Example sentences of "out of [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , for that matter , are they all able to make first-hand experiments with teaching style , some of them having been promoted out of contact with the pupils . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The cost of obtaining actuarial valuations for purposes of adjusting to the applicable UK accounting standard is considered to be out of proportion to the benefits to be gained . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies . |
| 6 | You can still use the linker , so long as there are some needles out of work between the needles holding the second shoulder ( and the neckline ) and the needles of the shoulder being cast off . |
| 7 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 8 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 9 | Today Mr Mendiluce will go to the Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , to urge President Alija Izetbegovic to reverse a decision to refuse further aid to the city out of sympathy with the Muslims in the east . |
| 10 | For three months she was in and out of plaster as the tendons slowly heeled . |
| 11 | Watching the pinches of flake sink out of sight into the roots I only see the rod-tip curve over out of the corner of my eye . |
| 12 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 13 | The mayor 's stall is in the choir , so at the appropriate moment the civic party rise and are escorted from the nave to the choir — and out of sight of the members of the congregation . |
| 14 | At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems . |
| 15 | It is not heart-felt , and the two opponents will happily chat away out of sight of the cameras afterwards . |
| 16 | Then they walked down there , but not out of sight of the cars . |
| 17 | We cut down to the riverbank before we reached them and walked along the water 's edge out of sight of the buildings above . |
| 18 | We walked on until we reached an unlit stretch of the Corniche , then climbed over a low wall and down the short slope to the river 's edge where we were out of sight of the sentries . |
| 19 | Out of sight of the cabins , Ellwood trod on the brake . |
| 20 | Heads roll ( though out of sight of the passengers ) if the local bus is late or the agent is lost . |
| 21 | Out of sight beyond the trees and the flat fields lay the river , marked by the tall slanting masts of moored feluccas . |
| 22 | But they forgot about him as soon as he disappeared out of sight down the steps which led to the promenade and beach . |
| 23 | Most often seen either as a long-winged rufous bird flying fast and twistingly out of sight among the trees , or in unmistakable territorial flight ( ‘ roding ’ ) . |
| 24 | Next moment their wraithlike figures had darted out of sight among the trees like two startled deer . |
| 25 | ‘ She is waiting out of sight in the woods . |
| 26 | The rest are out of sight within the holes , incubating their eggs or brooding their young . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , Soviet assessments of the more recent Polish crisis are out of tune with the lessons which have generally been drawn in the West . |
| 28 | Having entered for the shot putt and having practised by throwing half bricks at our next-door neighbour 's cat ( which happily stayed out of range of the missiles whilst becoming increasingly terrified by my ever-improving grunts ) I arrived at school feeling pretty confident . |
| 29 | The pilots stood out of range of the parings . |
| 30 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |