of providing benefits for all age groups . |
| 2 | We saw in Chapter 6 that fixed-term contracts offer one , strictly limited , means of contracting out of statutory rights . |
| 3 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 4 | While rejecting the mechanistic connection of Quinney and Jankovic , one can argue that in times of economic crisis , typified by rising levels of unemployment , imprisonment does serve an important social control function as a constant reminder to those not in work of the consequences of stepping out of line . |
| 5 | If Coventry lad Jimmy McGee ever again thinks of stepping out of his class , the best advice anybody can give him is be sure to step down . |
| 6 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
| 7 | Eighteen years away from a stage , eighteen years and she 'd forgotten until now that terrifying gut-wrenching dread of stepping out in front of several hundred people and making a total fool of yourself . |
| 8 | The plunge in new car sales in Britain finally showed signs of bottoming out in September . |
| 9 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 10 | Engineers at British Steel have reacted warily to comments by Ian MacGregor , the corporation 's chairman , about the possibility of bringing out of mothballs two direct-reduction ironmaking plants in Scotland . |
| 11 | She paints hearts in lots of different colours and says she has no intention of branching out into other organs of the body . |
| 12 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 13 | Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little , it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again . |
| 14 | In present times the system is in danger of dying out in the Point district , as so many of the men and women have regular employment in town . |
| 15 | It is in imminent danger of dying out from its last remaining stronghold — Redgrave and South Lopham Fen in Suffolk — due largely to the fact that a nearby borehole drilled by the Suffolk Water Company is drying out the ground . |
| 16 | The Cardiff centre was so disillusioned after the 63-6 thrashing by Australia in Brisbane 17 months ago that he was on the verge of walking out on his country . |
| 17 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 18 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |
| 19 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |
| 20 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 21 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 22 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
| 23 | What really moved the men was the ignition of the class war , the excitement of climbing out of the trenches for the long march against the class enemy . |
| 24 | Such begins with the voice in the first-person describing the process of climbing out of his coffin into an unknown world of orbits and ellipses . |
| 25 | Throughout pregnancy I shall practise crouching on the dusty Axminster in my faded Laura Ashley smock while thinking of opening out like a flower . |
| 26 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 27 | Akzo , the Dutch multinational chemical company , was found to have abused its dominant position in a particular chemical market by reducing its prices with the objective of driving out of business a competitor in the market in which Akzo held a dominant position . |
| 28 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 29 | The first direction to think of driving out of Argelés is of course to the south . |
| 30 | And that 's the kind of singling out of one group of workers , and making a special case for them , that she really disapproved of . |