Example sentences of "be [adv prt] of [noun] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 're out of date because you know a lot ’ , one of his colleagues tells him .
2 Munro has been out of rugby since his complex leg break in April , 1990 , an injury that forced him to drop out of Scotland 's tour to New Zealand that summer .
3 Not at all , says Sir Peter , nor would it be out of character if he went in his own carriage — and Mr Moses agrees .
4 Well the paper must be out of date because I think I got that stamp months ago in fact you bought it back from Switzerland .
5 I thought about buying a gun , but decided against that too ; I 'd be out of money before I left .
6 The 15 other boys in his class are having their heads shaved so that Mark will not be out of place when his hair falls out during his treatment .
7 Unless their captor had a secret supply of them , Peter reckoned he would be out of smokes before they moved .
8 Hence if a sinusoidal stress is applied to a linear viscoelastic material , the resulting stress will also be sinusoidal , but will be out of phase when there is energy dissipation or damping in the polymer .
9 The things is there 's a small possibility it may be out of print cos there 's a new edition in the pipeline .
10 I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press .
11 This actually allows the lift maintenance monitoring organisations to know that the lift is out of action before you do .
12 It is time Norman Lamont accepted he is out of step because everyone else is right and he is wrong . ’
13 But European Commissioner Bruce Millan has long argued that Britain is out of step because it includes European money in its allocations to local authorities .
14 Just to mention one more thing the force video , a number of community affairs staff have mentioned to me that it 's out of date cos it goes back to the previous organisation
15 Martin held back , and she waited until James was out of sight before she spoke .
16 By now Emily was out of sight so there was no way of knowing .
17 Mr Telford , who took redundancy from Markham Main four years ago , was out of work until he got a job at Rossington colliery , Doncaster .
18 and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent .
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