Example sentences of "be so out " in BNC.

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1 Mr Blair took the lead , claiming : ‘ Some young offenders are so out of control and such menaces to society that they are going to have to be put in some form of secure accommodation . ’
2 ‘ The brutal truth , however , is that some youngsters are so out of control they have to be detained , but that should be the last resort . ’
3 the Wailers are so out of time , they 're all just like is just so slow it 's just like exactly the same but like about twenty times slower .
4 it 's a real shame we 're so out of date .
5 ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’
6 Before long he will be so out of touch with technical matters that he has nothing new to contribute .
7 One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes .
8 By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills .
9 It is extraordinary that Labour should be so out of touch with public feeling .
10 I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult .
11 He is unable to speak , he is so out of breath .
12 His home-brewed techno-myth is so out there it gets lost occasionally , but at least he 's managed to go all the way , unlike the BFI 's new directors who sadly seem creatively hamstrung by an outmoded system .
13 If the decision of the Secretary of State as to the correct tariff after going through the consultation process is so out of touch with reality that it is irrational then , as in Ex parte Handscomb , that decision could be the subject of judicial review .
14 I 'm a little worried by it : I mean , this fastidiousness is so out of character .
15 It 's a strange thing to say about a man whose libido is so out of control , but he seems psychologically very well balanced .
16 ‘ The head 's so out of touch with reality that it 's not surprising things are going wrong . ’
17 She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse .
18 ‘ It was so out of character for your father .
19 At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money .
20 He was so out of breath that he had to swallow a couple of words to get air .
21 The differences were beginning to be explained , although these statistics still do not say why Rochester was so out of line .
22 This remark was so out of keeping that Alice became alarmed .
23 At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money .
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