Example sentences of "out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exigent journalist Lynn Barber , in her collection of interviews Mostly Men , singles him out as the sole male representative of a type she describes as ‘ nice , straightforward , feet on the ground ’ . |
| 2 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 3 | It 's a well-founded faith he has developed since Michelin this year singled him out as the only French chef worthy of upgrading to the coveted three-star accolade . |
| 4 | This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers . |
| 5 | He had always dreaded being singled out as the only boy in the school with nits , a solitary outcast with a shaved head . |
| 6 | Eurotunnel , where fears of another refinancing continued to eat away at the share price , and MEPC stood out as the only Footsie stocks to fall , off 1 at 402p and 2 at 286p respectively . |
| 7 | Of our three countries , Kenya stands out as the only one which has tried to manage economic development and contain inflation by selective price controls on individual items . |
| 8 | But work has to be planned with those aims as clearly spelt out as the financial or operational objectives . |
| 9 | There is nothing about this combination of themes which marks it out as the exclusive preserve of the right . |
| 10 | The capture of inert gases from the PFM can not by any plausible means lead to this discrepancy and therefore this is ruled out as the major mechanism by which these planets acquired these inert gases . |
| 11 | In other words , the power of the Spirit is specifically set out as the energising principle in Jesus ' healing ministry |
| 12 | The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 . |
| 13 | That day still stands out as the greatest day in my football life . ’ |
| 14 | Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ , a brief moment in his two-hour speech , was singled out as the central point of the newsreel coverage on 3 February . |
| 15 | From his point of view , Modernism as a sub-species of romantic anti-capitalism is one partial moment in the rejection of the consequences of Enlightenment properly understood : understood , that is , in terms of a Marxism which is itself held out as the genuine heir to the Enlightenment narrative of emancipation and its romantic critique . |
| 16 | Good social conditions , good living conditions , full employment , unified State and government , and order and security were the attributes , in that order , picked out as the best thing about National Socialism . |
| 17 | There were some other guys featured but I definitely picked him out as the best . ’ |
| 18 | Woodward came out as the two men turned and walked away in step . |
| 19 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 20 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 21 | LINFORD Christie will quit athletics in two years ' time — aiming to bow out as the undisputed No 1 sprinter in the world . |
| 22 | LINFORD Christie will quit athletics in two years ' time — aiming to bow out as the undisputed No 1 sprinter in the world , writes David Harrison . |
| 23 | mark the last 250 years out as the latest revolution in the English landscape . |
| 24 | Japanese houses have dropped out as the sinking Tokyo stockmarket drags down their capital ; Nomura also lost face when the issue that it lead-managed last year for GPA , an Irish aircraft-leasing firm , fell through . |
| 25 | Verses 8–10 : if a man died childless , his brother was duty bound to raise heirs to him by his widow ( set out as the Levirate law , Deuteronomy 25:5 ) . |
| 26 | Then my buddy pointed him out as the crazy maniac making the calls . |
| 27 | sort of even , even like sixty , eighty people you can lay one of these raised areas out as the big cold buffet area |
| 28 | Although in that same table value for money stands out as the biggest area of dissatisfaction , only a minority of 16 per cent rated it negatively . |
| 29 | Seacombe is singled out as the biggest loss-maker , ahead of Liverpool 's Pier Head and Woodside in Birkenhead . |
| 30 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |