Example sentences of "were not [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1940s Otto J. Schmidt said that the planets were not created out of spun-off solar material but were ‘ captured ’ by the Sun from clouds of space dust . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 4 | For the first six years , it will give an additional 2 per cent if you were not contracted out of SERPS already . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock argued that most pay structures were not worked out by reference to the lowest-paid . |
| 6 | ’ The great organisations of the masses … in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard … the new organisations will come as Lilburnes Leveller Party came , as the sections and popular societies of Paris in 1793 , as the Commune in 1871 and the Soviets in 1905 , with not a single soul having any concrete ideas about them until they appeared in all their power and glory ’ . |
| 7 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me told that if things were not sorted out by tomorrow , the company would cease trading and I do really fear that this is the end . |
| 8 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me if things were not sorted out by tomorrow the company would cease trading and I do really fear this is the end . |
| 9 | He said the next government , whatever its colour , must make attempts to improve the legal system so that youngsters were not allowed out on bail to commit more offences . |
| 10 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 11 | While accepting in principle the need to delegate , her inner fury , not always expressed , if something were not carried out to her wishes , was great . |
| 12 | Similarly , interviews with pupils are included but were not carried out on a systematic basis and the results have not been correlated with pupils ' GT4 scores . |
| 13 | Thus , we would undoubtedly feel less happy if political polls were not carried out by independent agencies . |
| 14 | Lord Taylor said the assaults on Donna King aged twenty six were not carried out in rage , they were coolly deliberate and inflicted by way of punishment . |
| 15 | So no voter who gave Craig a second preference could be sure that it would actually be registered , for his paper could be one of the 3,813 — 1,476 = 2,337 that were not picked out for transfer . |