Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | This boiling down of groups into their respective ethnic essences is clearly congruent with the nationalist concerns of the right , but it is also sanctioned by the antiracist orthodoxy of the left and by many voices from within the black communities themselves which have needed no prompting to develop their own fascination with ethnic differences and thus reduce political definitions of ‘ race ’ to a narcissistic celebration of culture and Identity . |
| 2 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 3 | Because of the build up of venom in their system the Forest Goblin shamans inhabit a dream-like world haunted by strange spider gods and shadowy eight-legged daemons . |
| 4 | That is the reasoning behind the pleas for some allocation of R & D Funds to basic research where this sort of behaviour would be encouraged ( the following up of leads for their own sake ) . |
| 5 | LEVEL 42 have a new record deal with RCA , having settled out of court with their old label Polydor following a dispute over the band 's next album . |
| 6 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 7 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 8 | It is certainly out of proportion to their actual size , but is in my view a healthy thing . |
| 9 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Hence , pressure groups for the disabled , the old , neglected children and so on will exert influence out of proportion to their naked power . |
| 12 | But many of these offences are serious or sophisticated crimes , with importance out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 13 | The large eddies play a role out of proportion to their contribution to the turbulent energy , both in the interaction between the mean flow and the turbulence and in the turbulent energy transfer process involved in Fig. 21.8 . |
| 14 | They certainly did n't choose to drop out of society like their New York City equivalents who could always return to daddy 's money ; rather , theirs is a quest to reflect the plight of the dispossessed and let them know they 're not alone , to offer the disaffected hope , and to somehow go beyond merely preaching to those who already understand . |
| 15 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 16 | In the early stages England had given them a certain amount of help , partly out of sympathy for their Protestant religious beliefs and partly to check the power of Spain — it was this war in the Netherlands , more than the troubles in South America , which convinced Philip that he should try to invade England . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Dot shoved the trug out of sight under their table before the waitress saw . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This left them in the ludicrous position of having to claim that , out of loyalty to their sovereign lady , they were embattled against their sovereign lady 's mother . |
| 21 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 22 | Which gives us the advantage , and keeps us out of range of their artillery . ’ |
| 23 | So the British had come out of India with their egos more or less intact . |
| 24 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 25 | In such circumstances , the Americans , out of concern for their homeland , might falter in their commitment to Nato or look for ways to confine any war to Europe . |
| 26 | Many of the rich , famous and powerful of this world have stayed in the Savoy but , unfortunately , out of respect for their privacy , no official record has ever been kept . |
| 27 | The only thing out of place in their suburban show home is their sensitive young son , Michael , whose disturbing nightmares hint at the darker forces seething beneath its spotless surface … ’ |
| 28 | She naturally felt out of place in their chalet and accepted the invitation of Simon Berry , the son of a wealthy wine merchant , to join his chalet party . |
| 29 | So , for example , in 1978 , quite small traders were already moving money out of Libya for their close kinsmen as well as on their own account . |
| 30 | Now , out of regard for their susceptibilities , Europeans were no longer invited , indeed were forbidden to attend . |