Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clean , even the wheels were clean , as if it were put out on a drive on Sundays and given the old once-over like the family car . |
| 2 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 3 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 4 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 5 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 6 | And that in fact was , produced a split vote in the police authority fifty fifty , and it , it was chucked out by the chairman 's casting vote . |
| 7 | the cuistot , ravitailleur , or homme-soupe , as the ration parties were variously called , in that it was played out in the solitariness of night . |
| 8 | There was indeed , an air about the place : it was moving out of the west and by the late afternoon , gusting in winds up to 40 miles per hour , would turn over benches . |
| 9 | It was pointed out to the young man that Philip was the chairman of CUM . |
| 10 | It was pointed out to the Special Branch man behind the screen that the police team investigating the murders had no knowledge of his information and he was asked why he had not passed it to them . |
| 11 | When it was pointed out to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) that his taxes would rise , the right hon. and learned Gentleman seemed surprised : what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , in effect , was that taxes under Labour would ’ only ’ rise higher than those in any other G7 country — lower , perhaps , than taxes in Albania , but higher than those of all our competitors . |
| 12 | The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’ |
| 13 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 14 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 15 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 16 | Kuwait and the UAE in particular were reported to have exceeded their quotas during 1989 , and it was pointed out in the press that apart from these two countries , together with Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia , the other eight OPEC members were currently producing at or around their ceiling capacity , so that any further additions to output would come from those five major Gulf producers . |
| 17 | It was pointed out by a number of respondents that some lenders already include requirements of this kind in their instructions to solicitors . |
| 18 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 19 | But the Scots have always had a deep-rooted sense of inferiority about the English : it was born out of the defeat of the '45 and the surrender of 1707 and , as Boswell and others had observed with chagrin and sometimes rage , the condescension and contempt of the English towards the Scots and their impossible tongue . |
| 20 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 21 | The last point , far from being the hardest on which to reach agreement , was the easiest : it was cleared out of the way at the very beginning , Gandhi accepting Irwin 's formulation without demur and apparently feeling no discomfort at disregarding what he knew to be the views of the Congress Working Committee . |
| 22 | The rational company would cash in its profits on the speculation — and still cut production and investment as it was priced out of the US market . |
| 23 | Of course the low percentage achievement does in part reflect the very high targets that were set as the plan was revised upwards during the course of the period , and it was carried out under the slogan of ‘ the five year plan in four years ’ . |
| 24 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 25 | It was carried out on the orders of Salim Al-Makesh to give himself time to flee the terrorist base before Delta destroyed it . ’ |
| 26 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 27 | Prior to this it was carried out by the Directorship-general of Fine Arts , Academies and Libraries , part of the Ministry of Education . |
| 28 | Legislation requiring the registration of houses taking children for adoption followed , but respectable working class women resented this inspection , especially when it was carried out by the Poor Law Relieving Officer . |
| 29 | In the past a private sector proposal had to demonstrate that funding costs would be less than if it was carried out by the Government . |
| 30 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |