Example sentences of "[prep] [be] out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 27-year-old Oldham keeper is likely to be out for the rest of the season after tearing wrist ligaments against Manchester United . |
| 2 | RISING star Remittance Man has damaged a tendon in his off-fore and is likely to be out for the rest of the season . |
| 3 | Luton winger Scott Oakes has undergone a cartilage operation and is likely to be out for the rest of the season . |
| 4 | And the , the importance of that for me , that shows me the shape of the month , so there 's nowhere I 'm going to be on the tenth other than my office , because I 'm going to be out for the rest of the week . |
| 5 | ‘ Sailors were the élite , ’ Daniel Farson observes ; ‘ guardsmen were less popular because they were known to be out for the money . ’ |
| 6 | Back at Louth , we found the TD to be out for the day , to my secret relief . |
| 7 | They ca n't afford to lose time because they 've got to be out for the bairns . |
| 8 | Contractors will reluctantly say , ’ No , we simply can not do your work because we can not afford to be out of the money for that period . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , bedside lights need to be out of the reach of children too young to understand the dangers of electricity . |
| 10 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 11 | Sparkling performance figures would seem to be out of the question . |
| 12 | Much as he would have liked to try to rescue Murray , he recognised that to be out of the question . |
| 13 | He felt cold to the point of shivering , weak enough for standing to be out of the question . |
| 14 | I suppose getting tickets for the Oxford game is going to be out of the question ? |
| 15 | Smith does n't want to be out of the selectors ' minds at the start of the tour because he is desperate to improve on his overseas record for England . |
| 16 | The snub comes after Diana arranged to be out of the country next Saturday so she does n't have to spend time with Charles on his 44th birthday . |
| 17 | ( It was a nifty move to be out of the country because prices back home had just been ‘ liberated ’ , sending inflation on basic commodities soaring . ) |
| 18 | ‘ Trust John to be out of the country , ’ Loretta said wistfully . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you wanted to be out of the limelight for a while , ’ he 'd said . |
| 20 | ‘ Maria Luisa wanted to be out of the capital , ’ he told her . |
| 21 | If the vessel is to be out of the water for a fixed period e.g. between September the 1st and March the 31st annually , then this will be expressed in the Policy Schedule , and will be detailed on the underwriting risk and claims statistics screens on the Polisy system . |
| 22 | He had been expected to be out of the game for at least two months after suffering concussion and a broken eye socket from a punch , but has made a remarkable recovery . |
| 23 | Some said they were glad to be out of the fighting : ‘ We are not prisoners , we are guests , ’ in the words of one . |
| 24 | Fuh-Q Charlie of Deathtongue and Sonny Pigg of the Mothers are expected to be out of the Reconstruction Wing of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in time for their big Christmas ‘ Freak the World ’ concert at the Hollywood Bowl next month . |
| 25 | From the left flank , the Labour Party gleefully exalted in ‘ Tory chaos ’ , content to be out of the spotlight . |
| 26 | The walls were bare and whitewashed ; they might be distempered or painted and a few bright prints could be added and hung high enough to be out of the patients reach . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's going to be out of the office for a while . ’ |
| 28 | He is too fine a politician to be out of the Commons for long . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Major said Mr Patten was ‘ too good a politician ’ to be out of the Commons . |
| 30 | He was glad to be out of the caravan . |