Example sentences of "which [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | An epidemic which wiped out hundreds of dolphins in the Mediterranean last year seems to have reappeared . |
| 7 | Condemned as cowards , deserters , they were shot by their own side in a war which wiped out much of a generation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What had offended the Government was an issue of the paper which came out two days before Christmas 1967 . |
| 11 | There 's a couple of enlarged pages from Christian Aid book , Raw Deal , Trade and the World 's Poor , which came out last year ? |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | A FIREWORK show which fizzled out two years ago will burst back to life tomorrow night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them . |
| 16 | She seemed to have more energy as a result , but she developed nettle-rash and a vaginal discharge , which turned out to-be due to thrush ( Candida infection ) . |
| 17 | Here in the basement and behind Mr Pegg was Bill Joyner and his wrapping counter , beyond which roared the mighty Goss Printing Press which poured out 300 copies of the 16-page daily every minute . |
| 18 | She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground . |
| 19 | She had a bun of hair at her nape from which stuck out carved hairpins , thinner than split matchsticks . |
| 20 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 21 | This leaves just two aircraft out working : the Gazelle Which went out this morning , and a Scout which is out practising abseiling drills on the far side of the airfield . |
| 22 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 23 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 24 | The contract to service the ski jump is a big boost for A5 Hydraulics a co-operative five-man company which bought out Agricultural and Industrial Hydraulics for £70,000 last year . |
| 25 | Nearly two decades later his installation Art Show at the Centre Pompidou foregrounded figures with tape decks for hearts , which gave out phoney art jargon , with hot air literally coming out of the figures ’ vents ( Rickey 1983 ) . |
| 26 | In 1931 he became manager and chief engineer of the traction department , which carried out many important railway electrification schemes , including those of the Southern Railway , New Zealand government railways , Great Indian Peninsular Railway , Danish state railways , and the Post Office electric railway in London . |
| 27 | Moreover , in 2 Commando which carried out this raid , there was , in its commanding officer 's words ‘ an extra scruple of endurance ’ that turned the seemingly impossible into the possible . |
| 28 | The result was that the all-union bodies which carried out these functions were seen as Russian bodies , and Russians took the blame for their shortcomings ; while Russia itself , one of the areas whose numbers had been increasing most rapidly before the revolution , was threatened with depopulation . |
| 29 | Caterham does not have copyright on the Seven 's basic , long-bodied shape , which ran out several years ago , but it has sued companies that indulge in ‘ passing off ’ . |
| 30 | In fact , looking back at the affair , the only thing which stood out unequivocal and substantial was my great whitebound digit which had hovered constantly over the scene , almost taking on a personality and significance of its own . |