Example sentences of "came out on [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nails took such a proposition in his stride , unworried ; Jazz , although slightly apprehensive , was keen because swimming was the discipline he most enjoyed and was making the best progress in ; only Hoomey 's eyes came out on stalks at the presumption . |
2 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
3 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
4 | From 7 April 1916 , South Metropolitan staff came out on strike against the employment of women drivers . |
5 | There were bitter struggles in the courts on the right to strike and the power of trade unions , which led to the creation of the Labour Party , with fearful signs of a new and radical anger among the working class through and beyond the strike-bound year of 1911 when even schoolchildren came out on strike in some districts , ‘ for shorter hours and no stick ’ . |
6 | Not only did they get a promise from the secretary of the men 's union that they would be paid full wages by the union if they came out on strike ( unusual , if not unprecedented for non-members ) but the agreement subsequently signed with Neill 's management included some improvements in their piece rates . |
7 | The student body thereupon came out on strike . |
8 | Well if he came out on strike with us erm and we won if we won everything we g he 'd gain nothing in the end cos he 's in another section . |
9 | When the Lenin shipyard came out on strike in August 1980 Walesa joined and was instrumental in extending the action beyond the plant through the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee ( MKS ) , of which he became chairman . |
10 | Five enterprises in Yeltsin 's home town of Sverdlovsk came out on strike . |
11 | When you first erm when you first came out on strike . |
12 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
13 | They the da the harbour master 's men at the lock gates came out on strike . |
14 | After discussions , Martin Lynch 's name came out on top of the list . ’ |
15 | It was always the territory owner who ( literally ) came out on top . |
16 | second time around , by chance or otherwise , as animals further evolved to repopulate the Earth , the mammals came out on top ( although a case can be made that it was really the insects that came out on top ! ) |
17 | second time around , by chance or otherwise , as animals further evolved to repopulate the Earth , the mammals came out on top ( although a case can be made that it was really the insects that came out on top ! ) |
18 | They came out on top by just eight points from the Ford Hailwood-Liverpool club , who had arrived with a strong squad and a determined look in their eyes . |
19 | She was ridden by Pat Eddery over seven furlongs , but it was Willie Ryan 's mount Musicale , who came out on top . |
20 | This England did superbly and came out on top . |
21 | According to sources , a user evaluating IBM 's 100 SPECmark-rated RS/6000 Model 970 against similarly configured Hewlett-Packard Co PA-RISC 7100 and DEC Alpha systems found that in application performance comparisons the RS/6000 came out on top , followed by the HP and DEC boxes , though there was some variation according to job mix . |
22 | Interestingly , when we tested slimming clubs recently , it was also Slimmer 's World that came out on top . |
23 | And er the British catapult came out on top . |
24 | It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway . |
25 | My father walked out on my mother when I was seven , so the English influence came out on top from then on . ’ |
26 | Despite some very good scores and striking on the night AIB Bank , Bindon Street , Ennis came out on top followed by their colleagues , AIB Bank , 63 O'Connell St. , Limerick in second place . |
27 | And the communications specialists came out on top — by just seven points — 55-47 . |
28 | Stoddard Carpets eventually came out on top in this ten man team Stableford Competition . |
29 | Well no surprise at who came out on top then . |
30 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |