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 .
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