Example sentences of "out of [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
| 2 | It was as staggeringly out of character as the Pope reading Playboy . |
| 3 | She simply sucked them blank , feeling the change through the paper , distantly aware of that part of the City being snapped out of existence as a string is snapped unknotted by a skilled conjurer . |
| 4 | Unemployment means a period commencing after the effective date of insurance during which the Insured Borrower is out of work as a result of redundancy as defined in the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 or any amendment thereto , dismissal where the contract under which the Insured Borrower is employed is terminated by the employer , or the financial insolvency of the business of the Insured Borrower 's employer or the business of the Insured Borrower' . |
| 5 | in respect of employed persons , out of work as a result of redundancy as defined in the Employment Protection ( Consolidated ) Act 1978 , as amended , dismissal where the contract under which the Insured Customer is employed is terminated by the Employer , or the declared bankruptcy or liquidation of the business of the Insured Customer 's employer . |
| 6 | For three months she was in and out of plaster as the tendons slowly heeled . |
| 7 | Like Sutton , Packford had dropped out of papers as a career . |
| 8 | The strike is likely to have knock-on effects causing some delays for travellers tomorrow , with rolling stock likely to be left out of position as a result of today 's stoppage . |
| 9 | This happened to Tunisia , one of the best sides in the tournament , who were knocked out of contention as a consequence of a draw against a resilient , but hardly inspiring Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Really Useful Group , floated in 1986 , felt out of tune as a public company . |
| 11 | However , most who moved out of cities as a result of planned decentralization did so through the new-town programme . |
| 12 | He says although it 's the most modern building off the market square , it 's out of date as a modern shopping centre . |
| 13 | Those that still persist in the belief that the use of computers in the study of history equates solely to quantification are about as out of date as the dinosaur-like machines available to the computer-using pioneers of the 1970s . |
| 14 | A product of the cine-literate culture of Paris , he was in and out of cinemas as a kid ( ‘ I started with westerns and finished with Bergman ’ ) and graduated from film school in 1983 . |
| 15 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 16 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
| 17 | The results range from the almost predictable ( say the unsettled but distinctly South African ‘ township ’ feel of Lullaby ) to the totally unpredictable , ; the title track is indeed just that , ranging from a tight , boppy ensemble that would not be out of place as a riff in a Basie band arrangement and transforming ( metamorphosing — see ? ) into a complex interweaving of improvised joint soloing against rhythmic drumbeats and back again . |
| 18 | At Regine 's , where Jody Scheckter would have been as out of place as a hyena at a symphony concert , James was thoroughly at home . |
| 19 | A very confident performance , which would not have been out of place as a university seminar , but which was not , perhaps , geared to this audience . |
| 20 | Well not as way out of place as a British Telecom building would look but , it looks quite erm looks quite out of place , but erm this massive great obnoxious Georgian building erm was broken into on Christmas morning right ? |
| 21 | In later years , many of the rural and semi-rural mills went out of business as a result of competition from the large steam-powered mills built in and around Gloucester Docks . |
| 22 | Ampney Crucis Mill is a long-term survivor for , in an age when many rural mills went out of business as a result of their comparative remoteness , coupled with competition from large steam-powered town mills , it still continued to grind corn . |
| 23 | More than three million hens have been destroyed at a cost of more than £5 million and a number of egg producers have been forced out of business as a result . |
| 24 | The courts certainly wish to avoid a reduction in the market for automobiles which would happen if finance companies were forced out of business as a result of imposing liabilities upon them to all and sundry . |
| 25 | It was confidently predicted that some firms , particularly the smaller ones , would also go out of business as a consequence of the 1985 round of price cutting . |
| 26 | He said it would kill the job prospects of thousands of workers in the constituency , including those working in nursing and residential homes which he says could go out of business as a result . |
| 27 | But it is no less important that players , especially self-employed men like Mike Teague , should not be out of pocket as a result of sacrificing their work time for pre-tournament training and then the competition itself . |
| 28 | If one word is used out of context as an index heading , plainly it will be difficult to establish the interpretation to be placed on the homograph . |
| 29 | Like Parson , he had been out of Teheran as the Shah 's power crumbled in the summer of 1978 . |
| 30 | The massive anxiety aroused by these conflicts has to be resolved , or else the nurse will either drop out of training as a ‘ failure ’ , or resolve the conflict by reverting to defensive techniques . |