Example sentences of "[art] [noun] out [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness .
2 My mother thought about this for a moment until comprehension came to her , whereupon she changed the subject out of deference to my youth and inexperience .
3 The turnpike out through Tyburn to Uxbridge bore more broad-wheeled wagons than any other , and in the winter of 1797 – 8 was reduced to a single six-foot-wide muddy track .
4 In the North another 200 people lost their jobs , taking the number out of work to 153,800 an unemployment rate of 11.1pc , the highest in mainland Britain .
5 UNEMPLOYMENT increased by 40,200 last month to reach its highest total for four years The increase took the number out of work to 2,647,300 figures immediately seized on by Labour and Lib-Dems and used to attack the Tory jobs record .
6 He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb .
7 ‘ . It remains a valetudinarian place , with baths a mile out of town to the east where plenty of people still go for treatment .
8 The large eddies play a role out of proportion to their contribution to the turbulent energy , both in the interaction between the mean flow and the turbulence and in the turbulent energy transfer process involved in Fig. 21.8 .
9 The first two were traffic cops and they were on the street cruising for the house number , no sirens out of deference to the ratepayers , within five minutes .
10 The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers .
11 For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French .
12 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 .
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