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

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1 For example , the myth that management development is a politically neutral , objective activity that brings the best talent out for service to the enterprise ( Lawrence , 1977 ) .
2 Things go wrong when you have too few , or when one gets out of proportion to the rest .
3 ‘ It 's very exhausting hanging on by your arms , and Michael had a strength in his upper arms that was out of proportion to the rest of his body .
4 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 .
5 Quite often something one had thought perfectly uncontroversial or even almost too insultingly obvious to include in one 's cooking instructions arouses readers to a pitch of rage and scorn which strikes one as very much out of proportion to the offence committed .
6 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 .
7 A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting .
8 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 .
9 Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems .
10 Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems .
11 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 .
12 Weakness out of proportion to the illness
13 Anxiety , restlessness , weakness out of proportion to the illness , burning pains better ( > ) heat , foul odours , chilly , worse ( < ) before and just after midnight — these are characteristic of this remedy .
14 Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness .
15 Wherever you use ALCLAD , the magnificent effect is always right out of proportion to the cost .
16 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 .
17 Avoid very narrow raised beds , otherwise the thickness of the wall will look out of proportion to the planting area .
18 Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre , and out of proportion to the city 's importance .
19 To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ?
20 To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public .
21 Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes .
22 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 .
23 She felt engulfed in a frozen rage quite out of proportion to the situation
24 It sailed in a great arc , hung poised for a fraction of a second , then plunged out of sight to the sea .
25 Bonnie ( Faye Dunaway ) had one leg strapped out of sight to the gear lever so that she could slump right over without actually falling out of the car .
26 Norton 's 13,000 shareholders , most of them private individuals who invested out of loyalty to the name and hope for its resurrection , are stuck : they can neither sell their shares nor can they vote on MacDonald 's tenure .
27 Her decision , she said , was taken out of loyalty to the organization and not because of the " false allegations " against her .
28 Did I stay out of loyalty to the priest , the human being , or was there something else that compelled me to remain there , when all the more ‘ Christian ’ elements had long ago fled ?
29 Skew or corner chisels have the edge angled out of square to the shank .
30 The driver seemed to be playing some kind of survival game with the girls of the Navimore School : he slowed down out of courtesy to the bus stop sign , but took it no further than that .
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