Example sentences of "to drive out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snipers , who fired directly on us despite the presence of an army officer , appeared determined to drive out a team which had come to investigate rumours of a massacre of Muslim women and children by Serbs . |
| 2 | To drive out a sick individual is sometimes advantageous , because the sickness may be infectious . |
| 3 | Furthermore , price-cutting can in some circumstances be anticompetitive : predatory pricing to drive out a rival or an entrant , or low prices seeking to mislead entrants about the efficiency of the incumbent firms are cases in point ( Milgrom and Roberts , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Personalities , presentational skills , prejudices , and political dogmas all play their part , but the working of the market-place helps the coinage of sound argument to drive out the counterfeit of special pleading . |
| 5 | The new Elizabethan age was to drive out the age of austerity . |
| 6 | The defenders of the neighbourhood we visited , known as Popavgaj , said the Serbs launched the assault to drive out the inhabitants and gain a foothold in Sarajevo 's eastern hilltop trenches . |
| 7 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
| 8 | The great hero Sigmar first united the men of the middle Old World into the Empire , and to do so he had to drive out the Orcs and Goblins that lived there . |
| 9 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |
| 10 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 11 | The fountain of sparks died ; he staggered , swinging his head hack and forth as if to drive out the pain . |
| 12 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 13 | That is why I stooped to traffic with the Man-greedy Frost Giantess , and why I intrigued with her to drive out the Gruagach and why I helped the Gruagach to vanquish the High King and take Tara . ’ |
| 14 | The bombardment of chilly droplets seemed to drive out the blackness of her thoughts . |
| 15 | To them its power to revive tired bodies and falling spirits , to drive out the chill and rekindle hope was a gift direct from God … which may not be entirely fanciful , since the art of distilling is said to have been brought to Scotland by the first Christian missionary monks . |
| 16 | They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control . |
| 17 | Growing unemployment was blamed for a campaign of violence by Tuvan militants intended to drive out the Russian population , which had arrived mostly in recent decades to exploit Tuva 's mineral wealth and virgin farmland ( Tuva joined the Soviet Union only in 1944 , having been previously the nominally independent state of Tannu-Tuva ) . |
| 18 | In a statement broadcast by Radio Free Bougainville and repeated by Radio Australia , a BRA spokesman vowed to drive out the invasion force . |
| 19 | The Irish , I am told , are everywhere beginning to drive out the Negroes from domestic service … |
| 20 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 21 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |