Example sentences of "the [num ord] [was/were] [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 2 | Leading after three rounds , the fourth was washed out without a ball being hit . |
| 3 | Ziff-Davis Publishing Co is closing PC Sources and is turning Corporate Computing into a newsletter ; the first was beaten out of the market by another Ziff publication , and the latter was squeezed as Ziff 's personal computer magazines increasingly encroached on its turf . |
| 4 | Two pensioners lost their second home — the first was wiped out by Hurricane Elena in 1985 . |
| 5 | The first was carried out , the second was not , in spite of warnings from the engineers : ‘ The preliminary study has highlighted the high damage costs associated with flooding on rural and urban communities , and the very real possibility of more extensive and serious flooding of Perth occurring in the future . ’ |