Example sentences of "quite out of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution . |
| 2 | Here permission was given for the construction of a large courtyard development of twenty-six houses and flats , quite out of character with the compact eighteenth-century house , in the belief that the profits yielded from the sale of the flats would go back into the house . |
| 3 | They had two children , the son , a motor engineer was forever trying to get old motorbikes to function , his greasy overalls being quite out of tune with the cleanliness of mother 's shop . |
| 4 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 5 | The PLO struck at Israeli soldiers and civilians alike , and by 1970 the Israelis were retaliating deep into Lebanon , usually against civilian targets and always with results quite out of proportion to the original Palestinian attack . |
| 6 | Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection . |
| 7 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |
| 8 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
| 9 | Mark Wait at Heffers in Cambridge commented , ‘ The work involved in collecting statistics can be quite out of proportion to the level of business being done . |
| 10 | She felt engulfed in a frozen rage quite out of proportion to the situation … |
| 11 | We have a degree of influence in the UK which is quite out of proportion to our relatively small number . |
| 12 | Special care baby units are phenomenally expensive in equipment ; there 's an awful lot of monitoring equipment that 's required , and it has to be updated every few years , and the costs are quite out of proportion to the amount of money available to the health authority , so that er , on the whole , special care baby units throughout the country now rely virtually totally on charitable giving . |
| 13 | The density of the development , achieving as it does the virtual replacement of existing static caravans practically one-for-one , is quite out of proportion with the density of surrounding settlements . |
| 14 | The scale of price rises is quite out of line with that which could plausibly be required to balance ‘ real ’ supply and demand ; and quite out of line with previous responses to fluctuations in industrial production . |
| 15 | The scale of price rises is quite out of line with that which could plausibly be required to balance ‘ real ’ supply and demand ; and quite out of line with previous responses to fluctuations in industrial production . |
| 16 | The door closed after Harriet , and Sally rifled through her wardrobe looking for a dress of mauve-sprigged white seersucker , slightly yellowed now , and quite out of place amongst the designer gowns . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Box , for example , would be quite out of place in its usual role of low , closely clipped regular border hedging , but in higher , mounded plantings it can represent distant hills or mountains . |
| 20 | And suddenly , there was Con , looking quite out of place in these surroundings , and strangely unlike himself . |