Example sentences of "out [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only had to compare the opening version of Zobi la Mouche ( lumpy drums and shuddering halts ) with the neatly turned performance eventually wheeled out as an encore , to realise how this is a machine which runs the better for being well-oiled . |
| 2 | It is just this denial of anything beyond what is directly given in experience that marks Berkeley out as an empiricist . |
| 3 | What started out as an intention by the authors of Learning through Drama to express ‘ a specific point of view ’ ( p. 8 ) has apparently become the only authoritative reference ! |
| 4 | Once they are included in the explanation participation drops out as an inessential part of many consent situations . |
| 5 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 6 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 7 | A school that , though equipped with a sixth form , did not have good A level results could be picked out as an inefficient school . |
| 8 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 9 | The operation can be carried out as an outpatient procedure in a clinic , hospital or in some specially-equipped GP surgeries . |
| 10 | Baling out over Malta had now become a somewhat risky business , as Doug Whitney recalls : ‘ They ( the Maltese ) were so bitter about the bombing that they inclined to treat anyone baling out as an enemy and this became so bad we all carried revolvers to protect ourselves until we could convince them otherwise . |
| 11 | Fullback Marty Roebuck could also miss out as an ankle operation is likely to sideline him for six to seven weeks . |
| 12 | They feared that , without proper cover , the City would lose out as an international financial centre as large overseas institutions moved their European offices to less-exposed capitals . |
| 13 | But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it . |
| 14 | In Taylor 's reign , only Trevor Steven 's effort in Russia earlier this year from a Nigel Clough pass stands out as an example . |
| 15 | Lorenzo da Ponte ( 1749–1838 ) , the son of a converted Jewish tanner , started out as an ordained priest , but any hopes of a successful career in that direction were scotched by his uncontrollably amorous nature . |
| 16 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 17 | Iron shortage shows out as an overall pale colouring in the leaves . |
| 18 | Therefore a carbonaceous asteroid , although unlikely , can not be ruled out as an explanation of the Tunguska event . |
| 19 | Many of the sonnets are wonderfully generous poems ; they give meaning and beauty ’ The generosity resides in the act of celebration , a process by which the Poet can fade himself out as an actor , reducing himself to the role of recording agent . |
| 20 | I am told that with good binoculars ( presumably × 12 or more ) it can be made out as an aura of soft light surrounding the cluster , but I have had no success myself . |
| 21 | In a rather confused , uncertain , period Reagan stood out as an upbeat , optimistic candidate who , despite his failings , had an easily understood programme and a clear sense of the direction in which he would take his country , if given the opportunity . |
| 22 | At first glance only his sword and the shoulder straps attached to his shirt mark him out as an officer . |
| 23 | She was not looking forward to her coming out as an Italian girl , but she was determined not to let herself get married early . |
| 24 | Tony Bottoms ( 1983 : 176–7 ) has compared this notion to that of the ‘ sin-bin ’ in ice hockey : the player who has committed a foul is excluded ( or ‘ disqualified ’ ) from the game for a while and symbolically marked out as an offender , but after a term of fixed duration the player is allowed to rejoin the game as a full participant or ‘ requalified subject ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 26 | The battle was fought out as an intense personal rivalry between Simon and the new permanent secretary to the Local Government Board , John Lambert . |
| 27 | It all started out as an adventure . |
| 28 | His Quaker father started out as an illiterate nailer at Stourbridge , but , through thrift and considerable business acumen , became a manufacturer of nails on the putting-out system , an ironmonger , and an owner of iron-refining works . |
| 29 | In both fields he was an individualist , and in both his successes mark him out as an artist of power and originality . |
| 30 | If Daine 's Dream adheres to the formulae , then that reads out as an unacceptable risk to me . ’ |