Example sentences of "be out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curran formed a useful partnership with centre-back Lee Hirst and with Adrian Meyer expected to be out through injury until Christmas , Curran could well start next season in the first team fray . |
| 2 | Not at all , says Sir Peter , nor would it be out of character if he went in his own carriage — and Mr Moses agrees . |
| 3 | Health permitting , her early retirement would be out of character . |
| 4 | and probably incorporate one or two , ca n't do that on the garage though cos it wo n't , it 's gon na be out of character |
| 5 | Whereas the consequences of tight inventory control seem to be accepted by the British consumer — the Marks & Spencer supermarket nearest our London office always seems to be out of chicken by mid-afternoon — it runs contrary to the habits of a typical American shopper , particularly one visiting a store that charges top dollar . |
| 6 | Coppell will be out of management for at least 2 years ( unless he 's offered the England job ! ! ) |
| 7 | If any pixel is seen in such a strip then the reference card is adjudged to be out of position . |
| 8 | Well , if they 'd like to come at the fire station with their money today , barring fire calls , when we 'll be out of course , or if they see the fire engine driving round Didcot and it has n't got its blue lights on and they want to flag us down , they 're more than welcome to . |
| 9 | She 's not too big , she wo n't be out of scale . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wherever they are kept , they should be out of reach of children and , where appropriate , under lock and key . |
| 12 | Monkeys also use sticks to reach food that may otherwise be out of reach , and they can use stones to help them open fruit and nuts . |
| 13 | Such refinements may seem to be out of reach , but any practical approaches to reducing environmental noise will be helpful to pupils who need to rely more on their hearing as a channel for information . |
| 14 | At first he believed Hollywood and Broadway to be out of reach , and decided to try his luck in another branch of the industry , radio , centred in nearby Chicago . |
| 15 | It had to be high enough to be out of reach of the Men , for they could not fly . |
| 16 | But then to have the wit and the cold blood to fit the stone back and cover the traces — that could be out of reach of most of us . |
| 17 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 18 | Cost may be seen as the ultimate control in choosing a microcomputer and certain ranges of microcomputer e.g. hard disk units may be out of reach given the budget of an individual school or school library although the new Amstrad PC1512 offers a 20mb hard disk for under 11,000 . |
| 19 | With any luck the country will be out of depression , Leyton Orient will be in the Premier League , and Madonna will have got religion |
| 20 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 21 | You can visit a Motown museum in Detroit , but if you want to meet Kevin Saunderson or see where Derrick May grew up , you 'd be out of luck . |
| 22 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 23 | If you know just the title but not the author 's name , you may be out of luck . |
| 24 | But at least there is near unanimity that we really will be out of recession by the end of the year . |
| 25 | In the Commercial Union building alone almost three acres — 2,000 panes — of toughened glass must be replaced , according to Mr Ray Morley , a marketing manager of the insurance firm , who said yesterday that the building would be out of service for a year . |
| 26 | Every bus on the route will be out of service from 8 each evening while the company talks to police and community groups . |
| 27 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 28 | In addition , groups of questions were devoted to marriage and to child-care , so that there was no pressure on the women to feel that responses on these subjects would be out of order . |
| 29 | ‘ The phone could be out of order . |
| 30 | For instance , if in constitutional law you are directed to write a note on the ‘ kangaroo ’ ( a method of curtailing discussion in the House of Commons ) , a discussion of the closure and guillotine ( two other methods of curtailing discussion ) would generally be out of order . |