Example sentences of "out [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Tencel , Courtaulds ' new cellulosic fibre , Italy has been singled out as a prime target in Europe because of the size , quality and design strength of its textile industry . |
| 2 | It is interesting to note , however , how strong the price was in the final quarter of the year , when Houghton Mifflin was singled out as a prime beneficiary of Clinton-inspired support for education as well as the more favourable demographic trends . |
| 3 | What started out as a loyal band of Kylie watchers has now grown into a legion of Wannabes : teenage girls who spend all their waking hours trying to dress , talk and sing like Kylie . |
| 4 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 5 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 6 | Pension abatement has been singled out as a blatant piece of age discrimination that is obsolete and should be abolished . |
| 7 | In retrospect Bukharin 's ‘ Notes of An Economist ’ stand out as a clearsighted warning against the headlong rush to industrialisation — without due regard to proportionality — that was embarked upon with the FFYP . |
| 8 | Lingering in the background was the English claim to overlordship of Scotland , occasionally dragged out as a diplomatic counter to Scottish military ambitions on England 's northern border ; but these neither seriously interrupted the peace between the two countries nor undermined Scotland 's status as an independent kingdom . |
| 9 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 10 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 11 | An invention that started out as a simple toy for children grew over the years to become a lifetime hobby for millions of people . |
| 12 | Rameau laid this out as a simple trio for first and second violins and continuo , with flutes doubling the firsts in unison . |
| 13 | Construction could be caried out as a joint venture with the new state-owned company set up to operate all existing nuclear plant . |
| 14 | Even so , the Bosnian Serbs ' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan on May 6th stands out as a spectacular triumph of greed and folly over common sense . |
| 15 | Rosalind Belben 's ‘ My sole feeling of happiness lies in the fact that no one knows where I am ’ stands out as a brilliant piece of writing , but the stories by Alison Fell , Tom Wakefield , Ian Breakwell , and Elizabeth Cook are also noteworthy , particularly the last about two women who send each other erotic messages by leaving little bite-marks on their mutual man 's body . |
| 16 | The ( nominally left-wing ) Sinhala guerrilla Janatha Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP — People 's Liberation Front ) was effectively wiped out as a serious threat by ruthless army action in southern areas in late 1989 and early 1990 [ see pp. 37042 ; 37353 ] . |
| 17 | The ‘ victory ’ rally in Sheffield was picked out as a turning point in the party 's fortunes . |
| 18 | The check is carried out as a preliminary step within option 1.5.2 , Prepare Package for Approval . |
| 19 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 20 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 21 | One sizeable group pulled out as a direct result of government policy , however : the savings and loans , or thrifts . |
| 22 | However , the NACAB information system was singled out as a basic bench-mark for what should constitute an adequate information resource in a generalist advice agency . |
| 23 | While a barred fish is inconspicuous against a striped , mottled , or blotched background such as vegetation , stones , roots etc , or areas of light and shade , a white , yellow , or orange fish will stand out as a sitting target for any passing predator . |
| 24 | The courtyard in the centre was often laid out as a formal garden with sometimes a fountain and a statue to a Roman God . |
| 25 | From his origins in Protestant East Belfast , his exhilarating ball control and deceptive change of pace marked him out as a unique prospect in an area accustomed to discovering football talent . |
| 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 | The pivotal early scene in The Buddha of Suburbia ( Faber & Faber , 2 April , £12.99 ) started out as a short story in the TLS . |
| 28 | In a while we 'll be taking a look around the show , and finding out about a traditional breed of sheep and a very small breed of cattle . |
| 29 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 30 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |