Example sentences of "which [verb] out [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows the company 's jobs-for-life Rover Tomorrow deal signed earlier this year , which ruled out compulsory redundancies . |
| 2 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 3 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 4 | It was other evidence which ruled out this model . |
| 5 | The first task was to finish putting together the ‘ Darlington Drinker ’ , a local magazine which goes out five or six times a year to pubs around the area . |
| 6 | Leigh is sitting in the sunshine in Spain , taking a break from filming a new series of his BBC TV drama Kinsey , which goes out next month . |
| 7 | The spatial differentials are , however , most marked at the local scales which pick out residential clusters with distinctive social mixes . |
| 8 | The team plan to develop classifications of socio-economic circumstances which pick out those most ( and least ) at risk of death or low birthright . |
| 9 | The tenant should be careful also not to agree a too restrictive period of time in which to carry out remedial works . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a bit like blackmail , especially the part which points out all the money raised would be spent in their hospital . ’ |
| 11 | They should also make us determined to prevent the conditions which bring out this aspect of our nature . |
| 12 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 13 | An epidemic which wiped out hundreds of dolphins in the Mediterranean last year seems to have reappeared . |
| 14 | Condemned as cowards , deserters , they were shot by their own side in a war which wiped out much of a generation . |
| 15 | Roderick O'Sullivan , who has carried out research for programmes such as Channel Four 's Fragile Earth , said he was concerned that a mystery disease which wiped out half the swan population at the bay last winter had re-emerged . |
| 16 | The most spectacular known to me in Europe were the great rock-falls that occurred from tile sheer face of Ramnefjell ( Raven Mountain ) into Loenfjord in central Norway in 1905 and 1936 , producing waves which wiped out local communities and carried a steamer a considerable distance inland . |
| 17 | Well I do n't know which turns out best |
| 18 | So in all these kinds of different ways , religion provides succour erm , gratification and er , is the fulfilment of people 's wishes , particularly th their frustrations , their erm , feelings of er being the victims as it were , of the world , can be satisfied to some extent by religious belief , which holds out some , some prospect of and hope , at least in the afterlife , if not , if not in this life . |
| 19 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 20 | And Jesus said that God 's dominion , the rule of Heaven , is something like a mustard seed which starts out tiny and ends up big . |
| 21 | What had offended the Government was an issue of the paper which came out two days before Christmas 1967 . |
| 22 | There 's a couple of enlarged pages from Christian Aid book , Raw Deal , Trade and the World 's Poor , which came out last year ? |
| 23 | I had a beauty I had a run there I had about four in a row which came out whole , but now I 'm getting crushed nuts |
| 24 | A FIREWORK show which fizzled out two years ago will burst back to life tomorrow night . |
| 25 | The army appeared to have achieved their aim with the notorious Operation Phoenix aerial bombardment campaign of January 1986 which drove out all civilians from the area . |
| 26 | ‘ We are looking for things like active galactic nuclei which put out tremendous energies in neutrinos . ’ |
| 27 | Ruth was a living plant which put out stained-glass flowers . |
| 28 | The battery of questions is seeded with a selection which catch out those who try to guess the ‘ right ’ answer . |
| 29 | Try to choose heaters which give out enough heat to suit the size of the room . |
| 30 | Immunotherapy depends on blocking the body 's ‘ killer cells ’ which wipe out any foreign agents — such as germs and viruses — that do n't belong there . |