Example sentences of "[adv] out of [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a show of force which appeared somewhat out of proportion to the 200 or so trade unionists who turned up outside the court . |
| 2 | That raid on Berlin of the 25/26 August pulled a psychological trigger in Nazi minds , and produced results that were entirely out of proportion to the military resources employed on that particular raid . |
| 3 | And the answer was nothing unless you actually wish to attack China and er defeat China through military means and the task of doing that of course was enormously out of proportion to the original er cause of the war . |
| 4 | And the answer was nothing unless you actually wish to attack China and er defeat China through military means and the task of doing that of course was enormously out of proportion to the original er cause of the war . |
| 5 | The furore over the Mellors ' freebie at New Year in 1990 has put paradise temporarily out of bounds to the world . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wherever you use ALCLAD , the magnificent effect is always right out of proportion to the cost . |
| 9 | Paul had laughingly explained that they had taken one small pull only at the bamboo rod , purely out of courtesy to the Moi chief , but it had gone straight to Joseph 's head . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The PLO struck at Israeli soldiers and civilians alike , and by 1970 the Israelis were retaliating deep into Lebanon , usually against civilian targets and always with results quite out of proportion to the original Palestinian attack . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She felt engulfed in a frozen rage quite out of proportion to the situation … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All Iranian papers reported large turn-outs , despite evidence from the streets of Teheran that many did not vote , either out of hostility to the regime or apathy . |