Example sentences of "[noun sg] out of [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This relentless nagging and tidying will have an effect out of all proportion to its actual cogency . |
| 2 | It has been open to abuse , and indeed has been abused in the past by the Sheffield Mafia , which continues to exercise a covert control over British climbing media and administration out of all proportion to its collective record or ongoing contribution . |
| 3 | We often find that people quite junior in the hierarchy have influence out of all proportion to their position because of their standing in the informal structure . |
| 4 | The NRA , which traditionally wielded a degree of influence out of all proportion to its 2,600,000 members , as usual forcefully combated the bill . |
| 5 | Ministers may choose to delegate the carrying out of particular tasks to their subordinates , especially their permanent secretaries but , because they are answerable to Parliament , they will need to satisfy themselves that the delegated tasks are being performed satisfactorily . |
| 6 | Secondly , it serves as proof that housework is work : the spelling out of these rules to be followed places housework in the same category as other work — there are things that simply have to be done . |
| 7 | They were few in number , but attracted an attention out of all proportion to the space they took up in the exhibition . |
| 8 | The revolutionary intelligentsia were to assume an importance out of all proportion to their meagre numbers . |
| 9 | Tiny though they were by today 's standards , they had a local importance out of all proportion to their size . |
| 10 | In the 1720s a government survey counted almost a quarter of a million fugitives , and the opening out of new lands to the south and east continued to attract desperate peasants throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | For this reason it has always enjoyed a notability out of all relation to its size . |
| 12 | But , of course , some status symbols merely seek to inflate the importance of an office or a person out of all proportion to his or her achievements or responsibilities . |
| 13 | Its activities , perhaps naturally enough , received press coverage out of all proportion to the rest of the war . |
| 14 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 15 | Here most of the hills are rocky and small , but since they thrust up their shapely , jagged features from lochan-speckled moors , they create a presence out of all proportion to their size : sort of miniature weathered sandstone versions of the Torridon giants . |
| 16 | The rough , boggy going combines with the forbidding beauty of the heights looming on both sides to create an impression of seriousness out of all proportion to the difficulties underfoot . |
| 17 | Simply expressed , a relatively poorly supported centre party with well under 20 per cent of the vote , but with some eighty or so seats , would invariably be in government ; would be in a position to determine whether Conservative or Labour were drawn into government with it ; and would , therefore , be able to exert an influence over the direction of public policy out of all proportion to their votes and support in the country at large . |
| 18 | It 's not easy to describe Signe , for she left you with a memory out of all relation to her true appearance . |
| 19 | They would has/e swum naked only Rufus 's father had discovered them doing this and made a fuss out of all proportion to the offence , if offence it was . |