Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He would be missed to a degree all out of proportion to his usefulness . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't suppose there 's many girls that could be that much worse than , say , Hilary Frome , ’ put in Penny , out of loyalty to her sex . |
| 5 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 6 | However , Raúl ‘ was excluded from all secret policy planning and decision-making ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 154 ) , and when he joined Fidel 's movement in July 1953 ( primarily , it seems out of loyalty to his brother rather than conviction as to the political correctness of the enterprise ) he did not tell the Communists what he was doing ( Lockwood : 1969 , p. 163 ; Szulc : 1986 , p. 181 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 9 | It was not , you went on thinking , knowing vaguely about butterflies , a future barred to the wrinkled and whitish corpses on your plate , tinged with green as if out of obedience to your grandmother 's convictions they had surrendered their essences to the cabbage . |