Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thousands of redundancies , in the cause of ‘ economies ’ , owe most to government insistence on having 25 per cent of programmes farmed out to private enterprise with its higher regard for profit than for human dignity . |
| 2 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 3 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 4 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 5 | A 10-FOLD increase in the number of schools opting out of local authority control is likely to be the most dramatic consequence of the Conservatives ’ victory , writes John Clare , Education Editor . |
| 6 | We do not report that 22% of all tonsillectomies for glue ear in Yorkshire were done as day case procedures but that 22% of tonsillectomies carried out as single procedures were . |
| 7 | The headmaster threw back his head and gave out the kind of laugh dished out by medieval jailers to boastful prisoners . |
| 8 | In a report to the committee , technical services director Stewart Henderson said that , because of the unsatisfactory nature of work carried out on public buildings , other contractors had to be called in . |
| 9 | Together they constitute a representative sample of the range of work carried out in English inspired and informed by the broad spectrum of Kristeva 's influential writings , from her early semiotically based work , notably Revolution in Poetic Language , to the later psychoanalytically oriented studies of abjection , love and melancholia . |
| 10 | There were thin elegant ones for the most delicate of lines ranging out to thick ones you could grip hard and slosh around in bold , creamy-coloured strokes . |
| 11 | When negotiations between employers and unions finally broke down strike action was taken with different groups of workers coming out in different parts of the country . |
| 12 | These are numbered , showing details of cash handed out by petty ( minor ) cashiers . |
| 13 | Findings obtained with brain-damaged patients are discussed first , followed by the results of studies carried out with normal subjects . |
| 14 | A fairly neutral background will make any small splash of colour sing out with particular vibrancy and significance . |
| 15 | Hundreds of workers have been sacked , the convener and deputy convener victimized , while millions of pounds went out to private contractors . |
| 16 | That , part of th , of the issue I think about us , perhaps feeling that we do n't have traditions th is that we we are still rediscovering our own history , and I think a lot of traditions grow out of historical events or historical personages . |
| 17 | A number of experiments carried out with normal subjects support the idea that the left hemisphere is dominant for certain aspects of movement control ( Wolff , Hurwitz and Moss , 1977 ; Summers and Sharp , 1979 ; Taylor and Heilman , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Third and this meets the case of development carried out in good faith , or ignorance — application can be made for retrospective permission . |
| 19 | In him the glory of God shines out in human form ( John 1:14 , 2 Cor. 4:4 ) . |
| 20 | Pictures of cats made out of synthetic material and stuck on to plastic plates are available in virtually every store . |
| 21 | But there is unity in diversity and just as the OlHebrews developed their monotheistic religion out of the mish-mash of cults in Palestine , so the unity of the Book of Genesis developed out of sacred writings . |
| 22 | Lofoten is a small group of islands sticking out off Arctic Norway rather like the Outer Hebrides do off Scotland . |
| 23 | If you want something really serious to do , there are lots of causes crying out for energetic , capable people . |
| 24 | The sun grew golden and weak , dew formed on the grass by the benches in front of the Cages , and great clouds of starlings squealed out of empty evening skies and formed and re-formed and grouped yet again round and over the Zoo . |
| 25 | FEARS that a new doping scandal was about to erupt were firmly quashed yesterday by the Jockey Club , which announced that a series of tests carried out on recent race- course flops had proved negative . |
| 26 | Giving up with the Browning , Ace lobbed a grenade at the sedan chair , and was rewarded by the sight of Mait leaping out with surprising agility instants before the chair was blown apart . |
| 27 | There is a ritual in the way in which the pickets rise from the shelter of their lean-to and manoeuvre for position with a handful of police kitted out in fluorescent bibs . |
| 28 | The voters of Cheltenham turn out in large numbers for a General Election -in 1987 the figure was almost 80 percent . |
| 29 | First , it is necessary to take account of changes in the scale of societies , whether brought about by a growth of population or by political and military means , as in the creation of nation states out of numerous smaller units in Western Europe between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see Chapter 5 ) or in the process of imperialist conquest and expansion . |
| 30 | Ramsey felt the same ecstasy , of history speaking out of sanctified stones , in Durham itself . |