Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try your wrap out for size as a sarong skirt |
| 2 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
| 3 | It was as staggeringly out of character as the Pope reading Playboy . |
| 4 | She simply sucked them blank , feeling the change through the paper , distantly aware of that part of the City being snapped out of existence as a string is snapped unknotted by a skilled conjurer . |
| 5 | Unemployment means a period commencing after the effective date of insurance during which the Insured Borrower is out of work as a result of redundancy as defined in the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 or any amendment thereto , dismissal where the contract under which the Insured Borrower is employed is terminated by the employer , or the financial insolvency of the business of the Insured Borrower 's employer or the business of the Insured Borrower' . |
| 6 | in respect of employed persons , out of work as a result of redundancy as defined in the Employment Protection ( Consolidated ) Act 1978 , as amended , dismissal where the contract under which the Insured Customer is employed is terminated by the Employer , or the declared bankruptcy or liquidation of the business of the Insured Customer 's employer . |
| 7 | The strike is likely to have knock-on effects causing some delays for travellers tomorrow , with rolling stock likely to be left out of position as a result of today 's stoppage . |
| 8 | This happened to Tunisia , one of the best sides in the tournament , who were knocked out of contention as a consequence of a draw against a resilient , but hardly inspiring Czechoslovakia . |
| 9 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 10 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
| 11 | A very confident performance , which would not have been out of place as a university seminar , but which was not , perhaps , geared to this audience . |
| 12 | The results range from the almost predictable ( say the unsettled but distinctly South African ‘ township ’ feel of Lullaby ) to the totally unpredictable , ; the title track is indeed just that , ranging from a tight , boppy ensemble that would not be out of place as a riff in a Basie band arrangement and transforming ( metamorphosing — see ? ) into a complex interweaving of improvised joint soloing against rhythmic drumbeats and back again . |
| 13 | At Regine 's , where Jody Scheckter would have been as out of place as a hyena at a symphony concert , James was thoroughly at home . |
| 14 | It was confidently predicted that some firms , particularly the smaller ones , would also go out of business as a consequence of the 1985 round of price cutting . |
| 15 | In later years , many of the rural and semi-rural mills went out of business as a result of competition from the large steam-powered mills built in and around Gloucester Docks . |
| 16 | Ampney Crucis Mill is a long-term survivor for , in an age when many rural mills went out of business as a result of their comparative remoteness , coupled with competition from large steam-powered town mills , it still continued to grind corn . |
| 17 | More than three million hens have been destroyed at a cost of more than £5 million and a number of egg producers have been forced out of business as a result . |
| 18 | The courts certainly wish to avoid a reduction in the market for automobiles which would happen if finance companies were forced out of business as a result of imposing liabilities upon them to all and sundry . |
| 19 | He said it would kill the job prospects of thousands of workers in the constituency , including those working in nursing and residential homes which he says could go out of business as a result . |
| 20 | But it is no less important that players , especially self-employed men like Mike Teague , should not be out of pocket as a result of sacrificing their work time for pre-tournament training and then the competition itself . |
| 21 | If one word is used out of context as an index heading , plainly it will be difficult to establish the interpretation to be placed on the homograph . |
| 22 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |
| 23 | Although the quinary system was not widely taken up , especially outside Britain , it was not dismissed out of hand as a figment of MacLeay 's and Swainson 's imaginations . |
| 24 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 25 | This answer is worked out in detail as the Essay proceeds , but it is important at the outset to see what it amounts to . |
| 26 | If you 're a C D O at Trent and you know you 're gon na go out on patrol as a special that night , there 's no doubt Trevor will let you take a radio home with you , as long as you bring it back the next day . |
| 27 | I thought you said with the bio- limiting it , it evened out at depth as a concentration |