Example sentences of "[noun sg] out of [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sigmar representatives are very influential , and because they cast their votes for the same candidate they wield influence out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hence , pressure groups for the disabled , the old , neglected children and so on will exert influence out of proportion to their naked power . |
| 4 | But many of these offences are serious or sophisticated crimes , with importance out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 5 | ‘ . It remains a valetudinarian place , with baths a mile out of town to the east where plenty of people still go for treatment . |
| 6 | They tell me I must face up to my responsibilities , get my title out of hock to the moneylenders , and marry an heiress . ’ |
| 7 | Lady Alianor Woodville was tall , nearly sixty years of age , and always wore flowing gowns of unrelieved black out of deference to her deceased lord . |
| 8 | Choosing a different route out of Hobart to the rest of the fleet , the yacht quickly established a one mile lead over the nearest rival . |
| 9 | This is a beautiful section of the canal and will make an excellent route out of town to the south-west , as well as providing cycle access to Heriot-Watt campus . |
| 10 | In part out of deference to the sleepers , and in part from his own unease at saying aloud what was on his mind , Estabrook spoke in whispers . |
| 11 | Weakness out of proportion to the illness |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness . |
| 14 | Traffic out of Paris to the south-west was interrupted for about 90 minutes and trains in the southern Midi-Pyrenees region were at a standstill for seven hours . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is not explicitly stated that the Miller demands to tell his tale out of spite to the Reeve . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Luke Bouverie missed the last bus out of Woodborough to Loxford , so he thumbed a lift . |
| 19 | In the North another 200 people lost their jobs , taking the number out of work to 153,800 an unemployment rate of 11.1pc , the highest in mainland Britain . |
| 20 | UNEMPLOYMENT increased by 40,200 last month to reach its highest total for four years The increase took the number out of work to 2,647,300 figures immediately seized on by Labour and Lib-Dems and used to attack the Tory jobs record . |
| 21 | He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb . |
| 22 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 23 | off Tottenham Court Road , west London , one of ‘ the numerous streets which have been devoted time out of mind to professional people , dispensaries and boarding-houses ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 26 | When he remembers Christ condemned to carry his cross out of Jerusalem to the place of execution , he prays for compassion to identify with the sufferings of Mary , and when Christ is nailed to the cross the meditator 's awareness of the deadly processes of sin in himself appropriately obtrudes into the meditation . |