Example sentences of "[is] outside " in BNC.

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1 Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power .
2 This is not the case , though , if the proposed subject is outside the catchment area of school and university examinations , as Terry Lovell discovered when she offered to write a book on Gissing for a leftwing series , which had asked for one on Jane Austen .
3 Strictly , this is outside the remit of this book since it is a seasonal or annual rhythm , but we include it since it is believed to involve a disorder of daily rhythms .
4 W/Cpl Burns informs the Volkspoliqei that their request is outside the terms of the Agreement , and that if they want any details they must call for a Soviet officer , to whom the information will be given .
5 A refugee is ‘ a person who , owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race , religion , membership of a particular social group or political opinion , is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or , owing to such fear , unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country ’ , according to the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees .
6 You may experience a strong sense of anger and resentment when the weather turns bad and your pet is outside all alone , instead of in his rightful place by your side .
7 A prolate cycloid is generated when the point P is outside the generating circle ; OP is more than a .
8 An epicycloid is formed when the rolling circle is outside a master circle .
9 ‘ My purchase of Crosby Hall is outside my normal commercial activities .
10 England have encouraged these players to hold mercenary attitudes and many feel , as I do , this is outside the spirit in which the game should be played .
11 The object is to re-define the rapist so that almost no man is outside its scope .
12 After a sticky start , the interdisciplinary research centre at Cambridge — which is outside the NCS system — was given a clean bill of health by its SERC review .
13 As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame .
14 It is outside the range of his sense-experience .
15 The peasant , for instance , who wishes to sell his avocados or pots in the local market may need a licence to do so , something that is outside the realm of the usual activities of a peasant , especially an illiterate .
16 How it will be done is outside my brief at the moment .
17 There is outside the study today a glass cabinet displaying various of Mr Farraday 's ornaments , but throughout Lord Darlington 's days , there stood at that spot a bookshelf containing many volumes of encyclopedia , including a complete set of the Britannica .
18 Deviance is thus used to describe behaviour that is outside the rules of society ; and these rules can be legal rules or social and moral rules , rules about the conventional way to dress or to speak to other people , for example .
19 It should also be apparent , though , that there is a variety of other behaviour which is outside the rules and standards of society but which does not break the criminal law .
20 Increasingly this is outside the UK altogether : international industrial investment undertaken by British companies amounted to over £10 billion per annum by the late 1980s .
21 Since its publication , the RAWP Report and its implementation have been the centre of considerable discussion , analysis and controversy ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) which is outside the scope of the discussion here .
22 The corollary to point two is that it is budget-holders — such as the chief pharmacist or chief pathologist — who are expected to manage their departments within a predetermined budget , although the level of activity in their departments is outside their control .
23 Trust clauses are found in wills but their field of application is outside them .
24 Marketing too , in its strictest sense , is outside our remit .
25 A free-standing oil or water filled radiator is all right too , providing , again , the power source is outside the bathroom .
26 If there is doubt and unbelief to be overcome , it is outside of us , and like St George we must venture out of the camp and slay the dragons for the honour of faith .
27 The church is outside the village at the west end , on high , safe , ground and doubtless on the site of the original village .
28 Capitalism , being patriarchal , socially constructs sexuality within a heterosexual framework ( the inter-relationship between capitalism , patriarchy and heterosexuality is outside the scope of this chapter , unfortunately , but is overdue for socialist analysis ) .
29 So the rules for moving the point cams are , firstly , only move the point cam when the carriage is on the opposite side and secondly , if you break rule one while the N1 cam is outside the point cams , move one of the point cams so that the N1 cam lies between the point cams and then read the cam positions .
30 No VAT arises on the reimbursement of such fees to the landlord as it is outside the scope of VAT ( Law Society 's Gazette ( 11 July 1990 ) p 14 ) .
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