Example sentences of "out [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One disease to watch out for is grey mould , or Botrytis cinerea . |
| 2 | ‘ BOOTED OUT FOR BEING WHITE ’ |
| 3 | Da Silva had vanished at Canjuers ; a Scotsman had been thrown out for being underaged ; Gionesca was in hospital in Orange with dysentery and pneumonia after his bath ; Gazil , the Rumanian paratrooper , had developed a massive infection on his back caused by the friction of his rucksack during marching ; and the other six were ill or disabled after our stay at Canjuers . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh aye , I would say she was popular : anybody they can get a laugh out of is popular with thick headed rookies … |
| 5 | Gordon Beamish was a man who made a fetish out of being lynx-eyed . |
| 6 | But Mr Ishihara has made a career out of being shocking , and he has a good motive . |
| 7 | Well you got quite a lot out of being able to evaluate . |
| 8 | The unpredictability of being on duty , the anxiety arising out of being unsure whether anything substantial is going to happen and being in a constant state of readiness in case it does , is one of the stresses associated with duty periods and referral and investigative work generally . |
| 9 | ‘ You certainly live in a splendid spot , ’ Leith struggled up out of being conscience-stricken to remark . |
| 10 | The noises he came out with were amazing , laughing and cooing and gurgling , but he shut his mouth ‘ absolutely ’ against porridge . |
| 11 | but that 's only putting his hand out without being brutal about it , that 's not as dangerous as being coming out entirely from behind the shield . |
| 12 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 13 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 14 | So why chop off the hand of the messenger when the news turns out to be good ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We are just hoping that it will turn out to be good news but I am terribly concerned for her . ’ |
| 16 | Thus : ( 1 ) the said Solicitors ' Publicity Code ( which is summarised in Chapter 12 ) was introduced in 1988 , revised in 1990 , and covers the whole field ; from the general ( solicitors may hold themselves out to be good , but not to be better than the other firm down the road ; publicity must be accurate and not mislead ; a solicitor 's advertisement must identify the solicitor by name ) to the particular ( the correct designation of a solicitor 's practice , entries in legal directories , addresses to the Court and the use of the legal aid logo ) ; ( 2 ) the Law Society 's code incorporates by reference the provisions of the British Code of Advertising Practice which in its own way requires publicity material to be honest , truthful and decent , unambiguous and responsible , and contains a separate section relating to the advertising of financial services and products ; ( 3 ) the Financial Services ( Conduct of Business ) Rules 1987 also cover the advertising of financial services and products and will need to be studied by any firm carrying on investment business ; ( 4 ) solicitors will also need to be familiar with the Consumer Credit ( Advertisements ) Regulations 1989 and other secondary legislation in that connection , the whole corpus replete with the jargon unique to that area of law ; ( 5 ) the Business Names Act 1985 , which has already been referred to in Chapter 1 , requires revision of a firm 's letterheading every time there is a change in the identity of the partners , which will include any occasion when a salaried partner whose name has previously been shown " below the line " is promoted . |
| 17 | An interpretation which sees postmodernist organization as simply another form of totalitarianism may just as well turn out to be appropriate as one which celebrates its pluralism . |
| 18 | Controls on farmers ' use of nitrates would just be voluntary to start with , and legal limits would be imposed only if the voluntary controls turned out to be ineffective . |
| 19 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 20 | ‘ Doing well ’ in such environments will turn out to be equivalent to ‘ collaborating ’ with these other genes . |
| 21 | Full involvement turns out to be critical when the issue is change . |
| 22 | She felt Nick had made an enemy of Mr Evans and that might turn out to be dangerous . |
| 23 | However , what was a healthy attitude in Greek conditions turned out to be dangerous on foreign ground . |
| 24 | This particular example demonstrated a common pitfall of this kind of positivist criminology : even if all the possessors of the chromosomal anomaly had turned out to be persistent criminals ( in the event , they did not ) then it would still only have been capable of ‘ explaining ’ a fraction of 1 per cent of recorded crime , simply because the condition was so rare . |
| 25 | Later scholars contented themselves with trying to find an abstract basis on which gender might turn out to be logical after all . |
| 26 | This reply , however , turned out to be incorrect , as teachers had been asked for pen-portraits of the children for use at the Panel Hearings , and the Acting Director of Education Mike Drever had supported the request . |
| 27 | Broadly speaking , the bureau has to remove or correct any entry which then turns out to be incorrect . |
| 28 | This simplifying assumption may turn out to be incorrect — future psycholinguistic research may provide evidence that different lexicons are involved in the perception and production of language , or that different lexicons are involved in the processing of spoken and written language — but at present there are no good reasons for rejecting the simplifying assumption of a single mental lexicon . |
| 29 | If this subsequently turns out to be incorrect , since we would not wish to feel constrained by the set fee , we will charge for outlays incurred . |
| 30 | The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time . |