Example sentences of "out [prep] proportion to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things go wrong when you have too few , or when one gets out of proportion to the rest . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's very exhausting hanging on by your arms , and Michael had a strength in his upper arms that was out of proportion to the rest of his body . |
| 3 | Margaret Thatcher managed to negotiate a system of rebates at the Fontainebleau Summit in 1984 , but the British contribution remains wholly out of proportion to the size of her economy . |
| 4 | Quite often something one had thought perfectly uncontroversial or even almost too insultingly obvious to include in one 's cooking instructions arouses readers to a pitch of rage and scorn which strikes one as very much out of proportion to the offence committed . |
| 5 | Mark Wait at Heffers in Cambridge commented , ‘ The work involved in collecting statistics can be quite out of proportion to the level of business being done . |
| 6 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 7 | Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection . |
| 8 | The Army Department reviewed commitments in Korea and wrote to the State Department that Korea possessed ‘ little strategic value ’ in the view of the joint chiefs of staff — ‘ To apply the Truman Doctrine to Korea would require prodigious effort and vast expenditure far out of proportion to the benefits to be expected . ’ |
| 9 | The cost of obtaining actuarial valuations for purposes of adjusting to the applicable UK accounting standard is considered to be out of proportion to the benefits to be gained . |
| 10 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 11 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 12 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |
| 13 | Weakness out of proportion to the illness |
| 14 | Anxiety , restlessness , weakness out of proportion to the illness , burning pains better ( > ) heat , foul odours , chilly , worse ( < ) before and just after midnight — these are characteristic of this remedy . |
| 15 | Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness . |
| 16 | Wherever you use ALCLAD , the magnificent effect is always right out of proportion to the cost . |
| 17 | Thirdly , the respect in which the courts are held gives their decisions an influence out of proportion to the number of cases they deal with . |
| 18 | Avoid very narrow raised beds , otherwise the thickness of the wall will look out of proportion to the planting area . |
| 19 | The main drawback to this officer/ N.C.O./soldier ratio was that if a party was killed or taken prisoner the enemy scored a success well out of proportion to the numbers involved . ’ |
| 20 | Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre , and out of proportion to the city 's importance . |
| 21 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 22 | To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public . |
| 23 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |
| 24 | Special care baby units are phenomenally expensive in equipment ; there 's an awful lot of monitoring equipment that 's required , and it has to be updated every few years , and the costs are quite out of proportion to the amount of money available to the health authority , so that er , on the whole , special care baby units throughout the country now rely virtually totally on charitable giving . |
| 25 | She felt engulfed in a frozen rage quite out of proportion to the situation … |
| 26 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |