Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] place in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the movements in all three are classically based , they would look out of place in older classical ballets or danced to other music . |
| 2 | These last jetés would be completely out of place in Lander 's Etudes where a strong ‘ flick ’ outwards of the leading foot propels the dancer straight forwards through the air with little or no time to pause in arabesque on landing because the continuous repetition of this strong movement is intended to cover as much ground in as little time as possible . |
| 3 | Nor is the final planned dispensation of eggs out of place in a ‘ basic ritual scheme in which ‘ the cooking and eating of a Feast ’ are ‘ canonical ’ , part of a ‘ sacramental meal … through which the God passes to his resurrection ’ . |
| 4 | If Allison 's style was a little out of place in the sober , earnest world of Reith 's BBC in the 1920s , sport itself proved an immediate success at the Corporation . |
| 5 | Gentlemanly distaste for ‘ trade ’ is as out of place in sport as it is in the Conservative Party of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | It 's not even got anything to do with his hedge-trimmer pageboy cut or his Oxfam dress sense , which would n't look out of place in the background of an Inspiral Carpets video . |
| 7 | Jos was wearing yellow leather gauntlets which looked totally out of place in such a decrepit vehicle . |
| 8 | The Shepherd 's Week ( 1714 ) , though clearly a burlesque , used images of agricultural life that would not be out of place in the work of Duck or of Mary Collier . |
| 9 | Everyone was really kind , but I must admit to feeling out of place in this intimate all-female atmosphere . |
| 10 | Madras Egmore , completed in 1908 , was also in a ‘ Mughal ’ style , curiously out of place in South India . |
| 11 | Some people complained that the realistic sobbing of the Beast , slumped on the ground at the ballet 's opening and again when Beauty hurls the rose back at him , was out of place in a ballet , but it conveyed the point without needing any artificial mime — something he always tried to get away from , wanting anyone to be able to understand his work without needing to learn the conventions first . |
| 12 | The only thing out of place in their suburban show home is their sensitive young son , Michael , whose disturbing nightmares hint at the darker forces seething beneath its spotless surface … ’ |
| 13 | The contagious A Little Love sets the scene with a biting chorus , while Lonesome Cavalier and Bridge of Dreams would n't be out of place in the charts . |
| 14 | The ruins of the Cistercian Furness Abbey might seem , at first sight , out of place in a book of this kind , but in fact this was a medieval power-house of immense activity . |
| 15 | When , therefore , anything is out of place in a picturesque point of view , it excites his criticism , notwithstanding its utility in other respects . ’ |
| 16 | It is a slightly adolescent , indulgent account of a love affair — adolescent because it is redolent of a wide-eyed naivety out of place in a middle-aged man : indulgent because at times he hints that the eagles , with names like Atalanta and Melanion , may be reciprocating his feelings . |
| 17 | The wild , rhythmic drive of the first subject owes much to Shostakovich , yet the second subject would not sound out of place in a Star Trek film score , and its pseudo-oriental counter-theme is pure Hollywood . |
| 18 | They are immensely adaptable : designed for the plainer interiors of the hot south , they sit happy in stark modernist décors , but do n't look out of place in rooms stuffed with antiques . |
| 19 | It was a face out of place in the room of suburban dwellers . |
| 20 | I 'm a big , noisy fellow and had always felt out of place in those discreet British restaurants with their strict dress code and moody staff who 'd be looking at their watches every five minutes from 9pm onwards . ’ |
| 21 | The nylon material and GRP tube ‘ poles ’ will be familiar , so the shelter will not be out of place in the kite bag . |
| 22 | At the same time , he looked comfortable and not out of place in them . |
| 23 | The Mail had a regular page for women which would not be out of place in an English daily , where it may well have originated : |
| 24 | That kind of thing seems very out of place in Middle-earth . |
| 25 | The cane furniture , silver framed pictures , and extravagant , wall-mounted lighting seemed out of place in this shoddy high rise . |
| 26 | The Wisharts resumed their reading , Mrs Wishart kept glancing at the old lady — she could n't help admiring her dress , it was so Victorian and really out of place in 1945 . |
| 27 | Perfectionism is out of place in war and the practical problem was to condemn and ground those gliders which were dangerously attacked and to detect and stop the rot in those in which the attack was trivial . |
| 28 | None of them would look out of place in the local supermarket or disco . |
| 29 | I had sold the contents of the cottages to the incoming purchaser , as well as several large pieces from the melin which would have been quite out of place in a modern house . |
| 30 | Whereas the house was darkly masculine in its Victorian confidence , Miss Hatherby 's music room was so light and feminine that it seemed quite out of place in the general heaviness and gloom . |