Example sentences of "out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The amount that you are assessed to pay is based on what you should be able to afford to take out as a loan . |
| 3 | Jay sketched it out as a glass bead game lavishly illustrated ; the square squalor of modern conurbations as a desperate attempt to assert human life , defying destruction and repelling nature after wars and disasters . |
| 4 | Lucy lit another cigarette , drank her wine , and her voice came out as if she was reading a script . |
| 5 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 6 | Just before the bell on her last day , Sharon and Maria dumped a huge card on her desk : of the Statue of Liberty togged out as Batperson , all welcoming Batcape . |
| 7 | from their first confrontation , when Titania appears wilfully aloof as Oberon tries to exert his authority , to their final reconciliation , they stand out as a true Fairy King and Queen , who are not beyond suffering the moods and emotions of ‘ We mortals here ’ . |
| 8 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 9 | You only had to compare the opening version of Zobi la Mouche ( lumpy drums and shuddering halts ) with the neatly turned performance eventually wheeled out as an encore , to realise how this is a machine which runs the better for being well-oiled . |
| 10 | This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers . |
| 11 | In 1967 Chapman , who had cultivated a conventional image with his ubiquitous tweed jacket and pipe , by his own later admission stunned a party attended by his friends and future Python colleagues by coming out as a homosexual . |
| 12 | In the course of these policies , one or the other restrictive practice has been singled out as the root cause of our ills — resale price maintenance , clearing banks ' cartel , trade unions — the cry has been for their removal . |
| 13 | But the Home Office said last night that the latest releases , after interviews carried out as part of a review of each case , were unconnected with recent events . |
| 14 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 15 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 16 | A leader may start out as a mobilizer but end as a conciliator . |
| 17 | A child whose father had never allowed the tantrums , who had held rational behaviour out as the price of his love . |
| 18 | We did n't make Abisko , chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In a genre noted for its shoddiness and sensationalism , this playing memoir of a season with Millwall in the mid-1970s stands out as a truthful and often painful account of the player 's lot . |
| 21 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 22 | As radio silence was lifted on the company radio net , the Warriors started up and moved out as one . |
| 23 | Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone . |
| 24 | In Brazil the forests are being indiscriminately destroyed and many indigenous peoples , like the Yanomami Indians , are being slowly wiped out as gold prospectors and others invade their lands , poison their rivers , and bring disease and death in their wake . |
| 25 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 26 | The culmination of the drama , an explosion of emotions during a thunderstorm , has parallels in other Rank-financed movies of the time , when the lid comes off and all the emotions that have been barely repressed throughout the film come pouring out as if from some Pandora 's box . |
| 27 | Dai Qing 's name was singled out as one of the ‘ tiny handful of people ’ who had ‘ colluded with foreign forces , ganged up among themselves at home and made ideological , public opinion and organisational preparations for years to stir up turmoil in China , overthrow the leadership of the Communist Party and subvert the socialist people 's republic . ’ |
| 28 | Construction could be caried out as a joint venture with the new state-owned company set up to operate all existing nuclear plant . |
| 29 | Rosalind Belben 's ‘ My sole feeling of happiness lies in the fact that no one knows where I am ’ stands out as a brilliant piece of writing , but the stories by Alison Fell , Tom Wakefield , Ian Breakwell , and Elizabeth Cook are also noteworthy , particularly the last about two women who send each other erotic messages by leaving little bite-marks on their mutual man 's body . |
| 30 | Dick was indentured to the Company in 1917 , ‘ admitted , allowed , and registered ’ to the Freemen in 1933 , became waterman to Thames RC in 1931 after starting out as a boatbuilder , became a Waterman to Her Majesty in 1953 , and an Extra Waterman to Her Majesty in 1967 . |