Example sentences of "and out of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like forms that briefly flicker in and out of existence in the heart of a flame , the worshippers danced to a staccato rhythm , their bodies jerking sharply yet smoothly in the infernal light of the crackling fires . |
| 2 | The mayor 's stall is in the choir , so at the appropriate moment the civic party rise and are escorted from the nave to the choir — and out of sight of the members of the congregation . |
| 3 | He was Wearing a thick hedge of brambles and overgrown shrubs at the bottom of the shrubbery and out of sight of the house , slashing at them with a billhook while Alex and she dragged the freed branches clear ready to build a bonfire . |
| 4 | The vicarage , when she found it , was of grey brick in the middle of a flat field , far from the village and out of sight of the church . |
| 5 | The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being . |
| 6 | Looking over the oak rails , I could see the gallery floor and , further below , the ground-floor area , the spectacular chimney continuing upward and out of sight above the sloping-beamed ceiling . |
| 7 | Then with his head low and his wings cast disconsolately down , Woil dropped to the floor of the cage , put a talon in the meat that the Man had dropped there when Creggan had made his attack near by , and pulled it back and out of sight in the cage 's shelter . |
| 8 | ‘ Again , in the event that planning permission is granted , they have indicated their intention of tunnelling into the mountain from behind , at a point which is uninhabited and out of sight from the road at least ’ . |
| 9 | Most of our panel do the job on a semi-voluntary basis , mostly for the love of the hobby , and out of concern for the welfare of fish in general . |
| 10 | In and out of holes in the soft cliff face they darted : forked tails , sandy brown backs with a brown band dividing white throat and white belly . |
| 11 | More subtle but equally important changes were the cleaning and straightening of water courses , the ploughing up of herb-rich grassland , and the construction of modern farm buildings , out of scale and out of character with the traditional landscape . |
| 12 | For three months she was in and out of plaster as the tendons slowly heeled . |
| 13 | Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre , and out of proportion to the city 's importance . |
| 14 | But cut off from God his source and out of relationship with the Trinity and the angels , that glory is almost extinct . |
| 15 | This ability of DNA to cut and splice , to jump in and out of chromosomes at the drop of a hat , is one of the more exciting facts that have come to light since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 16 | At the same time , however , increasing concern was being expressed both in and out of government at the social costs of reform . |
| 17 | er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing , |
| 18 | As increasing numbers of families experience several of these events at the same time , and out of sequence of the normal family life cycle , we should be reviewing practice , services , support networks and training to accommodate such changes . |
| 19 | A stance which was appropriate for the Age of Brezhnev and Galtieri now seems out of date and out of touch with the spirit of the times . |
| 20 | In the eyes of this boy he and his wife were probably ridiculous , she lying on a sun-chair , he old and out of touch with the world . |
| 21 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that recent developments have underlined the fact that the Shops Act 1950 is illogical , out of date , rarely enforced and out of touch with the reality of the 1990s ? |
| 22 | Yesterday Mr Kinnock presented a picture of a world changing so rapidly around the present government that the Prime Minister had become ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ She is out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people . |
| 24 | They are impossible , immoral , and out of step with the whole history of salvation . |
| 25 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 26 | Everything is overblown and inflated and out of control in the film business . ’ |
| 27 | He charges in and out of shops with the same patter : ‘ Bonjour , a va ? |
| 28 | She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age . |
| 29 | He was Oliver Moreton , the PGA tournament director , and he motioned Jack , Brian Harley and Jose Miguel and their caddies to the centre of the practice green and out of hearing of the cluster of Press men . |
| 30 | Garden waste in particular now slips easily out of sight and out of mind beneath the black plastic lids . |