Example sentences of "out by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her account is still an anecdotal one , and has not always been borne out by empirical research . |
| 2 | As we shall see , this prediction is being borne out by current work on the visual cortex . |
| 3 | And in 1942 the first major bombings of German cities were carried out by allied air flotillas , and as the Luftwaffe lost control of the skies many Germans began to experience with dread the sort of terror-bombing which their own airforce had inflicted on numerous European cities since 1939 and which the allies were now returning with immeasurably greater force and concentration . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Department of Health was urging caterers to adopt total quality management systems in order to avoid being caught out by environmental health officers . |
| 5 | A minor road skirts its western base but a direct climb from it is ruled out by unremitting steepness and a barrier of rocky buttresses , the ascent usually being made over gentler ground from the north . |
| 6 | Because disposal of industrial waste is carried out by private enterprise with the sole interest of making a profit , the temptation to dodge intricate and often expensive safety precautions is evident . |
| 7 | The committee takes the view that government research projects carried out by private industry have a better chance of leading to commercial rewards in terms of new products and processes . |
| 8 | One per cent of the sample had puffed their first fag by the age of four , but the bulk of experimentation is carried out by 9–12 year olds . |
| 9 | This is a purely theoretical stance used by economists not borne out by practical experience of how systems will work . |
| 10 | These functions were previously carried out by regional water boards and local drainage authorities . |
| 11 | The number of audits carried out by each firm was taken from our database at 1992 . |
| 12 | Zooming is carried out by repeating pixel values , so that zooming by a factor of four implies that each pixel value in the memory bank or banks is repeated four times , and each line of the image is also repeated four times . |
| 13 | The result was to move towards increasing the secondary school population , especially from the poor but intelligent children kept out by existing provision . |
| 14 | Filing requirements still apply when , say , the articles are altered informally , and an agm must still be held unless the company has opted out by elective resolution . |
| 15 | We can develop in Europe only within the guidelines set out by Central Government , a Government quite clear that a joining of the attitudes and minds is desirable , not federalism . |
| 16 | These sorts of points could be brought out by oral work , or through role-play . |
| 17 | I have managed to obtain a copy of a survey carried out by final year students from Manchester Polytechnic in 1984 . |
| 18 | It looks very much as though this option was ruled out by entrenched feeling on the men 's side and inadequate appreciation of their position by the women . |
| 19 | The early skills were brought by French exiles , lured by high rates of pay or driven out by religious persecution ; labour was provided by the considerable fund of casual workers who dragged a living from squatting in the woods and heaths . |
| 20 | There are also clear indications that although the assassinations may have been carried out by low-ranking army officers the orders came from the military high command . |
| 21 | But instead , the company found itself unable to deliver the vehicles and claimed it was caught out by fluctuating exchange rates . |
| 22 | But instead of hearing their controllers , drivers on the 36 bus route could find themselves permanently tuned into Johnny Halliday , or similar Muzak , being pumped out by continental radio stations . |
| 23 | To start with you will try to note every phonetic variation but gradually your transcription will become " broader " , that is , you will realise or find out by systematic analysis that , for example , all the voiceless alveolar stops on the language are aspirated and therefore there is no need to keep writing [ th ] every time , [ t ] is enough . |
| 24 | Any assistance given was based on a survey of house prices carried out by Black Horse Relocation . |
| 25 | But you 're gon na be next if you do n't pull something out by second show Saturday yourself . |
| 26 | The live-and-let-live system could have been worked out by verbal negotiation , by conscious strategists bargaining round a table . |
| 27 | Mr Murphy 's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid . |
| 28 | A straw poll carried out by one objector in the centre of Pontypool had shown 83 per cent against Hinkley C. |
| 29 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 30 | Incredibly , Muckamore lost out by one run to lowly Cregagh when seemingly in command while Holywood then lost to Carrick , being bowled out for 59 . |