Example sentences of "be [adv prt] of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be out of scale with the rest of the room , as if his size and all of its angles had somehow been exaggerated . |
| 2 | It had to be high enough to be out of reach of the Men , for they could not fly . |
| 3 | But at least there is near unanimity that we really will be out of recession by the end of the year . |
| 4 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 5 | He has not done so and , therefore , it would be out of order for the Hon. Gentleman to pursue his present line of argument under this new clause |
| 6 | So any substantive attack on the proposition will be out of order within the context of adjudication , just as an attack on the wisdom of the rules of chess is out of order within a game . |
| 7 | But if the consensus is one of conviction , then dissent , however surprising , will not be out of order in the same way , because everyone will recognize that an attack on the substantive case for the proposition is an attack on the proposition itself . |
| 8 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 9 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 10 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 11 | All the adventurers have to do is to be out of sight of the Fiend when it emerges after 3 Turns . |
| 12 | After he had gone Tristram and Jennifer went down to the end of the orchard where they could be out of sight of the house . |
| 13 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 14 | Firstly they could be painted in camouflage to lessen the visual impact or alternatively , they could be dispersed among trees and in copses , so as to be out of sight from the very well used coast paths . |
| 15 | History books are often considered to be out of date on the day of publication ! |
| 16 | A significant proportion of what you are studying today will be out of date in the space of a few years . |
| 17 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 18 | Those calculations might be out of date by the time the application is made . |
| 19 | But however great the wife 's contribution , the order to her should not be out of proportion to the total assets and had to do justice between the parties . |
| 20 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 21 | To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public . |
| 22 | The cost of obtaining actuarial valuations for purposes of adjusting to the applicable UK accounting standard is considered to be out of proportion to the benefits to be gained . |
| 23 | ‘ I will be out of contract at the start of August and honestly do n't know what is happening . |
| 24 | If not , then he will be out of contract by the end of the year . |
| 25 | WORKERS at a Merseyide firm were today coming to terms with the news that they will be out of work in the New Year . |
| 26 | The West Stand will be out of commission at the time because of the ground 's redevelopment , which has started with the construction of stands to replace the north and south terracing . |
| 27 | A serious fire on board the barge Memory means that it will be out of action for the rest of the season . |
| 28 | SHEFFIELD United goalkeeper Mel Rees , on the mend after a stomach operation , has joined Terry Yorath 's Welsh squad although he will be out of action for the rest of the season . |
| 29 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 30 | ‘ Where patient health can be at risk , you simply can not afford to be out of line with the programme of works . ’ |