Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a danger that a freelance programmer will try to hold his client to ransom if he later realizes that the value of the software he has produced is out of all proportion to the payment he received for writing it . |
| 2 | " Every now and again you meet someone you immediately know is out of the ordinary . |
| 3 | er of being unemployed the thi Neil is the third lodger , of course tha who get 's out of the pit at about eleven o' clock in the morning ! |
| 4 | The basic requirement is for a carry flag , a one-bit processor register which is set according to whether or not carry occurs out of the accumulator during an arithmetic operation ; the carry is out of the left-hand or next to the left-hand bit position , depending on whether the left-hand bit Position participates in multiple.length arithmetic or not . |
| 5 | This animal does not hibernate , but stores food for the winter , which means that the damage it can cause is out of proportion to its diminutive size . |
| 6 | Obviously this needs to be done without undue pressure ; hammering is out of the question , and the stakes must not be broken . |
| 7 | You see a university has a wide spread of expertise and facilities , which is well beyond the finance of a small company , and even sometimes a larger company , especially when the expertise or facility required is out of the ordinary . |
| 8 | The panel design enables installation to be completed quickly and without mess , reducing the time the area being refurbished is out of use . |