Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victims singled out for assassination by the IRA have ranged from senior managers to builder 's labourers . |
| 2 | Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read . |
| 3 | She 'd been shaken rudely out of sleep by the sound of peremptory knocking on the back door of the farmhouse , at what felt like the crack of dawn . |
| 4 | But at least there is near unanimity that we really will be out of recession by the end of the year . |
| 5 | The Status software programme was designed to avoid the kind of accident that took place at Three Mile Island in the US , where shift workers faced with a breakdown in equipment switched to substitute systems , unaware that they had been taken out of service by a previous system . |
| 6 | But , true to its timid traditions , the English crimi nal justice system still excludes these videos from court hearings be cause of the hearsay rule ; a rule which has never been definitively formulated but which crudely pre vents statements made out of court by a witness to someone else being admissible . |
| 7 | Moreover , these rules served to protect established policies and the easy access of those groups and interests advantaged by them , at the same time as groups urging change were ruled out of court by a whole series of exclusion devices . |
| 8 | This could so easily have been a recommendable mid-price set of Mozart 's mature Piano and Violin Sonatas , but it is arguably put out of court by the early digital recording ( made between 1975 and 1978 ) which gives the violin an unpleasant rough edgy tone . |
| 9 | Not masks , but heads , still bloody and stretched out of proportion by the human heads beneath . |
| 10 | The Freedom of Information Act was emasculated almost out of existence by the Reagan administration . |
| 11 | There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies . |
| 12 | Without new orders , the shipyard would have run out of work by the end of next year . |
| 13 | Chen says he is still looking for new sources of finance that would enable the company to re-hire the 320 people thrown out of work by the closure , but does not hold out much hope . |
| 14 | But once Naas Botha equalised in kind , the tourists edged ahead and were out of sight by the time Danie Gerber scored their fourth try in the last minute . |
| 15 | There were suggestions from the American air force that the controls may have been put out of order by the fire which caused the crash and that , even if the pilot had stayed in his cockpit until the collision , he would not have been able to do more . |
| 16 | It was ruled out of order by the Standing Orders Committee as it fell foul of rule A three , the subject was within the remit of Congress . |
| 17 | A unanimous vote by Highland Regional Council to surcharge holiday home owners was ruled out of order by the Scottish Office on 19 November last year . |
| 18 | But when it was discussed by councillors , a move to censure him was ruled out of order by the convener , Jackie Tait . |
| 19 | If not , then he will be out of contract by the end of the year . |
| 20 | They proved almost useless , for the ebb and flow of the fighting hindered the collection of accurate information , and such as was gleaned was usually out of date by the time of its transmission . |
| 21 | We emphasis that the information available at press date may become out of date by the time of publication , but we believe that this will apply only if additional deployments are announced or revealed . |
| 22 | The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled . |
| 23 | Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried . |
| 24 | Those calculations might be out of date by the time the application is made . |
| 25 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 26 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 27 | This condition is called Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency , occurring when the pancreas is put out of action by the body 's own immune system which is supposed to protect it — a possible autoimmune disorder ( see Dogs Today October issue ) . |
| 28 | The situation will be reviewed this morning by a medical-nursing and management team but according to an insider , the five operating theatres knocked out of action by the bomb may not be deemed re-sterilised before Friday . |
| 29 | If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide . |
| 30 | But a Welsh Water official gave an assurance that supplies were safe , and he said extra pumps were being brought in to take over from giant pumps which had been put out of action by an electrical failure during the floods . |