Example sentences of "out [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a gentleman who started out as a co-pilot in the Five-Seventieth squadron . |
| 2 | Erm mm I ca n't remember , Alan and Josie 's daughter down the road , erm she passed out as a nurse from Queens a while ago and you know what students are in general , nurses in particular , there was , you would expect , one hell of a party when the exam results were public what came out of the the party was when she got a job as a nurse . |
| 3 | He started out as a full-back with Bath and looked set for the glittering prizes . |
| 4 | I took them out as a favour to my employees . ’ |
| 5 | The KPMG approval process for investment advertisements issued on behalf of clients ( not on the firm 's own behalf ) is set out as a flowchart in Appendix 4 . |
| 6 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 7 | In 1862 he received a commission from the town of Preston to design a series of parks , to be laid out as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine ; Moor Park , Miller Park , and Avenham Park were eventually opened in 1867 . |
| 8 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 9 | Boucicault , for instance , author of The Colleen Bawn , The Shaughraun and many other classic Victorian melodramas , started out as a clerk in the Brewery at St. James 's Gate . |
| 10 | One of the innovatory features of the Act is that the holder of the office it sets up — the Data Protection Registrar — has the task of applying a set of principles — the Data Protection Principles , set out as a Schedule to the Act . |
| 11 | This will probably come out as a mixture of physical symptoms , environmental , and individual stresses . |
| 12 | Over the course of the period between 1529 and 1559 , the English church experienced a number of dramatic changes in its nature and status ; starting out as a branch of the international Roman Catholic church , it moved to become first an independent , schismatic Catholic church , and later a unique , hybrid Protestant church . |
| 13 | I was packing my kit when it dawned on me that the squad session would be over before I got there and that I would be concerned mainly with being kitted out as a member of the World Cup squad ’ . |
| 14 | Where steps are not taken to avoid such holding out , the salaried partner has the same professional responsibilities as a full partner to ensure that his firm complies with the Indemnity Insurance Rules ( under which salaried partners are treated as principals ) and the Accounts Rules ( see Chapter 12 ) ; and in theory the Inland Revenue could look to a salaried partner who is held out as a member of the firm for payment of income tax payable in respect of its profits , though in practice such a claim is unlikely . |
| 15 | It is important to ensure that only current partners appear as lessees/trustees of partnership premises , if only to avoid any possibility that a retired partner who has not been duly replaced on the title could be regarded as still being held out as a member of the firm . |
| 16 | ‘ One of my regrets is leaving this project just as it has started to get off the ground , ’ said Det Insp Williams , who started out as a PC in the Cheshire Constabulary in 1963 . |
| 17 | Thus , when Hitler landed at Danzig 's Saspe airfield on a whistle-stop tour of the east for his 1932 election campaign , the entire Danzig SA , along with a uniformed company of the local police force , turned out as a guard of honour . |
| 18 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
| 19 | Cut off from the world for a weekend , what started out as a bit of a laugh for Gordon , Angus , Roy and Neville turns into a carnival of recrimination , backbiting , French cricket and sausages . |
| 20 | He often came out as a bit of a bighead and , accused of this at the time , took a tape-measure and agreed that his head had indeed expanded by one-eighth of an inch since leaving Wales . |
| 21 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 22 | What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion . |
| 23 | ‘ It is already now clear that the 1980s will stand out as a decade of impressive improvement in economic performance , reversing a long-term trend of decline relative to other member countries . ’ |
| 24 | Finally , it could be carried out as a continuation of the R & D activities of a firm acquired abroad . |
| 25 | In the original portrait it could be vaguely made out as a kind of craggy wild place ; in this photographic reproduction it was no more than thickenings and glimmerings in the black . |
| 26 | The centre of the room was fitted out as a kind of sitting-room and study . |
| 27 | In effect , the transplant hospital , which started out as a centre for wounded Australian troops in the First World War and was then used as a TB sanatorium , exists in its own world , untainted by the big bad world outside . |
| 28 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 29 | A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens . |
| 30 | PAINT could be on the way out as a way of marking lines on roads . |