Example sentences of "out of [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within sixty minutes police out of Buckingham to the west and Bletchley to the east would seal the road completely with steel barriers . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , some of these attempts have arisen out of challenges to the very notion of a discipline , through ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or ‘ modular ’ schemes . |
| 3 | A stunning collection of more than twelve million photographs recording some of the most famous events in history has been moved out of London to a new home here in the Central South Region . |
| 4 | That year he moved out of London to the Kent countryside and was henceforth mainly writing books , raising children and nursing his health . |
| 5 | It is not explicitly stated that the Miller demands to tell his tale out of spite to the Reeve . |
| 6 | Even this was in quite a congested area and from 25 October 1944 , the cars carried on , out of service to the Coombe Road crossover and reversed there . |
| 7 | Carl would scream hysterically , like a castrated pig , out of proportion to a mere arse-kick . |
| 8 | It was a show of force which appeared somewhat out of proportion to the 200 or so trade unionists who turned up outside the court . |
| 9 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 10 | But however great the wife 's contribution , the order to her should not be out of proportion to the total assets and had to do justice between the parties . |
| 11 | That raid on Berlin of the 25/26 August pulled a psychological trigger in Nazi minds , and produced results that were entirely out of proportion to the military resources employed on that particular raid . |
| 12 | The main drawback to this officer/ N.C.O./soldier ratio was that if a party was killed or taken prisoner the enemy scored a success well out of proportion to the numbers involved . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |
| 16 | Weakness out of proportion to the illness |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness . |
| 19 | Avoid very narrow raised beds , otherwise the thickness of the wall will look out of proportion to the planting area . |
| 20 | Wherever you use ALCLAD , the magnificent effect is always right out of proportion to the cost . |
| 21 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 22 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 23 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Army Department reviewed commitments in Korea and wrote to the State Department that Korea possessed ‘ little strategic value ’ in the view of the joint chiefs of staff — ‘ To apply the Truman Doctrine to Korea would require prodigious effort and vast expenditure far out of proportion to the benefits to be expected . ’ |
| 27 | Quite often something one had thought perfectly uncontroversial or even almost too insultingly obvious to include in one 's cooking instructions arouses readers to a pitch of rage and scorn which strikes one as very much out of proportion to the offence committed . |
| 28 | Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre , and out of proportion to the city 's importance . |
| 29 | To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public . |
| 30 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |