Example sentences of "of step with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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of a world changing so rapidly around the present government that the Prime Minister had become ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ She is out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people . |
| 3 | The other governments of the Maghreb are dangerously out of step with the mood of their people . |
| 4 | David Cannadine , author of The Decline And Fall Of The British Aristocracy , claimed last week that the monarchy is ‘ fundamentally out of step with the mood and realities of the Nineties ’ . |
| 5 | Stowe gives a stirring , luminous performance as a strong , spirited female out of step with the bemused , bonneted members of her sex such as May , who wanders through the action in a panic-stricken daze . |
| 6 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 7 | The more comparable writers we study , the less likely it is that they are out of step with the norm of the language rather than Swift . |
| 8 | ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’ |
| 9 | This marginality is well described in Peter Wildblood 's chapter on ‘ Perry and Bella ’ in A Way of Life : ‘ the strange world of people who for one reason or another are out of step with the times ’ , or by Colin MacInnes : |
| 10 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 11 | They are impossible , immoral , and out of step with the whole history of salvation . |
| 12 | Educators , and others , who abhor the idea of a world filled with TV 's graduates are clearly out of step with the times . |
| 13 | They sensed the change in political mood and were anxious that the Conservatives should not get out of step with the public . |
| 14 | Since Gundobad may have been out of step with the majority of his people and his family , his own beliefs should perhaps be connected with those of his uncle , the arian Ricimer . |
| 15 | In a moderately seasonal environment , in which several species produce lleshy fruits , there might be expected to be selection for a particular species to fruit out of step with the others , and thereby avoid competition with other species for dispersers . |
| 16 | It is out of step with the rest of Europe . |
| 17 | I think for the male student who is subject to sexual harassment , or who gets the sort of inappropriate approaches that Marianne is talking about , that is unusual , it 's out of step with the way in which he perceives himself , and his sense of what he is and who he is in the world . |