Example sentences of "be out of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , you 're out of position for a late charge on the leaders , but you can only go forward from there . |
| 2 | You 're out of touch with the earth . |
| 3 | Not no we 're out of stock on that one , we 're out of stock on that one . |
| 4 | Not no we 're out of stock on that one , we 're out of stock on that one . |
| 5 | So you 're out of step with people like Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ? |
| 6 | Cutting the price of essentials will do far more to help the people who are struggling than any number of £100 reductions on clothes that are out of reach for most of us . |
| 7 | But you and your gran are out of order with your plotting . |
| 8 | Barnet have 16 professionals , but six are out of contract including £400,000 rated Gary Bull . |
| 9 | Fry says : ‘ 19 of the 20 players are out of contract at the end of the season . |
| 10 | These expressions , Ustachi or Chetnik , cover anything from guerrilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and Croats and Serbs to fight Tito , and armed and maintained by the Germans — to people who , either because they are Roman Catholics or Conservative in politics , or for whatever cause are out of sympathy with revolutionary Communism , and therefore labelled as Fascists or Nazis . |
| 11 | There are two reasons for this : first , the collection of international modern art and the British historical collections are out of proportion with one another , and if they were separated , that problem would disappear . |
| 12 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 13 | But the most exciting things of all are out of sight of the village itself . |
| 14 | The island is small , no homes are out of sight of others , even in the farmland ; people know each other well and , as in all rural communities , they also know each other 's business . |
| 15 | The rest are out of sight within the holes , incubating their eggs or brooding their young . |
| 16 | ‘ Demoralisation ’ here refers literally to the ‘ development of attitudes and habits which are out of adjustment with the dominant social codes ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Do these comments entail a total rejection of any doctrine of raison d'état , of the view that governments sometimes may , indeed should , act for reasons which are out of bounds to individuals ? |
| 19 | But when you need them , you are out of practice with drawing them forth so , by the time you 've got practised , you 're on to a new set of thoughts which needs a different extraction technique — which has to be practised ! |
| 20 | The more comparable writers we study , the less likely it is that they are out of step with the norm of the language rather than Swift . |
| 21 | This marginality is well described in Peter Wildblood 's chapter on ‘ Perry and Bella ’ in A Way of Life : ‘ the strange world of people who for one reason or another are out of step with the times ’ , or by Colin MacInnes : |
| 22 | The Charity Commissioners understand that many charities are out of step in this matter but they do wish to see matters being regularised as soon as possible . |
| 23 | If institutions are out of phase with social formation , the most powerful institution will be that which is most useful in regulating the conflict between interests which have their foundations in different modes of production — the bureaucracy . |
| 24 | What their words really imply is that they do not want to think about why they are out of breath on stairs . |
| 25 | A group of prisoners are out of jail for a few days … but the authorities know exactly where they are . |
| 26 | LIMOUSINES are out of fashion in New Delhi . |
| 27 | The case is also authority for the fact that if the premises are out of repair at the commencement of the term then the tenant would be under an obligation to repair them . |
| 28 | Highlighting these few bureaux may give the misleading impression that they are out of line with the mainstream . |
| 29 | If we say we believe God is there and that he loves us but live as if he were dead or could n't care less about us , then the beliefs we presuppose in practice are out of line with the beliefs we profess in theory , and we are bound to doubt God eventually . |
| 30 | But classes sometimes take up ‘ class positions ’ which are out of line with these interests — they form alliances with classes whose interests are antagonistic to their own , adopt strategies doomed to defeat , and so on — and the second of Poulantzas ' categories is designed to accommodate this phenomenon . |