Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always been touched with religion , but as Rory had grown out of boyhood into his teens , she had been content to let him follow down his father 's road to politely concealed indifference . |
| 2 | Thirdly , there is the possibility that abnormalities judged by us to be psychotic in afunctional sense were actually due to organic brain diseases unrecognised at the time ; for reasons discussed previously this would rule them out of court for our purposes . |
| 3 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book very politely describes this building as ‘ extraordinarily out of character with its surroundings ’ . |
| 4 | Today , however , it is a splendid two-track road , out of character with its surroundings but permitting fast progress — although few will fail to stop often to appraise the changing views around each bend . |
| 5 | It seemed out of proportion to its surroundings , like a piece of pop sculpture on a deliberately provoking scale . |
| 6 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 7 | The Sigmar representatives are very influential , and because they cast their votes for the same candidate they wield influence out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 8 | But many of these offences are serious or sophisticated crimes , with importance out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 9 | More difficult illusions require the subject to hallucinate objects or people into or out of existence with his eyes open . |
| 10 | Take the pain out of pruning with our secateurs , tested and recommended by the GHI . |
| 11 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 12 | Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors . |
| 13 | The column passed out of sight below his feet . |
| 14 | In a short time one returned with his beak full , and they could hear the nestlings squeaking as he flew out of sight beneath their feet . |
| 15 | Misty spray shrouded the sheer rock walls which plunged out of sight beneath our feet , and the recoiling backwash of the seas was heaped with fluffy spume as if some giant hand had emptied a mammoth packet of detergent there . |
| 16 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |
| 17 | His daughter , Mary Moore , who enthusiastically supported the exhibition and was guest of honour at the opening , is well known for opposing the approach to her father 's work and , above all to his house and studios at Perry Green , taken by the Henry Moore Foundation , which she considers to be over-institutional , insufficiently concerned with the memory of her father and out of tune with his intentions . |
| 18 | To be out of range of your bombs . |
| 19 | This same invincible figure has been held responsible for some blunder , or has for some other reason fallen out of favour with his employers , leaves the house where he came to fame and is never heard of again . |
| 20 | Mr Bacon is out of date in his comments . |
| 21 | But unfortunately he did not last very long , and his views were soon considered out of date by his successors . |
| 22 | But it is out of respect for your views , Mr Lewis , that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric . |
| 23 | The shining white paint of the one-storey building seems out of place in its surroundings in Ajegunle , a sprawling slum suburb on the outskirts of Lagos . |
| 24 | She was also a little out of step with her schoolmates . |
| 25 | Now , out of regard for their susceptibilities , Europeans were no longer invited , indeed were forbidden to attend . |
| 26 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 27 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |
| 28 | Bureaucratic organizations are those which get out of control with their controls |
| 29 | ‘ These women usually live healthy lives , eat well , exercise , do n't smoke or drink — but fear of failure and anxiety about the future puts them out of touch with their bodies . |
| 30 | One has a brief glimpse here of the fate of the elderly who were childless or out of touch with their children . |